A WILD CHRISTMAS.
SENSATIONS IN AMERICA. SEVERAL PERSONS KILLED. AN UNTAMED COUNTRY, By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Dee. 27, 5.5 p.m. New York, Dec. 26. America’s Christmas record is like a crime sheet of a police docket. Chicago saw eight killed, mostly in automobile and drinking parties. In New York a fight among gamblers resulted in the sensational shooting of Joseph Tomasallo, formerly known as the "Kid Thomas,” pugilist, and now owner of the “great white poodle” cabaret in Greenwich Village, one of those all night entertainments the New York police have been trying to close recently. Kentucky wts’ unabl? to forget her feuds over Christmas. Sheriff William Smith, of a village named Hazard, went to quell a disturbance. When the smoke cleared he and three others were dead and two more pounded. When Smith’s death was reported three other officers started out. A fire cracker exploding alongside them sounded like a gun, so they opened fire into a store, killing two more persons. Many individual crimes show that America is still untamed in spots.
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 December 1923, Page 4
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174A WILD CHRISTMAS. Taranaki Daily News, 28 December 1923, Page 4
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