Real Life Unsolved Murder of NYC Gangster Arnold Rothstein as Featured in Godfather II Movie, Big George Did It For Dutch

ARNOLD ROTHSTEIN MURDER SUSPECT IS NAMED TO POLICE BY WOMAN WITNESS; Ruth Keyes Partly Identifies Gunman's Picture as Man She Saw in NYC Hotel Room Sunday Nov 4th, 1928. PLACES BIG GEORGE McMANUS BY PHOTO, He Is Sought Over Nation, Detectives Doubt Murder Was His Intent. For the first time since they began their investigation into the shooting of Arnold Rothstein, the gambler, in the Park Central Hotel on the night of Sunday, Nov. 4, 1928, the police started in quest of a suspect as the slayer. Their quest began when Mrs. Ruth Keyes, a cloak model made an photo ID of man she saw in room 349, big George McManus. Park Central chamber maid Bridget Farry also saw George McManus in Room 349 on the night of the murder, Sunday Nov 4th, 1928. 

Art imitates life. In the movie Godfather II Hyman Roth is shot in the stomach by an assassin with a .38 caliber revolver, Roth is a Jewish mobster. In real life Arnold Rothsten is shot in the stomach by an assassin with a .38 caliber revolver, Rothstein is a Jewish mobster. Fictional Hyman Roth's background is supplied in a deleted scene in The Godfather Part II. In the scene, set in Little Italy, New York in the early 1920s, Hyman is working as a car mechanic. He is noticed by Peter Clemenza, who is calling him "Johnny Lips". Clemenza introduces him to Vito Corleone, who suggests that he change his name, which was originally Hyman Suchowsky. When Vito asks Hyman whom he admires, Suchowsky says Arnold Rothstein, for having fixed the 1919 World Series; accordingly, Hyman changes his last name to Roth.

Arnold Rothstein ran the speakeasies in New York City during the 1920's, he got a cut of the action for protection from police, paying them off to keep the underground bars in business from 1921 till the day he was shot on Sunday Nov 4th, 1928. Arnold Rothstein was the paramount fixer, a smooth operator, one who acted as go-between in business contracts with the city, in the quashing of arrests, in extralegal "permissions to operate speakeasies" and other criminal enterprises, and in other bargainings that paid off politicians and police. Arnold Rothstein was an American racketeer, crime boss, businessman, and gambler in New York City until his assassination Nov 4th 1928. Arnold Rothstein was gunned down at the Park Central Hotel 56th and 7th Avenue Manhattan, a .38 caliber detective special Colt revolver was found outside on the street by taxi driver Al Bender.
November 4, 1928, late at night, a telephone call came in to Lindy’s restaurant, on Broadway. Caller asked to speak with Arnold Rothstein, he took the call, returned moments later and handed a long-barreled, pearl-handled pistol to his associate, James Meehan. He parted ways with Meehan and ventured to the Park Central Hotel and headed to Room 349 and a big stakes poker game without a gun or a bodyguard. Abe Attell served Rothstein well as his bodyguard but was not here in room 349 on Sunday Nov 4.  

Around 11:10 p.m. someone shot Rothstein in the stomach, a single shot from a Colt .38 caliber revolver. The gun was thrown out the window of the Hotel room into 7th Ave. A Park Central Hotel maid saw Rothstein stumbling and bleeding badly at a hotel service door before collapsing. An ambulance rushed him to Polyclinic Hospital, where surgeons struggled to remove the slug and perform a blood transfusion, he died two days later. Rothstein was set up, this was a mob hit! Who would stand to gain millions if Rothstein was out of the picture? Dutch Schultz had been mentored by Arnold Rothstein, but Rothstein could not abide by Dutch Schultz's very violent ways. Instead Rothstein turned all his attention to another mobster who he had mentored, Lucky Luciano, and took him under his wing. In his book Kill the Dutchman!, a biography of Dutch Schultz published in 1971, the crime reporter Paul Sann suggested that Dutch Schultz had Arnold Rothstein murdered. He says this was in retaliation for the murder of Schultz's friend and associate Joey Noe by Rothstein's protégé Jack "Legs" Diamond.

“Who shot A.R.?" Cops in NYC did not try too hard to solve the murder of Arnold Rothstein, as too many politicians and police brass would be hit if they did. Arnold Rothstein's associates include Charlie “Lucky” Luciano, Meyer Lansky, Dutch Schultz, and Jack “Legs” Diamond. Prohibition helped Rothstein reach new heights of power and income. Rothstein was quicker than some of his mobster colleagues to see the huge profits that could come from illegal sales of banned alcohol in speakeasies. Notably, although Rothstein was often considered a professional, even corporate, member of the Mob, he was also unafraid to use his connections with violent New York City street gangs to further his business interests. The Hotel Metropole opened in 1910 at 147 West 43rd Street and became a nightlife nexus of the Tenderloin district known as Satan’s Circus. Owned by Tammany Hall power broker, Big Tim Sullivan, The Metropole boasted a 24 hour liquor license and a casino managed by Arnold Rothstein. Arnold Rothstein, the Brain of Broadway, managed Big Tim’s gambling parlor on the second floor. 

The opulent Metropole casino featured faro tables and roulette wheels. Some of the biggest crap games New York City history went down in the Metropole. It was also in the Metropole where Abe Attell, a former champion featherweight boxer, caught the attention of Arnold Rothstein becoming "The Brain’s" bagman and enforcer. Abe Attell served Rothstein well as his bodyguard and the go between during fixing of the 1919 World Series, insulating the gangster from criminal prosecution, serving as a go between for Rothstein and the Chicago White Sox's players, who all originally met at the Ansonia Hotel at 2109 Broadway at W 73rd Street in September 1919. Baseball super star Babe Ruth coincidentally moved into the Ansonia Hotel at 2109 Broadway at W 73rd Street with his wife in November 1919

At a poker game in September 1928 , Arnold Rothstein lost $320,000 and then refused to pay George McManus on the grounds that the game had been rigged. George "Hump" McManus was a bookmaker and gambler in New York City. Two months later, his gambling buddy, big George "Hump" McManus invited Rothstein to play what would be his final poker game on November 4th. Around 11:10 p.m. someone shot Rothstein in the stomach, a single shot from a Colt .38 caliber revolver. Asked who had shot him before dying, Rothstein reportedly put his finger to his lips, keeping the gangsters’ code of silence. McManus was later tried and acquitted of the crime. 

Arnold Rothstein's was killed in November 1928. A succession of murders followed including the Coral Gables, Florida murder of Fatty Walsh, formerly one of Rothstein's bodyguards. Dutch Schultz formed a gang with friend and fellow criminal Joey Noe to run the speakeasies in NYC. The group soon expanded its operations from the Bronx into Manhattan, but this led to a territorial conflict with Legs Diamond. On October 16, 1928 Joey Noe was shot several times outside the Chateau Madrid, a speakeasy at 231 West 54th by members of Legs Diamond's gang. Dutch Schultz is believed to have ordered the killing of Legs Diamond's associate and mentor Arnold Rothstein in retaliation on November 4th, 1928 by big George "Hump" McManus. Joey Noe seriously wounded, his wounds became infected and he died on November 21, 1928. In further retaliation by Dutch, on October 12, 1930 Legs Diamond was shot and wounded at the Hotel Monticello 35-37 West 64th Street on Manhattan’s West Side, he survived. Legs Diamond met a bitter end reportedly at the hands of Dutch Schultz's thugs. Legs Diamond killed on December 18, 1931, two men entered the room he was staying in and shot him 3 times in the head.

NYC Det. Joseph A. Daly, was the lead detective in the Arnold Rothstein unsolved murder for a number of years until his retirement in 1928. Det. Joe Daly one of the city's best known detectives, died March 6 1938 at St. Elizabeth's Hospital, 190th Street and Fort Washington Avenue New York City, after an abdominal operation. He was 58 years old. Who shot Rothstein? No one involved was in the mood to ever discuss the case, but someone finally did. Someone wrestled the gun out of the shooter's hand and flung it through the window onto Seventh Avenue. One night, a drunken McManus revealed, "I did it, you know. I was the one who gave it to Rothstein, (on Sunday Nov 4th, 1928)." 

George McManus also talked to his old associates, confiding details of how he shot A. R. He either told Titanic Thompson directly, or Thompson heard it from people McManus had spoken with. McManus tried reason. Now he rushed to a table and pulled out a revolver and shouted, "A. R., I got nothing against you, but I'm being held responsible for something you are supposed to be taking care of. And I don't like that. I'm not asking you to make those I. 0. U.'s good; I'm telling you. Goddamn you, Rothstein, pay the money." A. R. pleaded. "I'm gonna pay; don't worry. I just need a little more time." "You've already had time," McManus spat back. "Time's up. Come up with the money. Now." And with that, George McManus shot Arnold Rothstein. 

A.R. Murdered: Big George McManus didn't mean to do it. His big drunken Irish temper had erupted. He reached for his gun, pulled the trigger, and accidentally let A. R. have it. Frank and Tom McManus and Gillie Biller knew they hadn't fired any shots. Big George was in trouble. George McManus was the most famous member of his family, an irony because the McManuses were actually a police family. Frank worked in the Children's Court system. Tom had reached the rank of detective before retiring. Another brother, Stephen, remained on the force, holding detective rank. Their father, Detective Sergeant Charles McManus, had been one of Inspector Thomas F. Byrnes' "Forty Immortals," an elite corps of nineteenth-century crime stoppers.

Who had the most to gain in the murder of Arnold Rothstein a mobster Boss? Frank Erickson, Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel and other associates split up Arnold Rothstein's various "enterprises" after his murder in November 1928, but hothead Dutch Schultz got nothing, why? Had Arnold Rothstein not been killed there is no doubt he would have eventually come into conflict with his proteges like Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky. In the early 1920's, at a bar mitzvah, Meyer Lansky met Arnold Rothstein, the flamboyant gambler involved in fixing the 1919 World Series, and Lansky soon became one of Rothstein's protege. During Prohibition they made a fortune in bootlegging while dealing in heroin as well. What part did Dutch Schultz have in orchestrating Arnold Rothstein's murder? Did Rothstein's killer big George McManus get a contract to kill Rothstein from Dutch Schultz?  

Legendary mob kingpins such as dutch Schultz,  Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Seigel, and Charles “Lucky” Luciano have come to dominate gangster lore, but it was Arnold Rothstein who, in the early years of the twentieth century, put the “organization” in organized crime. Rothstein was the first to treat his criminal dealings as “big business,” with attention paid to every detail. Long before his exploits were immortalized in the HBO series Boardwalk Empire, the notorious crime boss served as inspiration for the shady Meyer Wolfsheim in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Nicknamed “the Brain,” Rothstein was a gambler, racketeer, bootlegger, and drug lord who quickly rose through the ranks of New York’s Jewish mafia, he was a Boss. Only another mobster Boss would have dared to kill or orchestrate the murder of Arnold Rothstein, big George McManus was a pawn, a patsy for Dutch Schultz.

December 5th, 1929, Big George A. McManus not guilty in murder of mobster Arnold Rothstein, freed by the jury in what appears to have been a "kangaroo court", bought and paid for. The New York County District Attorney Joab H. Banton told the press that "our witnesses lied on the stand," "we can't prosecute them for perjury because we do not know the truth in the Rothstein murder"! The murder of Arnold Rothstein became another unsolved mystery with the directed acquittal of George A. McManus. Typical of the Rothstein case was the incident that happened in a Greenwich Village speakeasy a few days after the McManus case opened in court. Juror No 9 one Norris Smith visited this bar (Court approved jurors freedom of the city during proceedings) and Norris Smith talked volubly with Newspapermen about the McManus case, (what the hell?)

They didn't mean to do it, Big George McManus and Rube Allyn: Just like the unsolved murder of Mayor Harry Higel in Siesta Key Fl on Friday Jan 7th, 1921 where the obvious murderer Rube Allyn killed Higel during a pistol whipping with a Colt revolver and was cleared, Arnold Rothstein's killer Big George McManus shot him with a Colt revolver at the Park Central Hotel on Sunday November 4th, 1928 and he too was cleared. Rube Allyn and Big George McManus were cleared of murder due to political connections and a tainted jury. Rube Allyn and Big George McManus both had an Irish Heritage and often drunk. Rube Allyn and Big George McManus were both large powerful men who drank too much with big drunken Irish tempers and became extremely violent when so. The fix was in for killers Rube Allyn and Big George McManus who both had political connections and a license to kill in the 1920's.


Bill Warner Private Investigator Sarasota 941-926-1926 - Cheaters and Child Custody Cases, website https://www.wbipi.com/

MURDER & ARSON: Mega Mansion Built North End of Gulfmead Dr Siesta Key Sits at Historic Site of Former Sarasota Mayor Harry Higel's HigelHurst Hotel.

MURDER & ARSON: Mega Mansion Built at North End of Gulfmead Dr Siesta Key Sits at Historic Site of Former Sarasota Mayor Harry Higel's HigelHurst Hotel. Mr Higel was murdered and the Hotel subject of arson and was burnt to the ground. Bad Ju Ju here. Three time former Sarasota Mayor Harry Higel had built his Higelhurst Hotel in 1915 at the very north tip of Gulfmead Dr on Siesta Key Fl, the Higelhurst Hotel faced Big Pass and Lido Beach. The Higelhurst Hotel on the North tip of Siesta Key was at the entrance to Big Pass on Sarasota Bay with an unobstructed view of the Gulf of Mexico and directly across from Lido Beach. The Higelhurst Hotel was burned down (arson) on Friday March 30th, 1917, the north bridge to the island was not yet open.

The Higelhurst Hotel a large two story structure with wrap around porch located at the far north end of Gulfmead Dr was near the site where former Sarasota Mayor Harry Higel was murdered early on Friday morn Jan 7th, 1921, at the corner of Siesta Dr and Higel Ave Siesta Key Fl, the case remains unsolved. Nefarious Siesta Key neighbor Rube Allyn, who also lived at far north end of Gulfmead Dr, is believed to be the person who torched the Higelhurst Hotel early on Friday morn March 30th, 1917 and murdered Harry Higel on Friday morn Jan 7th, 1921, I have no doubt of these facts. This property is now classified as residential, and no, Hollywood movie star Leonardo DiCaprio did not buy any waterfront property on the far north end of Siesta Key Fl. The house that was constructed at the north end of Gulfmead Dr Siesta Key Fl appears to be at least a massive 22,000 square feet structure with impressive views of the Gulf of Mexico, Big Pass, the City of Sarasota, Bird Key, and Lido Key.

photo credit Higelhurst Hotel Manatee County Historical Society. 

Manatee County Map Shows Sarasota Mayor Harry Higel's Higelhurst Hotel at far north end of Siesta Key near Fishery Point. The large two story white Higelhurst Hotel was at the very north end of what is now Gulfmead Dr on Siesta Key Fl. A huge white mega mansion was built at the exact same spot. On the map seen above, SARASOTA BAY in 1916 later became ROBERTS BAY. SARASOTA KEY on the map to the far left in 1916 later became LIDO KEY. Arson suspect and Harry Higel murder suspect Rube Allyn also lived at the very north end of Gulfmead Dr next to the HigelHurst hotel. The map of Siesta Key as of 1916 shows the Higelhurst Hotel towards the far north end of Gulfmead Dr Siesta Key Fl. 

 

If a Movie was ever cast for the Unsolved Murder of Harry Higel on Siesta Key Fl, Leonardo DiCaprio would be a shoe in for the tall, erratic, hard drinking Irish newsman Rube Allyn character. Dirty Politics, Anti-German Sentiment in America, Passenger Ship Sunk by German U Boat in Atlantic, Higelhurst Hotel arson on Siesta Key, America in WWI against the Germans, Prohibition, unsavory Private Investigators in St Pete, Unsolved Harry Higel Murder on Siesta Key, Rigged Manatee County Grand Jury, and finally a buried loaded gun with a broken grip found 100 Years Later on Siesta Key that appears to link to Higel's pistol whipping murder. You can't make this stuff up, it all really happened. Hollywood movie star Leonardo DiCaprio, I am sure, will one day discover Siesta Key Fl and build a house on the water.

In 1915 Harry Higel applied for the Siesta Post Office, Margaret O'Berry was appointed postmistress and Higel established the actual post office inside the Higelhurst Hotel on North Siesta Key Fl. In the late 1890's and early 1900's it was not uncommon for a rural post office to be located inside a Hotel or secure building. Between 1911 and 1913, Bayou Hansen, Bayou Nettie, and Bayou Louise were dredged and canals were created. In 1912, Harry Higel's Gulf Bay Land Company re-platted “Siesta Key on the Gulf,” opened Hanson Bayou to Big Pass, and began building roads, sidewalks, and bungalows.

Story of Unsolved Murder of Harry Higel (by Rube Allyn) and the arson of the Higelhurst Hotel (by Rube Allyn) all on Siesta Key reads like a script for an action/drama movie. It would be a period piece, set from 1913 to 1921 in Sarasota and South West Fl. The story includes Dirty Politics, Dueling Mayors, Failed Newspaper in Sarasota, Prohibition, WWI, Unsavory Private Investigators in St Pete, Murder on Siesta Key and a Bradenton Fl Kangaroo Court. 

Back story on Higelhurst Hotel arson was Harry Higel's link to Germany and even the Hotel name 'Hurst' links to a region in Germany. Higelhurst Hotel was torched on March 30th, 1917 (by Rube Allyn), 3 days later On April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson went before a joint session of Congress to request a declaration of war against Germany which was granted, Rube Allyn was ecstatic. Then 4 days later the United States declared war on the German Empire on April 6, 1917, nearly three years after World War I started. Rube Allyn was a war hawk and hated Germans. Rube wanted to join the Army when he was in his 50's to go and kill Germans in 1917.

According to an article in the Tampa Tribune on March 30 1017,  the HigelHurst Hotel was a two story building and had an old fashioned Virginia portico extending all along the West front of the building facing Big Pass and what is now Lido beach. Much like how the new "Mega Mansion" built on the old hotel grounds is facing, what goes around comes around. HigelHurst Hotel on north end of Siesta Key Fl was burned down on March 30th, 1917, Rube Allyn was a person of interest in the apparent arson of the Hotel. Rube Allyn hated his Siesta Key neighbor Harry Higel and Higel's German heritage. Anti-German sentiment in America was strong in 1917, being anti-German became a way of showing patriotism for the American war effort. 3 days after the Higelhurst Hotel was torched on March 30th 1917 President Wilson declared war against Germany and America entered WWI. President Woodrow Wilson's request to Congress for a declaration of war On April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson asks Congress to send U.S. troops into battle against Germany in World War I. "Hotel Higelhurst’s proximity to Rube Allyn’s property have led some to believe he was responsible for the devastating fire, as well as Harry Higel’s murder", Jeff LaHurd said he is a local historian who oversees the Sarasota County History Center.

 

The Higelhurst Hotel was on the beach at the entrance to Big Pass and 50 yards from the water. The Higelhurst Hotel and dock were burned down on Friday morn March 30th 1917, Rube Allyn was a person of interest in the arson of the Higelhurst Hotel that stood at the entrance of Big Pass and facing Sarasota Bay. The Hotel caretaker Mrs Mueller left the Higelhurst Hotel on Thursday afternoon March 29th 1917 for Sarasota where she spent the evening with friends. The Higelhurst Hotel which was located at the very north end of Siesta Key, was empty and vacant when torched on March 30th 1917, Rube Allyn lived next door on Gulmead Dr and hated Harry Higel who lived directly across Bayou Louise on the north end of Higel Ave.

Newspaper articles about the Higelhurst Hotel on fire March 30th, 1917 told of how Harry Higel was standing on the Bayfront where Marina Jacks is now and tears where running down his face as he watched his magnificent Higelhurst Hotel at the very north end of Siesta Key burn to the ground. A month later in April 1917, the north bridge to the key was completed, which may have allowed enough time for the fire department to save the building. Rube Allyn was there on the north end of Siesta Key in the early morn of Friday March 30th 1917 when the Higelhurst hotel was torched. Rube Allyn was also the one and only suspect in the brutal pistol whipping of Harry Higel on the north end of Siesta Key on Friday morn January 7th, 1921 that led to Mr Higel's death. Rube Allyn was arrested but a "kangaroo Grand Jury" made up of Rube's newspaper pals and drinking buddies, failed to indict on March 10th, 1021.

Harry Higel's Hotel HigelHurst on Siesta Key opened its doors on March 9, 1915, with more than 200 people attending the grand opening reception. Since the bridge to the key was not finished, ferry boats provided transportation to the hotel about 3 miles in a direct line from the Sarasota wharf, (a man-made structure on Sarasota Bay which provided an area for ships to safely dock), which later became Marian Jacks. The Hotel was burned down on Friday morn March 30th 1917, Rube Allyn was a person of interest in the arson. The caretaker Mrs Mueller left the Hotel on Thursday afternoon March 29th 1917 for Sarasota where she spent the evening with friends. 

The Hotel was empty and vacant, Rube Allyn lived nearby and hated Harry Higel. Rube was there on Siesta Key in the early morn of Friday March 30th 1917 when the hotel was torched. The Higelhurst Hotel on N Siesta Key was overlooking Big Pass with an unobstructed view of the Gulf of Mexico directly across from Lido Beach. The Higelhurst Hotel was on the beach less than 50 yards to the Big Pass waters. The very north end of Bayou Louise was behind the Higelhurst Hotel.

"The Smoking Gun Buried on Siesta Key", Colt Revolver Verified by Sheriff as Possible Link to Murder of Sarasota Mayor Harry Higel. As in other kinds of pistol-whipping, the scalp wounds may be associated with fractures of the skull and even with brain contusions. Twelve Months ago on November 26th, 2019 I turned into the Sarasota County Sheriff Department a loaded gun that appears to have been buried for decades on Siesta Key Fl. I have not reveled the results of the Sheriff Departments investigation concerning the old, rusted, and corroded parts of an antique small frame Colt Police positive revolver (over 100 years old) on Siesta Key buried near a salt water canal off of Higel Ave sometime in 1921, until today. On 3/24/2020 The Sarasota County Sheriff report further states by writer: "I retrieved the weapon from Property and inspected it's parts. Upon review and through my own independent research, I believe, as reported by Warner, these parts are to a Colt revolver produced in the early 1900's".

The Herald Tribune Newspaper in Sarasota did an article about the Higel murder, "100 years later, the murder of popular Sarasota mayor Harry Higel remains unsolved", by Billy Cox, Jan 7th, 2021. The Herald Tribune pointed out that "on March 9, 1921, Rube Allyn was released after a grand jury deliberated for 10 minutes. Sarasota private investigator Bill Warner claims on his website the jury was filled with Allyn’s “newspaper pals and drinking buddies.” Bill Warner says Higel’s injuries are consistent with a pistol-whipping; in fact, he says rusted fragments of a .32 caliber pocket Colt revolver – manufactured between 1907 and 1922 – were recovered near a Givens Street canal in November 2019. He says the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office confirmed the make and the approximate time range of its manufacture. “You’d never throw away a revolver like that with six live bullets in it unless you’d committed a crime,” Bill Warner says. Like I said this story looks like a script for a block buster movie. see https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/local/sarasota/2021/01/07/sarasota-mayor-harry-higels-murder-remains-unsolved-100-years-later/6564394002/

New Book in Process Solves the Murder on Siesta Key of Sarasota Mayor Harry Higel and the Rigged Kangaroo Manatee County Grand Jury that Let Killer Rube Allyn Go Free. FBI Needed to Investigate Kangaroo Manatee County Grand Jury that returned 'No True Bill" on murder suspect Rube Allyn. Background for New Book and Screenplay for Movie Implicates Newsman Rube Allyn in Pistol Whipping Murder of Sarasota Mayor Harry Higel on Jan 7, 1921. Rube Allyn, he did it and got away with it, the Colt revolver murder weapon has been found 100 years later.

According to a Nov 28, 1919 article of the Tampa Tribune, Sarasota's rube Allyn wanted to be a famous actor, he had small part in the 1913 silent movie version (short) of "The Scarlet Letter" (1913) Drama, release date May 17, 1913, filmed in Color (Kinemacolor). The Scarlet Letter is a 1913 silent film that was based on the 1850 novel of the same title by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It was produced by the Kinemacolor Company of America and directed by David Miles. It starred Linda Arvidson, Murdock MacQuarrie and Charles Perley. The film tells the story of a noble but poor woman who arrives at Boston in the 17th century. There she marries an old but quite rich doctor but does not become happy. {The basic plot of the Hawthorne novel.} Hester Prynne, a Puritan woman, is forced to wear a scarlet A on her clothing when she gives birth to a daughter, Pearl, out of wedlock. The townspeople do not know who the father is, because Hester has chosen to keep secret the fact that the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale was her lover. RUBE ALLYN WANTED TO BE FAMOUS: Sarasota's Rube Allyn had a small part in the 1913 silent screen version of "The Scarlet Letter", he was the murderous man leading the mob that burned witches. Rube Allyn would have had to be in the NYC area in 1912 - 1913 to be part of the movie production for "The Scarlet Letter" release date May 17, 1913 .

 photo credit screenshot Pach Bros 841 Broadway New York NY at this location 1885-1890

Rube Allyn grew up working as a type setter for the small newspaper in Mt Forest Canada but the draw of the big cities of Philadelphia and New York City was too much for Rube, so off he went in 1889 when he was in his 20's. Rube took up drama classes and public speaking, he had professional photos taken at Pach Bros 841 Broadway New York NY, SEE ABOVE, and gave them out to talent agents, Rube wanted to be a star. Ironically the Pach Brothers was a family-run photography studio by German-born brothers Gustavus and Gotthelf Pach, Rube hated Germans. Rube Allyn wanted to be on the stage and in movies, (The Scarlet Letter 1913) he wanted to be famous, he wanted to be a star. Rube Allyn devolved a stage act in New York and hit the road with his long suffering wife Rose and their son, Rube Jr in tow. Rube Allyn loved to see his name in the papers with a review of his stage act. One of the first reviews of Rube Allyn's stage act, when he was 26, was in the Manitoba Free Press Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada on March 15 1892. Rube Allyn editor and publisher at the Sarasota Sun from 1913 to 1916.

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