On this date in 1930 two cops were
walking their beat on Manhattan's Lower Eastside when they heard a series of
shots. They ran to a six story tenement from whence the shots were fired and as
they entered the gunsmoke filled hallway they found the well dressed corpse of 27-year old Brooklyn gangster
Joseph Bivone. The killer(s), after depositing five bullets into Bivone, escaped out of the back of the building
but a trail of blood led the police to believe that another person was
wounded in the fracas. Bivone had a record consisting of three arrest
and, probably because he was from Brooklyn, police believed he was the
victim of a battle over gang territory.
"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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