DIAMOND’S GANG

Grey River Argus, 30 April 1931, Page 5

DIAMOND’S GANG

MORE OUTRAGES Big Battle With Police (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.) (Received April 29,^at 7 p.m.) NEW YORK/ Apr il 28. To-day,’s activities of Jack Diamond’s gangsters here, reached sensational proportions. While their lead I cr’s Diamond’s physicians had c*xpres ! sod their doubts as to whether he I would live, despite H’-s present survi--1 val of bullets in his liver, lung, head and throat, a group of his ruffians, presumably' wishing to make up for) Jack’s indictment as cabled on April ?7th, for burning a man in an effort to make him reveal the details of his cjder trade 1 , seized the latter. They then gave him a second serious beating. Shortly afferwarlds others dragged the victim’s son from an automobile and they hanged him to a tree, from which, however, he escaped, and 1 then spread the alarm. • Governor Roosevelt, of New York, State has given orders to the pot’ce and State Troopers to the effect for I“a complete up of the gang." ; The. residents in the neighbourhood I of Diamond’s Catsgfll Mountain strong I hold have formed a Vigilants group in an attempt to drive the criminals from , the artea. i Thiol latter, however, seem to intend to give- considerable battle before drop- | ping their profitable “Apple Jack" business. They arc organised in wha.t is ironically called the “driest" portion of New Yoitk State. The police., have appreI bended five alleged members of Diamond’s group. They have also found the automobile from wh'-ch Diamond lwa s shot. This contained an arsenal i of two shotguns, revolvers, and daggers made from nec'dlc-point ice picks. | Au earfflicr cable stated:— Jack Diamond, known as “Legs," the- gang st er, has again been critically wounded. He was hit by shot-gun slugs in an area (New York) road house. | “Legs" was seated with companions I [at a meal when he suddenly rose and. la. ent to the door. The guests heard ■shots, and they found h<m on the ' floor. A passing farmer took him and : | a companion to the Albany Hospital.; (He was shot before in October), .1927, j and again, last August, from, wounds jv.hiclu he recentlv recovered. : ,