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

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Orlandoh!

Police had been searching for twenty-one year old Orlando Minichelli for over two months for his possible participation in a murder but either friends of the victim, or perhaps his own confederates who felt things would be safer if he was out of the way, caught up with him first. As the young hoodlum was walking in Harlem on May 7, 1935 he passed a store where a man stepped out and fired six bullets into him at point blank range. As Minichelli fell dead, the gunman tossed his .38, into a doorway and ran away

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