Word: bannion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bugs" Moran, the proprietor of the garage, was not among the dead. He was spending St. Valentine's Day in Detroit. Moran inherited the North Side mob from "Schemer" Drucci, who inherited it from "Hymie" Weiss, who inherited it from the late great Dion O'Bannion. The perforated bodies were those of Moran's brother-in-law and co-leader, James Clark; No. 1 Gunman Peter Gusenberg, Con-Man John Snyder, Gorilla Al Weinshank, John May, the man in overalls, and Reinhart Schwimmer. Frank Gusenberg, Pete's "Kid" brother, carrying 20 bullets, lived for three hours...
Died. Dion O'Bannion, 32, hierarch of crooks, gangsters, gunmen, shot by three unidentified young men in his flower store, Chicago. At his interment were 26 truckloads of flowers, 1,000 automobiles, 10,000 people. His body reposed in a $10,000 coffin overlaid with gold and silver filigree, heaped with flowers said to have cost over $25,000. Largest offering of all was a seven-foot wall of carnations labeled, "To our pal-from the gang." Because the doors of the Holy Name Cathedral (where he once served as an altar boy) were closed against the funeral, "services...