[A single page from Donal Keane's private ledger book, kept in an iron strongbox built into the back-room wall at Doyle's Saloon. Leather-bound volume, foolscap size, Keane's careful hand. Summary page for 1922.]
1922 — SUMMARY — D.K.
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SOURCE MONTHLY AVG. ANNUAL METHOD
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Chief's salary $275.00 $3,300.00 official; bank
Chief's expense allowance $45.00 $540.00 official; bank
Port arrangement, Quay 3 —
20% margin, E.H. share
(from whisky_arrangement) $1,420 $17,050.00 cash; strongbox;
some to private
deposit via Mrs.
Doyle's nephew
in Detroit
Port arrangement —
direct tribute from R. — $300 $3,600.00 cash; strongbox
(Rizzo's personal; unrelated
to the 20% margin; for the
occasional accommodation
beyond the standing deal)
Miscellaneous "courtesies"
(gambling club protection;
brothel protection; dock
theft ignorance — $180 $2,160.00 cash; most to
Byrnes for his
own distribution,
some retained)
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TOTAL RECEIVED, 1922: $2,220/mo $26,650
TOTAL TAX-VISIBLE: $3,840
DIFFERENCE: $22,810
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[Below the summary, in Keane's hand:]
Deployment of the non-visible portion.
- Strongbox held, Doyle's (cash against immediate call): roughly 20%.
- Detroit private account (via Mrs. Doyle's nephew, J. T. Keegan, bank clerk at First Trust of Detroit; deposits made in Mrs. Doyle's name): roughly 40%. Mrs. Doyle takes a 3% handling fee; she has never asked why.
- Farm holdings, Erie County, PA (purchased 1921, three parcels, 240 acres total, in the name of a nominee — a retired H.P. man named Duffy who lives on one of the parcels): roughly 25%.
- Bearer bonds, held at a safety deposit box at Mutual Marine of Buffalo (in a private name; the name is a woman I shall not here record): roughly 10%.
- Immediate personal expenditure, beyond what the official salary would cover (tailor; a small boat on the lake; modest clothing; the occasional envelope to a nephew's schooling; the dinner I took your niece to last year, Margaret, which was on the salary and not on this): roughly 5%.
[At the foot:]
"Approach to 1923. The arrangement is secure. E.H. and I are each taking slightly more than our first estimates suggested we would, and we are each taking it without, so far, attracting the notice that would compel restraint. The newspapers have tried once; the labor movement tried once; the Heights write letters no one answers. A fifty-year-old man with thirty years of active life remaining may reasonably plan, if the arrangement holds, to retire at 65 with a private fortune of a respectable order — which is to say, quietly comfortable, nothing more. I do not require more than quietly comfortable. I have no sons. I have a niece in Cork to whom a modest American legacy will be, when the time comes, a surprise she will not have to account for to any revenue officer. I have accounted here because accounting is the habit of my office, and habits do not leave men of my age."*
— D.K., 31 December 1922.