1930 headline newspaper GANGSTER Jack "Legs" Diamond shot at HOTEL in MANHATTAN

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1930 headline newspaper GANGSTER Jack "Legs" Diamond is shot at a HOTEL in MANHATTAN
- inv # 8Q-309
SEE PHOTO----- COMPLETE, ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the
El Paso Herald
(TX) dated Oct 14, 1930.
This newspaper contains a prominent inside page banner headline: "Jack "Legs" Diamond has Chance to Recover from Wounds."
This newspaper contains news coverage of the first assassination (of several) attempt by rival gangsters on Jack "Legs" Diamond, the infamous NY-NJ bootlegger and gangster.
Jack "Legs" Diamond (born Jack Diamond; July 10, 1897 – December 18, 1931), also known as Gentleman Jack, was an
Irish American
gangster in
Philadelphia
and
New York City
during the
Prohibition
era. A
bootlegger
and close associate of gambler
Arnold Rothstein
, Diamond survived a number of attempts on his life between 1916 and 1931, causing him to be known as the "clay pigeon of the underworld". In 1930, Diamond's nemesis
Dutch Schultz
remarked to his own gang, "Ain't there nobody that can shoot this guy so he don't bounce back?"
On October 12, 1930, Diamond was shot and wounded at the Hotel Monticello on the west side of Manhattan. Two men forced their way into Diamond's room, shot him five times, and then fled. Still in his pajamas, Diamond staggered out into the hallway and collapsed. When asked later by the New York Police Commissioner how he managed to walk out of the room, Diamond said he drank two shots of whiskey first. Diamond was rushed to the Polyclinic Hospital in Manhattan, where he eventually recovered. On December 30, 1930, Diamond was discharged from Polyclinic.
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