In Chicago, tit-for-tat violence between the Genna Gang and the North Side Gang takes out Michele “Mike the Devil” Genna, leader of the Genna Gang. A shoot-out between the two gangs is followed by one with the cops, two of whom are killed, Genna receiving a fatal bullet in the leg. Time is running out on the Genna brothers as a force in gangland, and I think you can guess who the beneficiary of that will be (hint: he has a scar on his face).
A Brooklyn judge refuses to approve the incorporation of the Hwerchnedneprowsker Progressive Society, because “the name is un-American” and the organizers don’t even seem to be from Hwerchnedneprowsker. Which, as far as I can tell, isn’t an actual place, so the Hwerchnedneprowsker Progressive Society remains a mystery.
Love the detail that Genna "hurled himself through a basement window in the home of Mrs. Eleanor Knoblauch", although how a guy dies of a leg wound is rather puzzling. I'm thinking they just let him bleed to death.
ReplyDeleteSupposedly the bullet hit an artery although, yeah, they probably took the scenic route to the hospital.
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