Early in the morning of August 14, 1959 Chicago gangster John Miraglia sat the bar in the Orange Lantern saloon. At 42-years-old, Miraglia had been a member of the Windy City's underworld since at least 1934 when he was arrested for murder after killing a guy in a fight outside a nightclub. He managed to beat the rap and racked up another twenty-five arrests; one for each remaining year of life. He only served one sentence and that was eighteen months for interstate theft.
As Miraglia nursed his drink at the bar two masked men entered with drawn .38s. One of them came up behind gangster and ended his career by sending four bullets into his head. Three years later he'd be in the papers again when his son Jimmy, who followed in his father's criminal footsteps, was found dead in the trunk of a car with gangster associate Billy McCarthy.
John Miraglia
No comments:
Post a Comment