Ninety-one years ago today a busload of tourist got to witness a
gangland killing first hand when their tour bus was going through Little
Italy. The victim was Joseph Marone who was walking down the street
when a car containing four men pulled up behind him and fired a shot.
Marone dropped to the sidewalk with a bullet in his thigh. Before any
more shots could be fired the tour bus pulled up between the car and
Marone and the shooters sped off.
The tourist thought they were
watching the filming of a movie and didn't realize that Marone was
actually hurt but a pedestrian who knew better went and fetched a cop.
At first Marone's leg wound appeared superficial and he was taken to
Bellevue hospital where he was arrested. But at midnight the police
received word from the hospital that he had died.
During his
interrogation Marone kept his mouth shut and said nothing about his
affairs or the men who shot him but police believed he was part of a
burglary gang and double crossed the other members with the divvying up
of spoils. The police also said that Marone knew he was a marked man and
only left his house in the daytime. The killers, they speculated had
been staking out his house and that's how they got him.
2 comments:
These days, the tour companies charge extra to see a gangland killing.
I pine for the good old days.
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