Clipped Wing(er)

On July 17, 1929, thirty-year old Eddie Winger (alias Newman), a gangster from Philadelphia, had just checked into a Lower East Side bath house. What he was doing in New York is unknown. Business? Perhaps. Hiding from rivals? Perhaps. After settling in, and presumably taking a bath, he ventured out and hooked up with man who has been forever remembered only as Louie.

The two men were walking along when a sedan pulled up and an occupant from within opened fire on Winger. Said gangster dropped wounded; Louie took a powder and was unscathed. Later at the hospital Winger would say only that he was with a guy named Louie. He died the next day saying no more. It's possible that a gunman from Philly named Patsy Morella followed him to New York and gave him the works.

Edward Winger