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

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Mr. Diamond, clean out your desk

Twas eighty-two years ago this morning that Gangland Inc. gave Legs Diamond his walking papers. One of the more colorful characters of the Prohibition Era his fellow colleagues decided that they had had enough of his shenanigans and it was time for him to go. Actually, they tried to dismiss him numerous times but he had good contacts in HR so managed to hang on to his position longer than the powers that be intended.

If you want to know the full story, and you do, click on the book to the left. You can get an old fashioned hand held paper model, or one of them new fangled electronic doohickeys. You can also read an interview I did over at Nobody Move! as well as an article Here.



2 comments:

John DuMond said...

I'll bet the poor guy didn't even get a severance check.

Patrick Downey said...

Not even a reference.