Bismarck Tribune, 16 July 1930, page 3: Detroit gang guns get tenth victim
Detroit Gang Guns Get Tenth Victim
- Paper
- The Bismarck Tribune (Bismarck, N.D.)
- Date
- 1930-07-16
- Page
- Page 3
- Headline
- Detroit Gang Guns Get Tenth Victim
- Rights
- A United States newspaper published in 1930 or earlier. Public domain in the United States. The Library of Congress serves the page from Chronicling America.
Page 3 of the Bismarck Tribune for Wednesday, 16 July 1930. At the foot of the first column is “Detroit Gang Guns Get Tenth Victim,” credited to the Associated Press and datelined Detroit, July 16.
It reports that David Overstein, “formerly identified with the notorious purple gang,” was found shot to death in an alley at 6 a.m., the tenth victim of gang guns in less than two weeks, and that police said he had recently been engaged in liquor operations.
The description of Overstein is the wire service’s. The item names no suspect.