Description: Police interview with Polly Gould, together with surveillance recordings taken in Gould’s Los Angeles apartment, collected as evidence in an investigation about the formation of a statewide vice racket with connections to organized crime in Nevada and on the East Coast. Gould was an associate of Jim Utley, a Los Angeles gangster who was helping to organize the ring. Chief Homicide Inspector Frank Ahern, together with Chief Inspector James English, led the investigation. The recordings name politicians, celebrities, and other prominent persons who were implicated. Topics include gambling, extortion, and other crimes. San Francisco gangster Bones Remmer is also involved. The story broke in the press in April 1950.
Part 1 is the police interview, possibly with Frank Ahern, reading from notes he has gathered over several weeks. Part 2 is a telephone conversation between Polly Gould and Jim Utley. Parts 3 and 4 record a conversation between Gould and Utley in Gould’s apartment.
Additional Description: Note on original container of t1: PG from LA
Collection: Finding aid to the Thomas J. Cahill papers