Back in January a Las Vegas blackjack dealer contacted me. She had found and read "Illegal Of The Day Kentucky 3" posted on 10/10/2010.
Here is a link to that post if you want to refresh your memory.
http://www.thechipboard.com/archives/archives.pl/bid/320/page/12/md/read/id/1058467/sbj/illegal-of-the-day-kentucky-3-and-pam/

She was looking for info on her grandfather, Abe Schneider. She knew very little about him. She heard he owned race horses and had a piece of a horse named "Ruthred." She thought he had been a boxer in his early years. There were family rumors about the Cleveland Syndicate. That caught my attention.

"Illegal Of The Day Kentucky 3" tells the story of John Croft. The Kefauver Commission describes John as:
John Croft is The Cleveland Syndicate’s “Palace Guard” of Newport, Ky. He handled Cleveland’s 6% to 15% in each joint.

The research on Abe Schneider came back with info that KY illegal chip collectors should find very interesting. Of particular interest is The Yorkshire.

Other Cleveland operated casino's were:
Yorkshire
Merchants club
Glenn Schmidt’s
Beverly Hills
Latin Quarter
Lookout House
Kentucky Club

Enough of that:
Northern Kentucky:

Abe Schneider

Abraham Schneider was born in Cincinnati in 1895, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants, and
died there in 1972 age 76. In the 30’s he operated a cigar store in Cincinnati at 109 E.6th St. In the early 40’s this address became “Red’s Café”. I’m not sure if Schneider was associated with Red’s or not, but his nickname was apparently “Red” (see below).

My note: Estes Kefauver's Crime Commission reports Abe Schneider as having points in all of The Cleveland Syndicate's Northern Kentucky casino's, along with John Croft and Red Masterson who is credited with burning Beverly Hills and killing the caretakers daughter to wrest control from Peter Schmidt. Cleveland had made a request for Beverly Hills and Schmidt said no.

Jimmy Brink and ER Lowe are also listed. Jimmy turned the Lookout House over to Cleveland at their request. My guess is Brink remembered the Beverly Hills result.

ER Lowe, Louisville, KY. He owned the 119 Club in Jeffersonville, Indiana that was closed in a raid in 1948 and several clubs in the Louisville/Elizabethtown, KY area

E.R. Lowe
Club Lexilville
Elizabethtown, KY
4,200 chips
7/5/1941

Here’s the Kefauver list:

My note: As you can see there are several point owners in Fort Thomas, KY. Fort Thomas was where the elite of N KY lived. Beverly Hills was on the edge of FT Thomas.

The list was used in a hearing in DC on 20June1952 in which the secretary-treasurer of the Yorkshire Bar/Restaurant, Virginia Purcell Moore, testified (they make a distinction between the bar/restaurant and the upstairs gambling club). At the hearing Purcell is asked to go through the list and name the men she has seen at the Yorkshire. At first she says she hadn’t seen Schneider, but then her attorney refreshes her memory: “Abe Snyder is Red Snyder, Mr. Schroeder’s brother-in-law.” She then remembers seeing him.

(Mr. Nellis is committee counsel; Mr. Davies is Purcell’s attorney)

I think you’ll be interested to know (if you don’t know already) that Abe’s brother-in-law “Mr. Schroeder” is actually Sammy Schraeder.

Schneider and Schraeder married sisters Sarah and Ruth Meyer, daughters of Morris Meyer of Cincinnati. Wonder if the race horse “Ruth Red” was named for Abe “Red” Schneider and Ruth Schraeder?

My note. IMO Sammy Schraeder was the "ghost" of N KY gambling. He has been mentioned in many of my articles on N KY gambling. He was the Cleveland Syndicate's "MAN" in N KY. Notice he is not on the Kefauver list. He was very adept at keeping his name out of things. Nothing happened without Sammy's OK.

A couple Cincinnati city directories:

Some articles:

Cleveland Plain Dealer—7july1955

Cleveland Plain Dealer—23aug1961
(this article says Schneider had an interest in not only the Yorkshire, but also
the 522 Club, Merchants Club and 14 East Southgate Club)

My Note" Any of you Kentucky boys ever hear of the "14 East Southgate Club?" That is a new one for me.

Sandusky (OH) Register--16march1962

Ruthred:

The E. Muckler named in the photo is Elizabeth Muckler, wife of August Muckler of St. Louis. The Muckler’s owned and bred racehorses at their farm in Missouri. Not sure what Schneider’s association was with them, whether he was a shareholder in Ruthred or they fronted his ownership or what. All the references I saw to Ruthred’s ownership was said to be by the Muckler’s.

Here’s the race reslults for the race in the photo; Oaklawn Park is in Hot Springs, Arkansas:

Two months later Ruthred has a victory at Washington Park in Illinois nullified on charges of doping:

Here’s Muckler’s obit from 1976:

I couldn’t find any references to Schneider’s amateur boxing career (wonder if he boxed under a different name). I don’t have access to either Cincinnati papers in order to locate the article about the half-brother. As far as I know, neither of the Cincinnati papers have been digitized—at least not during the time period that the article would have appeared.

I did come across this picture from 1934 in a book called Cincinnati Boxing. Schneider is in the pic, but not sure where:

Conclusion: We could not prove Abe Schneider owned a piece Ruthred or had an amateur boxing career. There is enough evidence to say both were very possible.

We did prove the family rumors that he was part of the Cleveland Syndicate. The Las Vegas blackjack dealer that asked me for help with her grandfathers history was very pleased with the research. I was very happy with the added history on the who, what, and where on more Northern, KY gambling history.