WEEK-END TOLL
ELEVEN GANGSTERS AND TWO POLICEMEN KILLED
(Received 3rd June, 9.45 a.m.) NEW YORK, 2nd June.
Eleven gangsters and two policemen were killed over the week-end in one of the worst recrudescences of gang warfare ever recorded in the East, Middle, and Western States. Chicago led all the rest with three killings this morning, when a machine gun was trained on and fired through a small suburban hotel window by one of the rival beer-running factions. ' There were two other gang murders on Saturday and five other underworld characters, including a woman, were wounded in to-day's outbreak. Detroit reported that two police officers were slain by bootleggers and three men killed by gangsters. .Passaic (New Jersey) reported that three notorious beer-runners were shot to death.
Boston reported two gangsters seriously wounded by machine gun fire from an automobile.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 3 June 1930, Page 5
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