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GUNMAN OUTRAGE FOUR BOOTLEGGERS DEAD IN FLAT WITH CIGARS IN THEIR HANDS KILLED LISTENING TO JAZZ Rec. Sept. 17, 7.15 p.m.
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By Telephone —
DETROIT, Wednesday. Evidence that not only Chicago and New York are gangster ridden is disclosed in the cold-blooded assassination of three bootleggerg; hy four fellow gunmen who trapped them in a fashionable flat here late to-day and mowed them down with a fusilade of shots in the hack. The dead men were smoking and listening to a gramophone when they were shot. They were found lying face downwards on the floor, cigars in their hands and a half played jazz record on the gramophone. The slayers escaped, being seen to ride off in a limousine car. The murders aTe believed to he the sequel to a liquor running feud.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 22, 18 September 1931, Page 3
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