Michael McNamara was a small time gangster with arrest in different cities for passing bad checks, forgery, posing as a revenue agent and selling drugs but it appears that it was for bootlegging that the forty-year old hoodlum was bumped off.
Eighty-one years ago today his body was found in some bushes behind a Queens cemetery and evidence showed that he was brought to the spot in a car, then dragged across the road and down by a stream then left in the bushes. McNamara had been shot once under the chin and twice in the heart. On his body was found a book containing a list of New York City nightclubs, which led police to suspect that he was a bootlegger.
"He must have done something. They don't kill you for nothing." - Chicago Gangster Ted Newberry. Rubbed out January 7, 1933
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