"He must have done something. They don't kill you for nothing." - Chicago Gangster Ted Newberry. Rubbed out January 7, 1933

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Gotta pay your dues if you wanna sell the booze and you know it don't come easy.

Four score and six years ago today, a cop was making the rounds when he found what he figured to be a drunk face down in the snow. He went to rouse him and discovered that the man had been doing shots of a different sort, four to be exact. He rushed the guy to hospital, but all was for naught as the man was DOA (and the D didn't stand for drunk). Finger prints showed that his name was Vincent Matoli and, according to police, he was associated with a gang of bootleggers.

2 comments:

John DuMond said...

For a bootlegger, that would be classified as "death by natural causes."

Patrick Downey said...

Saved the coroners a lot of time filling out the death certificates.