GANGSTER WARNS FRIENDS
■RELEASES PIGEONS ON ARREST NEW YORK. December 5. Armed detectives who yesterday raided the Brooklyn home of Moe Liss, a former member of the notorious “Waxey” Gordon gang, got their man. but failed to prevent him releasing two carrier pigeons, which presumably bore warnings to his confederates. In his apartment was found a supply of narcotics, and Liss, who is known in. the underworld as "The Spi-
der,” is suspected of having sold them I throughout the United States and I Canada. The detectives, who numbered 20, I surrounded the building before dawn. , and waited with drawn revolvers for Liss. I Finally they knocked at the door and Liss’s wife, who answered, exclaimed. ' “Thank God you’re policemen. l 'thought someone was trying to bump off my husband.” | Liss is now being questioned about the murder of half-a-dozen gangsters, who he is suspected of having shot in his alleged capacity of “executioner” for Gordon,
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Greymouth Evening Star, 21 January 1939, Page 12
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