RITCHIE: We’re in 1931 in Bradford, and bootlegger Al Ritchie has been gunned down, naming Tony Lorenzo as his killer on his deathbed.

Next comes an investigation.

“State policemen Corporal Marcus White and Private Michael Zerbe came here and along with County Detective JJ Allison and city police, began an investigation.

They seek Tony Lorenzo, aged 37, an employee of Colella Brothers bakery, who has been in Bradford but four months.

Lorenzo, described as being 5 feet 6 inches in height, weighing 200 pounds, dressed in a panama hat, brown suit and black and white shoes with a woman tattooed on each arm, and with black hair worn pompadour, is missing.

Lorenzo, according to report given police, has been around Salamanca and came here four months ago without a job. He is said to have told Guy Colella of his difficulty and being buddies in the Italian army, was given a job at the bakery at $15 per week.

A search of Lorenzo’s room disclosed, officers say, that he had not planned to remain here. There were few clothes found, a suitcase and some letters written in Italian, These will be translated. Lorenzo is said to have a wife and two children in Italy.

The murder of Al Ritchie yesterday makes more than a dozen, it is said, which have occurred in the Olean-Salamanca-Bradford district within the past 12 months, attributed to bootleg and gang war.

Ritchie led a ‘charmed’ life, it was said, as he continued to evade gunmen through to have been sent here to ‘get’ him. He was shot in Olean in August 1929 as he was starting his car in North Union Street. At that time his assailants drove up in a touring car with curtains down, and discharged a shotgun into his car. His bending over to turn on the ignition saved him, the slugs missing vital spots. Several of the pellets struck him in the face and left shoulder.”

We’ll wrap up the story of Ritchie tomorrow.