GANG BULLETS.
TWO PROMINENT MEN DEAD
NEW YORK, April 20,
Gangsters 5 bullets accounted for two prominent citizens at the same hour, but in widely separated localities. Judge Stivers, a leader of a moral reform movement in Manchester, Kentucky, many of whose Police Court decisions had annoyed his opponents, was shot down while walking home from his office. In a quiet street a motor car drew alongside him, and the occupants, working a machine-gun, riddled him with bullets.
The other murder was that of John Picco, Italian Consul at Springfield, Illinois. He was leaving the hospital where his wife was a patient when a volley of shots greeted him. He died without saying a word, and the police do not know the motive for the killing.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 98, 27 April 1932, Page 7
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