TORTURE BY FIRE

Taranaki Daily News, 30 April 1931, Page 7

TORTURE BY FIRE

METHOD OF THE GANGSTER

JACK.’ DIAMOND’S VENGEANCE

VICTIM’S SON THEN HANGED BOOTLEGGER NEAR DEATH REVELATIONS IN NEW YORK By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Seed. 7 p.m. New York, April 28. To-day’s activities, of Jack Diamond’s gangsters reached sensational proportions while their leader s physicians expressed doubt whether he will live despite his survival up to the present He has bullets in his liver, lung, head and throat.

A group of ruffians, presumably wishing to make up for Jack’s indictment for burning a man in an elfort to make him reveal the details of his cider trade, seized the man and gave him a second serious beating; Shortly others dragged the. victim’s son from an automobile and hanged him t-> a tree, from which, however, he escaped and spread the alarm. The Governor of New York State, Mr. Franklin Roosevelt, gave orders to the police and State troopers to effect a “complete clean up of J e gang. Residents in the neighbourhood of Diamond’s Catskill mountain stronghold formed vigilante troups in an attempt to drive the criminals from the area.

The gangsters, however, seem to intend to give considerable battle befoie dropping the profitable “applejack bootleg business. They have organised in what is ironically called the “driest portion of New York. State police, however, have apprehended five alleged members of Diamond’s group and found the automobile from which Diamond wa? shot. This contained ail arsenal of shotguns and • revolvers and daggers made frdm needle-pointed ice picks.