Pittsburgh not interested in Brotherly Love

With over 30 arrests, Joe "Woggles" Jacobs was a Philadelphia hoodlum and former chauffeur for Boo Boo Hoff, who left the City of Brotherly Love and headed to Pittsburgh in search of new opportunities. On March 2, there was a raid on some dive and Jacobs was arrested with two other guys. Police found some guns, wire tapping devices and telephone receivers. Their racket seems to have been attempting to tap the lines of bookies.

Jacobs was ordered to leave town, but he didn't. He should have. Apparently the local underworld wasn't happy with having an outsider in their midst tapping their phones. On this night in 1932, a motorcycle cop riding along a deserted road in the Pittsburgh area town of Penn Township, looking for "Spooners" heard five gun shots. Stopping his bike, the cop saw a man jump from a car and enter a coupe and drive away. Inspecting the other auto, the officer found Jacobs slumped over with bullet wounds in his jaw and neck. Oh, and he was dead.

Joseph "Woggles" Jacobs