RIVAL GANGS FIGHT.
FATAL BATTLE IN STREET. HOLIDAY-MAKERS PRESENT. NEW YORK, September 7. Gang warfare has been renewed in New York. "Eleven-fingered Frank," leader of a notorious gang, was shot in a revolver fight with a dozen members of a rival gang. The battle took place in a street crowded with holiday-makers. "Frank," with a dozen bullets in his body, fell in front of the Rendezvous Hotel, a place of shady repute. His slayers got away without any attempt on the part of the crowd to interfere. The incident is likely to lead to others of the sort, and it is not anticipated that the dead gang-leader's obsequies will pass without being brightened by a little gun-play. Extraordinary precautions arc taken by the police on such occasions. When Dion O'Banion. leader of a Chicago gang, was buried, he had a magnificent gang-controlled funeral, at which there was no religious ceremony, though music was played.
An enormous crowd assembled, and unobtrusive detectives passed here and there, feeling hip and breast pockets for concealed weapons.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 218, 15 September 1925, Page 7
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