Red's dead baby, Red's dead

Forty-five year old Frank "Red" Kreuger had a nice gangland resume in Chicago. Most likely a member of the Valley Gang and  good friends with the gang leader Paddy "the Bear" Ryan, before the latter's demise. In the 1920s he was involved with the Druggan-Lake bootlegging gang, which evolved out of the Valley Gang.

It was reported that Kreuger had left the Druggan-Lake combine and joined forces with the West Side's Red Bolton gang. Perhaps that's the reason he was rubbed out on this date in 1929. The end came for Kreuger as he was sitting in his car outside his father in-law's restaurant located at 734 West 22nd Street. As he sat there, a coupe pulled up next him and guy leaned out and fired two shots into his head.

Police were called and rushed the gangster to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Frank Red Kreuger