Now Im going to show you one high-speed car chasing, but this time it involves only gangsters.
The year of 1928 was also the year when Al Capone literally controlled hundreds of professional shooters and killers from all around the country and had the power to kill anyone around the world, including politicians, but still New York's Frankie Yale was different since he was one of their own and was also a killer in his own right, who in turn controlled his own small army and generated a fortune. In plane words, Capone was backed by other higher ups within the New York Mafia aka the Masseria clan, so he can execute the contract on Yale’s life and again he also needed and inside info regarding Yale’s activities.
As any other high profile mobster, Yale always had a couple of armed bodyguards beside him and often stayed at his headquarters which was the Sunrise Club, located at 14th Avenue and 65th Street, New York. Even though Capone and Chicago's West Side faction had close connections in New York, still they controlled a different city at the time, and obviously weren’t aware of Yale’s everyday routines in NY and my personal belief is that the main person who provided the Capone Mob with the needed information was Louis "Little New York" Campagna. As I previously stated that during those days, Capone controlled many hit teams but his main guys regarding the “murder racket” were Tony Capezio, Vincenzo Gibaldi a.k.a. Jack McGurn, John Moore a.k.a. Claude Maddox and William Heeney. You see, Capezio and Gibaldi were both fearless and murderous gangsters and as for Heeney and Maddox, well these two fellas had connections to many professional killers from around the Midwest, who in turn were labelled by the media and press as the “American Boys”.
Obviously since Yale was no easy target, the boys decided to use few "out of town" killers and called one of their most skilful associates such as former St. Louis gangster Fred Burke, who in turn supplied the guns. The hit team allegedly also included Maddox, Heeney and Campagna. No one knew Burke, Maddox or Heeney around the New York area, which made them the perfect executioners for the job.
The killers stalked Yale for almost a month, just to learn his everyday routines and to possibly confirm Campagna’s inside info. The main info was that Yale had a new young wife by the name of Lucy and together they had 1 year old daughter. They allegedly knew that Yale was very sensitive and carrying towards Lucy so the hit team decided to take an advantage of his weakness.
One Sunday afternoon, on July 1, 1928, Yale was playing cards at his Sunrise Club, located at 14th Avenue and 65th Street, when suddenly he received a cryptic phone call. The caller said something was wrong with Lucy and his daughter and that he should come home fast. In a panic moment, Yale took off with his brown colored Lincoln coupe without his bodyguards. Yale drove up to New Utrecht Avenue, where the hit men in their Buick sedan drove next to him. Yale noticed the hit squad and took off west onto 44th Street, with the Buick close behind him. The chase continued but Yale's car was soon overtaken by the Buick, whose occupants riddled Yale with bullets. Yale lost control of his car and crashed into a stoop of a brownstone at No. 923. He opened the door of his car and fell to ground. One of the hit men got out of their car and pumped few more bullets into Yale’s body.
So the job was done and the assassins left the scene and drove nearly three blocks away where they abandoned their car and left on foot. Later the cops found the abandoned Buick and inside they found a .38 caliber revolver, a .45 automatic, a sawed-off pump shotgun, and a Thompson submachine gun.
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