GANGSTER WAR.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 April 1932, Page 2

GANGSTER WAR.

NEW YORK SHOOTING. Vincent Coll, the 23-yeal- old ltadt of a bootlogging gang in the Bronx, on whose head a rival gang was sani to have put a price of 50,000 dollars, was murdered at 1 o’clock one moining in a “drug store” in Neu- York recently. Coll was in a telephone booth when four men drove up to tlie stole in a large motor-car. One remained at the wheel and two others stationed themselves on the pavement as look-outs. The fourth man walked briskly into the store and, drawing a diminutive machine gun from under his coat, advised two clerks and four customers to “take this quietly.” Without any other preliminary he fired 12 shots through the glass door of the telephone booth, filing Coll. He then walked briskly out again, and a moment. later the ear dashed off. A policeman, attracted by the noise from his post 50 yards away, gave chase to the gunmen’s ear in a taxicab. He fired tveo shots at the car before he was outdistanced. Imt whether they found a mark or not is not known. The polite had reason to believe that Coll, who Mas unarmed, Mas betrayed, by his om’u bodyguard ami, shot by gunmen imported from Chicago by rival gangsters. Just a M'eek helore gnn,iy.cn hunting lor Coll killed throe ol his followers and seriously wounded several ethers, including two women, attacking them all unawares at a dinner party in a Hat. I'nti! January. 1931), Coil was a member ol a gang with which his gang is now in conflict. Five murders in the i,as{ two years have been attributed to him. but tbi- police laid always been unable lo fasten guilt upon him because of the terrorisalioii of their v, ii.m s.a s.