Thirty year old James Clark was a former member of Tanner Smith's gang*
whose claim to fame was having took part in a theft of $92,000 worth of
aspirin in 1926. On this date in 1929 at 9:30pm Clark walked into a
drug store at 383 8th Avenue for a pack of cigarettes. When he stepped
back outside some one placed a gun to his head and pulled the trigger.
Miraculously Clark wasn't killed out right and was rushed to the
hospital where he refused to talk to police.
*For the low down on the Tanner Smith gang check out Gangster City
"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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