After law enforcement got around to closing his stills, Livingston started a policy operation in a number of pool halls, paying better odds than his competitors. This could possibly be the reason he was rubbed out on May 1, 1930.
Livingston knew was put on the spot. A few months previously, on February 13, he was driving when a car pulled up along side him and peppered his car with a shotgun. He managed to pull over and get out and run.
Then end came in the Omaha apartment of Margaret Mack, which doubled as a speakeasy.. Livingston and his bodyguard, Bob Glasgow, had stopped in earlier for a drink and returned at about 4 A.M. "I'm pretty drunk and I'd like to stay here all night." Livingston told Mack. A few minutes later he stepped into the kitchen and there were a number of shots.
Glasgow ran into the kitchen and he was hit a number of times as well. His boss had been hit five times in the belly, possibly by a shotgun blast.
What exactly happened in the kitchen wasn't determined. It was thought that Livingston was shot from a window. But another version has it that the shots came from inside the apartment. No one involved bothered to straightened out the story.
Though wounded, Glasgow took his boss to the hospital where Livingston died a half hour later.
Gene Livingston
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