Brownsville Herald, 6 July 1930, page 2: Gangland guns bark and two leaders die
Gangland Guns Bark and Two Leaders Die
- Paper
- Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, Tex.)
- Date
- 1930-07-06
- Page
- Page 2
- Headline
- Gangland Guns Bark and Two Leaders Die
- 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 2 of the Brownsville Herald for Sunday, 6 July 1930. In the third column is “Gangland Guns Bark and Two Leaders Die,” credited to the Associated Press and datelined Cleveland, July 5.
It reports that Joe Porrello, “Cleveland bootleg sugar baron,” and Cam Tilocco, his first lieutenant, were shot dead, Porrello “while near the door in the restaurant of Frank Milano.” It says Porrello “gained control of the bootleg sugar business when gangland killed ‘Big Joe’ and John Lonardo in October 1927,” and that he and six brothers combined with Sam “Blackjack” Todaro, “according to police.”
The account of the sugar business is the police’s, as the wire service gave it. The page says nothing about any role of Frank Milano in the shooting; it names his restaurant as the place. Other AP versions spell the lieutenant “Sam Tilocco” and the surname “Porello.”