Is There Link to U.S. Crime?
Wall St. Journal Oct 5, 1966 FREEPORT: Grand Bahama Island —Scene: the gold-papered, crystal-chandeliered Monte Carlo room in the luxurious Lucayan Beach Hotel. Roulette wheels spin their reds and blacks. Crap shooters roll their sevens and elevens. Blackjack dealers turn their aces and kings. Slot machines whirl their lemons and plums. Surveying the quick play and quiet players in the affable but cold-eyed man in charge, a runaway New Yorker wanted by American authorities. He is balding, 61-year-old Frank Ritter, alias “Red” Reed, whose natty appearance (mustard sports jacket with double vents, tapered beige slacks, brown suede shoes) fails to dispel the impression that he’s familiar with the grime of the underworld. Ritter’s presence, and his suspected links with the U.S. crime syndicate, cast a pall over the “island in the sun” just 70 miles off the Florida coast. Grand Bahama, largely barren a few years ago, today attracts hundred of millions of dollars from U.S. tourists and inves
