"Marty King, No. 1 in Picture 1289 was employed as pay-off cashier on the games. Frank Milano kept the payroll for the men who were employed on the race track part of the business and he paid them each day. One of the duties which I performed was to pay all bills incurred through the conduct of the business, such as bills for electric light, 'phone, gas, petty expenses, the General News Bureau for wire service, etc. I paid rent to Ed Freeman, who owned the building The Ship was in, and two Greek men (Giancakes and Tempoulous), who owned the building where The Subway was located. We were out of Lauderbachs for a long time, then went back and had to pay $300.00 rent before we could start the business again. When we left the basement (The Subway) we owed the landlords (two Greeks) rent for about six months. I bought tickets, a series of numbers, for use in the business from Bentley Murray Company most of the time but on a few occasions I bought the tickets from the Simplex Ticket Company. These tickets contained a number and when a customer made a bet a record of the bet was made on the sheet retained by the house and the number was placed in that record. The ticket bearing that number was given to the customer for his identification in the event that the horse on which he had bet won the race, and he was entitled to collect a winning bet. The telegraph operators employed to receive the race information and results over the wire from the General News Bureau were Jimmie Stanton and Joe Funk. All employees in the establishments were paid in cash each day. Cashier's checks were not used by me in paying off the winners of the bets. I do not remember of any time, after Jimmie Mundi discontinued in Cicero that Ralph Capone, Jack Guzik, Frank Nitto or Al Capone made any bets on the horses. On frequent occasions Ralph Capone and Jack Guzik would ask me how the business was getting along and I would tell them whether it was good, bad or fair. I do not how who supplied the money which was used by me as the original 'bank roll' or for the operation of the business.
"When I first went to work in Cicero, about the latter part of 1924 or early in 1925, I was employed by Jimmie Mundi, who was operating the Gambling house known as The Ship. I acted as cashier and took care of all the money. While working for Mundi, I had a bank account in my own name in the Pinkert State Bank and also a safe deposit box in the Pinkert State Bank, and they were used by me to deposit the funds from the gambling business. This bank account and the safe deposit box were not used by me for my personal funds and they do not represent or reflect any transactions in which I was personally financially
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