The Cold Six Thousand - James Ellroy [92]
They tossed Hank in. Hank broke the glass. Hank crashed Zeniths and RCAs.
The Pensacola Trib/third column/page 2: BIZARRE SUICIDE. LOCAL MAN dives to death.
Chuck flew to Houston. Pete drove to Vegas. Pete sloughed off Hank K. Hank was male. Hank knew the rules. Hank got no gender relief.
Pete killed time. Pete palled with the cat. Pete palled with Wayne. They caught Barb’s gigs. They sat ringside. Wayne dug on Barb. Wayne played it straight. Wayne honored women that way.
6/14/64: Guy Banister dies. It’s heart attack #4. Chuck calls. Chuck gloats. Chuck explicates.
Carlos said, “Kill him.” Chuck employed excess digitalis.
Chuck laughed. Chuck said, “Don’t be hurt. Carlos wanted to give you a rest.”
DOCUMENT INSERT: 6/30/64. Confidential Report. From: Farlan D. Moss. Submitted to: Pete Bondurant. Topic: “Criminal Activities of Eldon Lowell Peavy (White Male/46), the Monarch Cab Business & the Golden Cavern Hotel-Casino/with Index of Known Criminal Associates.”
Mr. Bondurant,
As promised, my report & attached rap sheet carbons on Subject Peavy’s KAs. As we discussed, please make no copies and destroy upon reading.
OWNERSHIP & LICENSE/TAX STATUS OF
LEGITIMATELY OWNED BUSINESSES
Subject PEAVY is the sole owner of the Monarch Cab Company (1st Clark County Licensed 9/1/55), the Golden Cavern Hotel-Casino (Nevada Gaming Commission licensed 6/8/57), the “Sid the Surplus Sergeant” Store (business license transferred to Subject PEAVY 12/16/60) & the Cockpit Cocktail Lounge in Reno (Nevada liquor license #6044/dated 2/12/58). (Note: Said lounge is a homosexual meeting place.) All of Subject PEAVY’s state & local operating licenses are up-to-date & in good standing, as are his Federal, state & county (Clark/Washoe) business taxes, personal taxes, property taxes, workers compensation fund taxes & his registering of ex-convicts in his employ. Subject PEAVY (no doubt eager to guard his reputation & retain his seats on the Nevada Gaming Control Board & Clark County Liquor & Control Board) is a scrupulous record keeper & observer of official business codes.
ILLEGAL ON-SITE ACTIVITIES (PER ABOVE BUSINESSES)
Subject PEAVY’s four businesses sustain criminal enterprises & serve as gathering spots for known criminals & homosexuals. All four are police-agency protected, which should serve to hinder you in your takeover strategy. The Cockpit Lounge (protected by Washoe County Sheriff’s Dept.) is a distribution point for homosexual pornography (films & photographs), Mexican-made fetish paraphernalia & amyl nitrite vials pilfered from the Washoe County Medical Center. Male prostitutes congregate on the premises & the pay phones are used as contact points for a “Date-A-Boy” service run by Cockpit bartenders RAYMOND “GAY RAY” BIRNBAUM (white male/39/see rap sheet index) & GARY DE HAVEN (white male/28/see index). Subject PEAVY allegedly receives a percentage of all profits accrued from felonious enterprises conducted on the Cockpit premises.
The “Sid the Surplus Sergeant” Store (521 E. Fremont) serves as a pick-up point for male prostitutes working out of the Glo-Ann Motel (604 E. Fremont) and as a contact point for “Chicken Hawks” (older or married homosexual men who prey on young boys) attempting to instigate assignations. Losing gamblers & male UNLV students anxious to earn money congregate in the parking lot & sleep in their cars there in hope of promoting “dates.” The store manager, SAMMY “SILK” FERRER (white male/44/also a Monarch cab driver/see rap sheet index), permits said “dates” to occur in back rooms on the store premises & often surreptitiously films them thru hidden wall peeks. FERRER compiles film footage, edits it into pornographic “loops” & sells said “loops” out of the Hunky Monkey Bar, a notorious establishment catering to “rough trade” homosexuals. FERRER & Subject PEAVY also screen pornographic films (homosexual & heterosexual content) in back rooms on the premises. This is a recreational activity for Monarch Cab personnel & their favored customers. (Note: Actors ROCK HUDSON & SAL MINEO & ex-heavyweight