BODY FOUND IN TRUNK
NEW YORK GANGSTER
PRESUMED MURDER BY
RIVALS
NEW YORK, August 25,
. Tho police had another "trunk murder" mystery on thoir hands today.
The badly-mangled body of Bernard MeMahon a petty racketeer and once the henchman of the notorions Jack ("Legs") Diamond, was found jammed in a small trunk left on tho steps of the West Side home of Brigadier-Gen-oral Louis Stotesbury, a prominent citizen and president of ilie Humane Society, who was out of tho city for tho summer.
Both legs wore cut off at the knees to fit tho trunk. The polico have no theory concerning the murder except tho possibility that MeMahon was the victim of rival gangsters, who, for somo reason or other, desired to make a, bizarre affair of the assassination.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 49, 27 August 1934, Page 9
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129BODY FOUND IN TRUNK Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 49, 27 August 1934, Page 9
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