Sidney Salles

Sidney "Shimmy" Salles (actually Harry Williams ; * 1905 or 1906 in New York City , † April 17, 1941 in East Village (Manhattan) , New York City, New York ) was a character from organized crime in New York in the 1930s Years and is now included in the Kosher Nostra . He should also a member of the of Louis Buchalter led criminal organization Murder, Inc. have been.

Life

Sidney Salles was one of the union thugs and collectors of the Buchalter-Shapiro gang and was also a former accomplice of Benjamin Siegel .

Salles was believed to be involved in the murder of the disgraced "Murder, Inc." Relatives Harry Greenberg, who was shot in Los Angeles in November 1939 . Benjamin Siegel and Frankie Carbo had to stand trial for the murder in September 1941. The former contract killers Albert Tannenbaum and Abe Reles appeared as witnesses.

On April 17, 1941 an indictment of thwarting Salles was brought against him and he was put up for investigation. Salles is said to have been involved in preventing the prosecution of Louis Buchalter. Twelve hours later, a masked perpetrator killed Salles with five shots in the head on a busy Manhattan street in the presence of numerous passers-by.

The police did not succeed in solving Salles' murder. It was assumed that Salles, because of his role and complicity in the Harry Greenberg case, posed a threat to the other participants, Benjamin Siegel and Frankie Carbo, who had to answer in court a few months later, and they therefore ordered his death. However, despite the testimony of Tannenbaum and Reles, the two could not be convicted. Even before his judicial questioning, the latter died by falling out of his hotel room window. The exact circumstances of his death remain controversial to this day.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ POLICE SCOUR UNDERWORLD FOR 'SHIMMY' SLAYER , The Brooklyn Daily Eagle , April 18, 1941, p. 1