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Murder & Mayhem in Chicago's Downtown
In the company of author Troy Taylor, pull off the trick of coming back alive from some of Chicago's most infamous one-way rides." Meet the deadly womanizer Johann Hoch, who would propose to a woman within twenty minutes of meeting her and then poison her within a week. Follow "Terrible" Tommy O'Conner as he eluded the gallows for more than fifty years, until the city finally grew "tired of waiting" and dismantled them for the final time. Learn how even flower shops and cathedrals weren't safe from gangland violence, and relive the tragic fire at the Iroquois Theatre, where a "fireproof" curtain was made of cotton and did little to stop the blaze that killed more people than the Great Fire of 1871."
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Murder & Mayhem in Chicago's Downtown
In the company of author Troy Taylor, pull off the trick of coming back alive from some of Chicago's most infamous one-way rides." Meet the deadly womanizer Johann Hoch, who would propose to a woman within twenty minutes of meeting her and then poison her within a week. Follow "Terrible" Tommy O'Conner as he eluded the gallows for more than fifty years, until the city finally grew "tired of waiting" and dismantled them for the final time. Learn how even flower shops and cathedrals weren't safe from gangland violence, and relive the tragic fire at the Iroquois Theatre, where a "fireproof" curtain was made of cotton and did little to stop the blaze that killed more people than the Great Fire of 1871."
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Murder & Mayhem in Chicago's Downtown

Murder & Mayhem in Chicago's Downtown

by Troy Taylor
Murder & Mayhem in Chicago's Downtown

Murder & Mayhem in Chicago's Downtown

by Troy Taylor

Overview

In the company of author Troy Taylor, pull off the trick of coming back alive from some of Chicago's most infamous one-way rides." Meet the deadly womanizer Johann Hoch, who would propose to a woman within twenty minutes of meeting her and then poison her within a week. Follow "Terrible" Tommy O'Conner as he eluded the gallows for more than fifty years, until the city finally grew "tired of waiting" and dismantled them for the final time. Learn how even flower shops and cathedrals weren't safe from gangland violence, and relive the tragic fire at the Iroquois Theatre, where a "fireproof" curtain was made of cotton and did little to stop the blaze that killed more people than the Great Fire of 1871."

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781540234414
Publisher: History Press Library Editions
Publication date: 10/01/2009
Pages: 130
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.38(d)

About the Author

Troy Taylor is the author of more than seventy books on history, crime, mysteries and the supernatural in America. He was born and raised in Illinois and currently resides in an undisclosed location in Chicago.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 7

Introduction 9

Chicago's First "One-Way Ride" 31

"There's a Sucker Born Every Minute!" 37

Chicago's "Bluebeard" 43

Murder in a Flower Shop: The Assassination of Dion O'Banion 49

Death on the Cathedral Steps: The Last Stand of Earl "Hymie" Weiss 63

The Man They Never Hanged 69

The End of Jake Lingle 75

Murder of Judge Fetzer 91

Only a Matter of Time: The Inevitable Murder of Joseph Bolton 97

"Kiss of Death" McDonald: Murder at the Palace Theatre 103

Death of a Gangster Politician 109

The Killer in the Lumberjack Coat 113

Bibliography 121

About the Author 125

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