A Chicago Double

It was a two-fer for Chicago on this date back in 1931. Former dirty cop George Wilson's machine-gun perforated body was found by three girls who were walking near a railroad viaduct and James Quigley, a South Side saloon keeper, who was said to have been a one time member of Spike O'Donnell's gang but had recently broke out on his own with his own gang, was found floating in a drainage canal in about thirty minutes south of Chicago in the city of Lockport.

Thirty-three year old Wilson was kicked off the force in 1923 for shaking down wine merchants. Afterwards he may have been involved with the Druggan-Lake gang but may have had a falling out. It was reported that he had said, "If anything happens to me, George Druggan [brother of gang leader Terry Druggan] a week prior to his murder he was arrested for a robbery and posted bail.

Forty-Five year old Quigley was originally a railroad man who moved into the saloon business. After breaking with O'Donnell he tried carving out his own territory which put him at odds with O'Donnell and as well as the Saltis-McErlane gang. It was believed that Quigley killed Frank McErlane's chauffeur George Fitzgerald and that McErlane was the one who put him in the drainage canal with a bullet in the head.

  L.  George Wilson         R.  James Quigley