Policeman in front of the drugstore where Vincent Coll was killed

Item Information

Title:
Policeman in front of the drugstore where Vincent Coll was killed
Description:
"The drug store on the lower west side of New York City in which Vincent Coll, 24 year old gangster, recently acquitted of the slaying of a five year old boy in the Harlem 'Baby Killing' last summer, was killed late in the evening of Feb. 7. Coll had entered a telephone booth and was phoning when a gunman entered with a machine gun and pumped L" bullets into his body. It is believed members of "Dutch" Schultz's gang, a rival in the beer racket, eliminated the notorious young gangster from police records."
Date:
[ca. February 7, 1932]
Format:
Photographs
Genre:
Glass plate negatives
Location:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Collection (local):
Alton H. Blackington Collection
Subjects:
Drugstores--New York (State)--New York--Photographs
Police--New York (State)--New York--Photographs
Gangsters--New York (State)--New York
Coll, Vincent, 1909-1932
Places:
New York
Extent:
1 photograph ; 8.5 x 10 cm
Link to Item:
http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/muph061-sl792-i001
Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
New York (N.Y.)
Language:
English
Identifier:
muph061-sl792-i001