GANG WARFARE.
ANOTHER VICTIM ROT)Y BUR TED IN QUICKLIME (TJ.P.A. by Bloc. Tel. Copyright). NEW YORK. Nov. 5. Gang warfare for the control of Nenv York’s underworld added to its victims to-day when the body of a murdered man was found in a. rural section 10J miles from New York. Tti was identified as that of Charles Sherman, known as “The, Chinaman'’ who was closely associated with ’'Dutch” Schultz, ‘‘"Waxy” Gordon, and other prominent gangsters. Sherman was shot, his head crushed with, an axe, and the nude body buried ; in quicklime, apparently in the hope that it would never he found. The police believe that the assassination, like that of Schultz, both the Ambergs, and others recently, is the work of a secret organisation known as the. “Union Siciliano’’ whose leader, Charles Luciano, is reported to have gone to Miami to avoid arrest in New York. ,
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12703, 7 November 1935, Page 3
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