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- 7th Victim in Bootleg War
‘Racketeer” found with head crushed in from hammer blow
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Over whose bullet-riddled body an inquest was to be held today.
Bozo Ouchar, “Little Italy” bootlegger, buried yesterday. Louchar, slain an hour before he was to have been married, was found lying in a pool of blood in front of 650 1/2 North Broadway Monday morning.
Bobbie Lee, Americanized Chinese flapper, who was shot to death and her throat cut and thrown from a speeding automobile at Downey last week.
John I. Glab, wealthy former Chicago druggist and racket man, murdered in front of his Ventura boulevard home.
William Cassity, police informer of 777 College street, “taken for a ride.” His lead-filled body was found in the hills of Altadena.
A headless foreigner found near Puente, victim of bootleg warfare.
Tom McGill, hotel night clerk, shot to death after he turned over contents of safe to two holdup men on March 19.
[the article continues with more murders and more details of Polombo’s murder]
Los Angeles Evening Express, Los Angeles, California. Thursday, 19 July 1928, page 4.
The story begins of page 1 with the headline:
14 Unsolved Murders Set New L.A. Record
Total of killings since January 1 reaches figure heretofore untouched
Gangland active
Latest slaying of underworld added to mysteries that balk police.
Los Angeles’ “murder wholesalers” are running amuck!
The name of “Augie” Palombo – he wanted to be a big racketeer – was written in blood in gangland’s death scroll today, making a total of 14 unsolved murder mysteries here since January 1.
[article continues detailing Palombo’s murder and then proceeds to page 4 with more on the other murders.]
Los Angeles Evening Express, Los Angeles, California. Thursday, 19 July 1928.
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- Murder Takes New Twist
Witnesses tell of auto near scene of Cassity slaying by gangster in Pasadena
Another mystery automobile was injected into the underworld revenge killing of William J. Cassity, 63 years of age, yesterday at a Pasadena inquest over the body of the man who died before gangsters’ bullets Sunday night because, police assert, he “tipped off” the authorities to active bootleggers in “Little Italy.”
Before the Coroner’s jury returned a verdict that Cassity came to his death at the hands of unidentified persons with homicide intent, two near-witnesses to the killing told of another car, in addition to the one the gunman used, being in the vicinity of Fair Oaks avenue and Alta Lorna Drive, where the shooting occurred.
Donald McIntyre, 471 Eldora Road, Altadena, and Herbert Anderson, 3104 North Raymond avenue, Pasadena, each 16, who were driving near the intersection heard the three shots and saw the gunman drive hurriedly away, leaving his victim dying in the street.
Car Speeds Away
McIntyre and Anderson also told the Coroner’s jury they saw a small coupe parked at the head of Fair Oaks avenue. After the shots were fired they said the lights of the small car switched on quickly and it sped away. Deputy sheriffs are trying to find a clew to enable them to locate the occupants of the small car.
After the verdict was returned, the officials agreed that Casity was killed by rum dealers because he “talked too much at the wrong place and wrong time.”
August Nelson, who resides in the Cassity home, 777 College street, is believed to be the last person who saw the tinsmith alive. He testified he noticed nothing unusual about Cassity’s demeanor when he left home shortly before he was killed.
Son Warned Father
A.B. Cassity, son of the slain man, testified he had repeatedly warned his father from informing on bootleggers in the neighborhood in which they lived.
Deputy Sheriffs Monteleone and Croushorn testified concerning the conditions as they found them when they were called to the scene of the killing by McIntyre and Anderson.
Capt. Bright, chief of the Sheriff’s homicide squad, declared yesterday that he and his investigators have not the slightest clew to the identity of Cassity’s murder of murderers.
The Los Angeles Time, Los Angeles, California. Wednesday, 11 July 1928, part 2, page 8.
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