"interested except that I was employed by Mundi and the convenient way to handle the money was by a bank account and a safety deposit box. While I was working for Mundi in The Ship, about the early part of 1927, he, Jimmie, told me that Al Brown had declared himself in on the joint known as The Ship, that Al Brown and his bunch were taking over the operation of the gambling business. Very shortly after Al Brown and his gang had declared themselves in on The Ship, Jimmie left for California. The place we called The Ship was formerly known as the Hawthorn Smoke Shop. Just previous to Mundi's departure for California I turned over to Mundi the cash which I had in the safe deposit box in the Pinkert Bank. It was about $4,500.00. The funds in that box represented money which had been used in the operation of the gambling business at The Ship and it belonged to the business. It was necessary from time to time to move the gambling business from place to place in order that we might not be disturbed in the operation of the business and just before Jimmie's departure we had to move to the place known as The Subway. About the time Al Brown declared himself in on the gambling business and a short time after Mundi left for California, Ralph Brown, whom I later knew to be Ralph Capone, appeared, and Ralph announced to the employees that Pete Penovich was to be the new manager and would have charge of the business in the future. Penovich then declared that all the persons who had been employed in the gambling house under Mundi were out or discharged, and informed them to wait around until he called the names of the persons who would be reemployed by him for the new syndicate which was taking over the business. Penovich called out my name and I was reemployed by the new owners. Under the new syndicate my duties were the same as they had been when I was employed by Mundi. Many of the persons who had been working for Mundi were reemployed but Mundi's chauffeur, his brother-in-law, and same of his friends or men who had been with Mundi for a long time were not reemployed. A day or two after the new syndicate took over the gambling business Jack Guzik appeared at the place where we were operating and instructed me to turn over the surplus funds earned in the business to Bobbie Barton whenever he sent Bobbie to get the money and he said that when Bobbie telephoned to me informing me that he (Bobbie) was coming to the gambling house for the surplus funds that I should turn the money over to Bobbie. I decided that instead of turning the surplus cash over to Bobbie that it would be better for me to purchase cashier's checks at the Pinkert Bank with the surplus earnings of the place and turn over the cashier's checks to Bobbie which accounts for the large number
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