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American crime boss (1904–1968)

Frank Wortman
Born	Frank L. Wortman (1904-12-04)December 4, 1904 St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Died	(1968-08-03)August 3, 1968 St. Louis, Missouri
Other names	"Buster" Wortman
Occupation(s)	burglar, bootlegger, gambler, criminal gang leader
Allegiance	Shelton Brothers Gang

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"Buster" Wortman (December 4, 1904 – August 3, 1968) was an American St. Louis-area bootlegger, gambler, criminal gang leader, and a former member of the Shelton Brothers Gang during Prohibition.

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Wortman built a house in Collinsville that was surrounded by a moat before legal battles and the loss of coin machine territories diminished his finances in.

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When I was a little girl we went out to Buster's house.

When he and his wife divorced, he moved into the Broadway Hotel in East St. Louis and began planning a fortress that he would call "The Moat,".

Wortman would eventually succeed the Sheltons, and take over St. Louis's gambling operations in southwest Illinois until his death.

Early life

The son of an East St. Louis fire captain, Wortman spent his early years living in north St.

Louis. John Worthmann, his grandfather, worked as a proofreader for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and was killed when struck by a streetcar in 1894. Frank Wortman turned to crime