Baby Daddy

Ninety-one  years ago today a sedan pulled over on a lonely road in the Chicago suburb of Homewood and a body was pulled from the car. In addition to five bullets in the back of the head, the man had been severely beaten; his nose, jaw and right arm had all been fractured. Before leaving, the killers doused the body in alcohol and set a match to it.

There wasn't any identification on the dead man but there was picture of a baby. With photo in hand, a cop went through Chicago's Italian west side trying to find anyone who might recognized the baby.  A woman did and directed the cop to Maria Adragna. Maria accompanied the cop to the morgue and identified the dead man as her husband Charles Adragna. She told police that her husband had been a bootlegger. According to the Maria, Charles had been friends with Diamond Joe Esposito, who had been bumped off himself a short time before, as well as Samoots Amatuna, another gangster who went to his final reward. Mrs. Adragna also said that she had her husband arrested a week earlier on March 24, because he beat her and threatened to kill her. Police didn't rule out that friends of Maria may have killed her husband.