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Anna Margaret Urbas was a friend of Eugene Moran, who was a bodyguard of Arnold Rothstein. She was murdered because she knew too much about the underworld, particularly the principal figures in a feud between Rothstein and Jack Diamond (gangster). Urbas was the sixth murder victim in the criminal dispute. Also known as Mrs. Rice, Urbas' body was recovered from the East River at 155th Street (Manhattan) in May 1930. ==Pursued by law enforcement== Moran's cremated corpse was discovered in a car in a dump in Newark, New Jersey, in August 1929. Rothstein died from a bullet wound he received in the Park Central Hotel in November 1928. Urbas was sought for information relating to the only survivor among three criminals who transported Moran to Newark. A dentist from New Jersey identified Urbas from a plate in her upper jaw and charts in his office. The same dentist identified Moran by his teeth. Dick Fuqua, of 4322 40th Street in Long Island, and Andy Gatto, of 130 West 47th Street, Manhattan, New York, corroborated the dentist's identification. Fuqua had last seen Urbas on February 26, 1930. Urbas was last seen alive on March 24, 1930, after departing a taxi. She met a woman named Martha at Madison Avenue and 86th Street (Manhattan). She related to this woman that she was going to the Bronx to live. A deputy police chief in Newark disclosed Moran's identification on March 21, 1930. Police surmised that Urbas must have been killed in March, judging from the condition of her corpse, which was bound tightly with wires.〔 Weights had been wired to her neck.〔 and she had been strangled.〔''Will Query Gangster On Woman's Slaying'', New York Times, September 25, 1930, pg. 28.〕 Urbas was trailed by police to West Virginia as she quickly fled following Moran's demise. They lost her but picked up her trail again in Weehauken, New Jersey. She lived there briefly at 36 6th Street, prior to disappearing again. While in Weehauken Urbas purchased a twenty-year endowment policy〔 worth $1,000〔 from Prudential Financial, Inc.. Her mother, Mary Urbas, of Cleveland, Ohio, was made the beneficiary. Departing Weehauken on February 21, police found her next in Long Island City, where she resided with a taxi driver. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anna Margaret Urbas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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