Tony Greco was visiting his cousin, Mrs. Perconti, in Gary, Indiana on
this evening in 1931. Mr. Perconti was not there having been taken for a
ride a year and half previously. According to the press the late Mr.
Perconti was one of the top bootleggers of Gary, Indiana and Tony was
his body guard.
After his visit, Tony stepped out on to the porch and into two shotgun
blasts fired from the basement window of the vacant house across the
street. Some of the pellets missed Tony and hit Mrs. Perconti, seriously
wounding her.
While inspecting the crime scene police noticed that someone had drawn a
cross on Mrs. Perconti's door with a yellow crayon. Across the street
there was also a yellow cross drawn on the window that the gunmen fired
from, leading police to believe that the killers were out-of-towners
brought in for the job. They were definitely good shots.
"He must have done something. They don't kill you for nothing." - Chicago Gangster Ted Newberry. Rubbed out January 7, 1933
2 comments:
The trigger-men definitely earned their money on that job. I assume they were never caught...
Can't say for certain. Wonder if they met a similar fate somewhere down the line.
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