# Bismarck Tribune, 11 November 1924, page 1: Rich Chicago criminal is shot to death

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The Bismarck Tribune's front page of 11 November 1924 carries a dispatch from Chicago on the shooting of Dion O'Bannion in his flower shop.

Front page of the Bismarck Tribune, Tuesday, 11 November 1924. The page is led by Armistice Day news and the opening of the state corn show; the Chicago story is a column headed "Rich Chicago Criminal Is Shot to Death," with the decks "Killed by Three Unknown Men Calling on Him in His Flower Store" and "Had Made Millions."

The dispatch, datelined Chicago, 11 November, reports that Dion O'Bannion (the page's spelling; the OCR sometimes misreads it) was shot and killed in his floral shop "yesterday." It says the shooting, according to employees, ended a conversation between him and three unidentified visitors; that police learned of no witnesses, the employees having gone into a rear room as he walked to the front; and that they found him on the floor with two bullet wounds. It says he died without making a statement, and that police developed two theories, a beer-runners' war or vengeance for old scores.

The dispatch's statements about his wealth, his alibis and his past are the paper's and are not taken here. This archive uses the page only as the first-day wire report from a distant newspaper. Headline as read from the Library of Congress OCR text of the page.

## Sources

- Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn85042243/1924-11-11/ed-1/?sp=1
- Library of Congress OCR text of this page: https://tile.loc.gov/text-services/word-coordinates-service?segment=/service/ndnp/ndhi/batch_ndhi_bajoran_ver01/data/sn85042243/00199918606/1924111101/0869.xml&format=alto_xml&full_text=1