GANGSTER KILLINGS
Outbreak in New York UNION OFFICIALS SHOT " NEW Y0RK~ Oct. 3. • Eacketeer killings havo broken out ;again. 0*3 union official, Samuel IGapel, aged 34, was shot down, whilc .another, Max Eubin, was seriously jwounded. It is believed both wero ■victims in an underworld attempt to Lfrustrate the efforis of the special j ,'prosecutor, Mr. Tbomas Demey, to wipe ;out a gigantic racketeer riiig preying . Jon trades unions. , Gapel was shot down in thc hallway •of his home cn lower East iSide. Rubin Was shot in the head from hehind near iHis home on the Bronx. He was the iprosecution's star witness in the cace 'against the alleged racketeer, Maxx Silverman, who was chargod with extortion. The shooting occnrred while Silver- ! man, who under a bail of 250,000 dollars was on the way from New York ! by air from Los Angeles, where he was > arrested after evading the detectives j for two years.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 9, 4 October 1937, Page 3
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