Today in 1931 the body of "Cleveland Beer Baron" Al Jaffee, (not to be
confused with Mad Magazine artist Al Jaffee) was found on a lonely
Toledo road just south of the Michigan border. He wasn't by himself
either. the fellers who bound, gagged and fired a couple of .45 bullets
into his head figured they should send him off with a companion and so
did the same to his body guard Harry "The Carpenter" Gertzlin.
A couple reasons offered for the offing were that they were trying to
muscle in on the Toledo alcohol scene and that they were there to settle
a situation regarding the hijacking of one of their liquor trucks. If
it was the latter then I doubt they were satisfied with resolution.
*Didn't come up with that one ourselves, it's a title of book about Toledo gangsters.
"He must have done something. They don't kill you for nothing." - Chicago Gangster Ted Newberry. Rubbed out January 7, 1933
2 comments:
Harry's brother was Larry "The Bodyguard" Gertzlin. Ironically, Larry was a carpenter.
I smell a comedy script...Vinnie Jones is Harry and Chris Kattan is Larry but the bad guys get them mixed up and...it practically writes itself. You're a genius!
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