Was on this morning in 1928 when some early birds came to an intersection
in Chicago Heights and found...a magic hat which they placed on a
snowman who miraculously came to life...just kidding, it wasn't a magic
hat they found but a dead body with four bullets in the head and neck.
Now I feel bad.
Here you were thinking you were going to be treated to a nice holiday
story and I talk about dead gangsters...let's try again shall we? While
Chicagoans were trying to figure out who was blocking their
intersection on this date back in 1928, about four hundred miles away
in Mount Clemens, Michigan, a trucker was hauling produce to Detroit when
something off to the side of the road caught his eye. He put on the
breaks. Jumping to the road he ran up and found a magic hat. He put it
on the nearest snowman who then began to dance around....ok, I lied
again. He didn't find a hat it was dead gangster who had been shot and
then his body lit on fire.
"He must have done something. They don't kill you for nothing." - Chicago Gangster Ted Newberry. Rubbed out January 7, 1933
4 comments:
You sure know how to harsh my mellow.
DGIS -Proudly harshing mellows since 2007.
"...then his body lit on fire."
I'm assuming that, in the spirit of the holidays, they roasted chestnuts? I mean, even gangsters need to have a Christmas party, just like everybody else.
I suspect our right, and why bother scaring up a Yule log when you got a perfectly good dead body.
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