THE GANGSTER WORLD
WIDOW MURDERED. NEW YORK, Saturday. Mrs Alice Diamond, widow of the A gangster, Jack (“Legs”) Diamond, who was slain in December, 1931, was found murdered in an apartment . where she was living quietly under an .assumed name. She was shot through the back of the head. Although the awlls were criddled with 'bullets, neighbours declare they heard no shots. GANGSTER KIDNAPPED. . ■ • , CHICAGO, Sunday. “ Jake’” Factor, a stock promoter . wanted in England on a, series of swindling charges, was kidnapped on Saturday while he was leaving a cabaret with his family. - 1 Seven men armed with machine-guns and pistols abducted him. ~ ~ „ . , .-; .
The authorities say that no demands have yet been received, although an authoritative source jeports that a member of his family has received a demand for £30,000.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 3 July 1933, Page 5
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