At some point seventy-six eighty years ago today John Amenbola
stumbled out the back door of a New York City tenement building and dropped dead with
three bullets in his body. Though only twenty-three years old he was a
hardened criminal with a record dating back to 1926.
Amenbola
served a term in Sing Sing for robbery and was paroled in 1930. He went
back in in March of 1934 for parole violation and was released a short
time before his demise. The janitor of the building found him at 11:00pm
and reported his grisly find to the police who subsequently found a plethora of policy tickets on and around Amenbola's body. It appears that his post Sing Sing employment was that of a bookie
"He must have done something. They don't kill you for nothing." - Chicago Gangster Ted Newberry. Rubbed out January 7, 1933
2 comments:
It was damn nice of that policy racket to give an ex-con a chance for employment.
Yes, the underworld was quite progressive.
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