Really Detroit, Another One!!

On the morning of July 16, 1930 A young Detroit woman left her house to run up to the local store. On her way she found the body of gangster David Overstein lying between two garages. He had been shot three times in the side of the head. She alerted a neighbor, who in turn, called the police.

Overstein was an ex-convict who had ties to the Purple Gang. In the early Twenties he was reputed to be a member of  the Oakland Sugar House gang. In 1928 he was sent to the Michigan State Reformatory for breaking and entering. Upon his release it was said that he got involved with bootlegging.

Overstein was last seen hanging around a corner at about 10 p.m. the previous night. Neighbors who lived nearby the garages where the dead gangster was found, said they heard one shot, around midnight, followed by three more. 

David Overstein