Word: offing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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But Touhy was removed from the scene in quite another way. In the summer of 1933, John ("Jake the Barber") Factor, a professional swindler and crony of Capone mobsters, was stopped as he drove away from a roadhouse by seven gunmen in a Duesenberg and two other cars. Twelve days...
Many people came to believe his story that he had been framed. Miller, an ex-policeman who had been Factor's bodyguard, switched his allegiance to Touhy when he found what he called positive evidence that the kidnap story was fraudulent. In a 1954 rehearing of the case, Federal...
$3,000,000 Suit. On his last evening alive, Touhy met Bodyguard Miller, Reporter Brennan and a representative of his publisher in Chicago's Press Club to worry over the fact that many booksellers were afraid to sell his book because of a $3,000,000 libel suit brought...
In contrast to his classic, gang-style death, Roger Touhy was buried quietly, with no flowers, no eulogies, in Mount Carmel Cemetery, known as the Boot Hill of gangsters. Near by are the tombs of Frank ("The Enforcer") Nitti and Paul ("Needle Nose") La Briola. Dion O'Banion is...