Word: lombardos
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...September Tony Lombardo, racketeer, writhed to death on a Chicago pavement (TIME, Sept 17). It was agreed that his murder was retaliation for the Uale killing...
...targets were Tony Lombardo, president of the Italian-American Club, good friend of Alphonse' ("Scarface Al") Capone; and one of Mr. Lombardo's bodyguards, Joseph Ferrara. Mr. Lombardo lay down on the sidewalk and writhed until he died. Mr. Ferrara, wounded in the back, writhed until the ambulance came. He died in a hospital without telling who the murderers might...
When the shooting began, pedestrians screamed and scurried. Two men had walked up behind Gangster Lombardo and stood there emptying automatic revolvers at close range. When the shooting stopped, the crowds closed in again to stare at the victims and gabble at the police. The police caught one man, rushing along the street with a revolver in his hand. But he was Mr. Lombardo's other bodyguard, one Joseph Lolordo. The assassins had put their guns in their pockets, mingled with the mob, vanished...
...taken for granted that the Lombardo killing was retaliation for the death, two months ago of Frankie Uale (Yale), Brooklyn gangster (TIME, July 9). But, as in some 215 other Chicago murders during the past two years, no conviction was probable. Chicago police philosophy is to let the thugs shoot each other up and devil take the hindmost innocent bystander...
This decision is based on the principle of retroactivity, the new law having been passed in January, 1926, and made effective as from 1917. It was this procedure that the Supreme Court judges held contradicted the spirit of the constitution. Moreover, the President, Senor Lombardo held that the penalties were tantamount to confiscation (forfeiture without payment) and were therefore unconstitutional...