JUST PLAIN MURDER
NOTORIOUS GANGSTER’S END. NEW YORE, February 12. Incredible nerve and savage ruthlessness characterised the shooting oi Vincent Coll, a notorious young gunman. by a. weli-dresed gangster, who calmly picked out his victim from among the customers in a drug store j and then riddled him with bullets from a machine-gun. “Everyone keep tool, this ain’t no stick-up, you tan’i. get hurt.'' said the murderer, a young man, to the people : in tli(> store, niter he had uiislung his ! machine-gun and manoeuvred into a i position commanding tin* entire room. Picking out the man lie was alter, he I shot him dead, and thanked the bv- | slanders for their calmness before slipI ping out of the shop. I Vincent Coll, one of Gotham's most notorious gunmen, was recently acquitted of th" murder of a little girl who was naught, in the path of flying bullets of rival gangs. The rivalry between the beer racketeering gangs ol Col! and “Dutch ’ Schultz has been responsilvld for a score ol killings.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 February 1932, Page 2
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170JUST PLAIN MURDER Hokitika Guardian, 20 February 1932, Page 2
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