FACTION FIGHTS

Evening Star, Issue 19032, 29 August 1925, Page 10

FACTION FIGHTS

HIRED GUNMEN UNDER.WO RLI) QUA IiRETA NEW YORK, August 20. A, waiter was hurled from the ninth storey of an hotel by a stage hypnotist and his two assistants. They had been holding a drunken orgy after the show, and the unfortunate man who waited on them at table is now dying, This incident has made tho police realise that Broadway and the adjacent streets of the theatrical district aro infested with a horde of sinister characters and crooks of every description. Detectives have been assigned to dear (he streets, restaurants, and public places of these, undesirables. Meanwhile police headquarters is worried by reports of rival gangs in the city’s underworld arming for war. One gang, known ns the Noarv Mob, has disagreed with the Diamond Mob. They have sworn vengeance on each ot her. It is reported that the Diamonds have imported a group of Detroit gunmen to help in the fight. Ahem- six months ago tho two Diamond brothers (“ Joe ” and “ Whitio ”) who gave the name to their mob, hoarded an elevated railway platform with three companions. ■Without uttering a word, they shot a navnia- ler, and tool; from him the hag in' which he was currying the factory wi.rkirs’ wages. All five were caught and executed. Probably the underworld battles now occupying the attention of the police are a, continuation of those which started eighteen months ago. Kid Dropper was shot in a crowded street while talking to his girl. Shortly after wards Kaplin, a rival gunman, also str.pped an automatic bullet in public. Huhsequent to these incidents, what the police called a gang war commenced. On three consecutive nights continuous fusillades terrorised the 'J cnderloin district Tim ended only when .Serbian r J ony was convicted of iho murder of Kid Dropper. llanos chance (heir name:-, a? often as the individuals comprising thenu and so add to I hr dillicuities of the. police. ITALIANS BATTLE, NEW YORK', August 20. Sympathisers with the fascist! and Italian E.cialists fought- a. bloody hauls in New York. , , , Before, the police were aide to end hostilities, six men had been stabbed and throe shot. Lilian Socialists wcic holding a mee.i,m- in a pnidic hall for the purpose of denouncing the methods of Mussolini and the bascisti ui Laly. < rs work, d themselves up _ M white licat, as they described the in jusdecs suffered by themselves before they mKrated to America. , , , The a v-emhh’d Socialists had keen roused to a state of bitterness and hatred towards ever, tin eg that pertains U> Mussolini when the do.-rs oi iho hall were burnt off their lunge-. _ Fiftv members of the Fascist, Lengiio of America hurst into the crowded meeting' and commenced to belabour the audicnee with stick's. ... ■ ~ , r Bar. lemonimn r.Knrd. Knives flashed in' Iho eioclric light. and revolvers looked out through the, dim. "l! available police reserves were ", Lie sno! blit motor cycle and PC,Hie pcd.ee had ,o be called ill as well (a put an cud to the battle. _ avaim-t both factions. tho police .succeeded finally m arresting fifty a rued men.