A 1932 Two-fer

On this date in 1932, Cleveland police approached a car assuming that the man slumped in the front seat was drunk. By 1932 they should have known better. The drunk turned out to be Frank Capillo who was an underworld power in the policy racket. Authorities also thought that he may have been involved in the corn sugar racket. According to his wife he left home the previous evening at 6.

Meanwhile, a little farther west in Chicago the body of Otto Fernick, Dutch Bill, to his cronies, was found in the back seat of a sedan with a number of bullets in his head.

Known as a conman, pickpocket who grew into a gangster, Dutch Bill previously chauffeured for Timothy Lynch, head of the Central Teamsters and Chauffeurs union, who was bumped off the previous spring. Police guessed that Fernick was bumped off for running beer through territory controlled by another gang while detectives felt that he got the works because of his association with the union.