Kane Mutiny

St. Louis gangster Andrew Kane was a bad man. By the age of 26, he had been arrested forty-one times with numerous convictions, including one for murder in 1915. Though sentenced to ten years he was out in two.  He was said to be chummy with St. Louis's premiere gang, Egan's Rats having been arrested with a few of them the previous week as a suspect. 

He had been running a bar with a pal but the partnership dissolved in early July. At about eight-fifteen on the evening of August 5, 1923, Kane was seen fighting with two men in a residential section of town. Witnesses stated that during the fight, two shots rang out and Kane staggered away from the two men and dropped. He had been hit in the left side and under the right armpit. By time police arrived he was dead.

Andrew Kane