Bismarck Tribune, 2 July 1928, page 1: Machine guns mow down Frank Yale in Brooklyn

Front page of the Bismarck Tribune, Monday, 2 July 1928. The headline reads “Gangster Dies with Diamonds and Boots On,” with the decks “Machine Guns Mow Down Alleged Slayer of Colosimo and Dion O’Banion” and “Was Friend of Police.”

The Associated Press story, datelined New York, 2 July, says Chicago gangsters were sought for the killing of Frank Yale on a Brooklyn street the day before. It says a black sedan with an Illinois license plate drew alongside Yale’s car in the Borough Park section and that shots from a submachine gun and shotguns broke the windows; it describes Yale as a friend of Al Capone and the man Chicago police blamed for the 1920 Colosimo and 1924 O’Banion killings. It adds that it was not apparent whether the shooting was connected with the death of “Big Tim” Murphy in Chicago the week before.

The headline’s phrase “alleged slayer” reports a police theory, not an established fact, and this archive does not adopt it. The page is filed as a next-day report of the Brooklyn shooting. Headline as read from the Library of Congress OCR text of the page.