RIVAL GANGS FIGHT.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 17 September 1925, Page 9

RIVAL GANGS FIGHT.

FATAL BATTLE IN STREET. HOLIDAY-MAKERS. PRESENT. NEW YORK, Scot. 7. Gang warfare has been renewed in New York. “Eleven-fingered Frank,” leader of a. notorious gang, was shot in a revolver flight with a dozen members of a rival gang. The battle took place in a street crowded with holiday-makers. “Frank,” with a dozen bullets in his body, fell in front of the Rendezvous .Hotel, a place bf shady repute. His slayers got away without any attempt on the part of the crowd to interfere.

The incident is likely to lead to others of the sort, and it is not anticipated that the dead gang-leader’s obsequies will pass w-ithout being Frightened with a little gun-play. Extraordinary precautions are taken by the police, on such occasions. AVhen Dion O’Ban ion. leader of a Chicago gang, was buried, he had a magnificent gang-controlled funeral, at which there was no religious ceremony, though music was played. An enormous crowd assembled, and unobtrusive detectives passed here and there, feeling hip and breast pockets for concealed weapons.