London, Paris, Frankfurt, Cleveland everybody talk about Pop Egan.
John “Pop” Egan had been out of Sing Sing for four months when he was sleeping in the rear of Samuel Zournagian’s grocery store on this date back in 1927. Police said that the store also doubled as gang hangout. At about 9:15 pm three men came into the rear of the building and woke Pop up. As the ex-con was rising one of the men drew a pistol and shot him twice in the head. Pop went back to sleep. Two men, James Durkin and Thomas “Scrub” Morrissey, were both subsequently arrested for the murder but both were acquitted June 19, 1928 for lack of evidence.
Wonder why they woke him up first?
"He must have done something. They don't kill you for nothing." - Chicago Gangster Ted Newberry. Rubbed out January 7, 1933
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I do wonder indeed!
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