‘POULTRY RACKET’ MURDERS
THREE MEN SHOT. NEW YORK, November 10. The warfare among the city's poultry market “racketeers,” which has been a public scandal for the l»st twenty years, flared up again to-imy. 'I wo men wero shot dead and another was seriously in jured. The la. t is now in a critical condition. The men were trapped in the hall of a cheap lodging-house on the oast side. All the three were ruthlessly • hot down by masked gunmen who iiad been hiding in an alley across the street.
One of the dead men, Abraham Cohen, had long been suspected of a sensational murder in the "poultrv war” some years ago. but, thanks to the cleverness of his lawyer. lie finally secured an acquittal, and returned to his business. His death today is thought to be the revenge of rival gangsters. The so-called “poultry racket" is a system whereby market tradesmen are forced to pay regular retainers to rations associations for protection against rival associations. Thos“ merchants who refuse to pay tribute find their business ruined by the poisoning of their livestock, the desuucrion of their trucks in unusual accident.-, and the throwing of bombs through their shop-windows.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 2 January 1935, Page 10
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