1000th VICTIM
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter— Copyright)
CHICAGO, February 24.
A small-time crook and police Informer was yesterday listed as the 1000th gangland victim since Chicago’s Crime Commission began keeping statistics in 1919.
Robert Hannah, 31, was found in a wooded area on Wednesday, frozen in a snowbank with eight bullet wounds in his back.
Frozen to his shirt was a dime (10-cent coin)— the contemptuous symbol left by underworld killers when murdering an informer.
Hannah left his home on January 30, police said, and was to have given evidence in a narcotics case on February 3. His mother, who reported him missing said someone had warned her son to leave the country for 90 days.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31304, 25 February 1967, Page 13
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1131000th VICTIM Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31304, 25 February 1967, Page 13
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