Kirkillis had been recently released from the workhouse where he did a stint for stabbing a man. He had also been picked up on suspicion of killing another. However, police believe that Kirkillis was bumped off for tipping off Federal Prohibition agents about speakeasies belonging to his rivals.
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18 May 2017
Another King falls
Kirkillis had been recently released from the workhouse where he did a stint for stabbing a man. He had also been picked up on suspicion of killing another. However, police believe that Kirkillis was bumped off for tipping off Federal Prohibition agents about speakeasies belonging to his rivals.
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1931,
Bootleggers,
Chicago,
Columbia Heights,
Kirkillin,
Massillon,
Ohio,
on the spot,
Patrick Downey,
rubbed out

16 May 2017
Gone Fishin'

Since the murder, Parker had been hiding out in a fishing camp. On this day in 1928 some visitors picked him up at his hideout and took him for a ride, literally. The following day his body was found in a shallow pool of water at the bottom of an embankment. Police reasoned that he had been riding in the back seat of the car when the person in the front passenger seat turned, and shot him in the face four times. He was then dragged from the car and rolled down the embankment. Cincinnati gunman Robert Zwick was subsequently credited with the killing.
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1928,
Cincinnati,
Hamilton,
Kentucky,
Ohio,
one way ride,
Parker,
Patrick Downey,
Zwick

15 May 2017
Perhaps he should have knocked first
On this date in 1932, two Detroit gangsters, Sam and Andrew Farrera. were doing
some business in Toledo, Ohio when some local gangsters decided that they
didn’t need any Motor City hoodlums muscling in. The Farreras, and another guy, were parked in their cousin's driveway when a
car load of rivals pulled up and opened fire. The windshield of the Ferraras’
car shattered, sending glass into Sam’s eyes. His vision impaired, Sam managed
to slip from the car and dive through a basement window. His brother caught a
bullet in the hand.
After the first barrage, the attackers pulled around the corner and one of them, John Incorvaia, alias Engoria, 33, jumped from the auto and returned to the house with an automatic pistol. Not bothering to knock, Incorvaia rushed into the house and opened fire. Moments later he dropped dead with two bullet wounds, one of which pierced his head. Mabel Candela, a cousin of the Ferreras, confessed to the shooting saying that she fired in self-defense.
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1932,
Candela,
Detroit,
Engoria,
Farrera,
Incorvaia,
Ohio,
Patrick Downey,
rubbed out,
shoot out,
Toledo

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