What the Cab Driver Forgot

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🗓️ 26 September 2016

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Crane Neck Nugent, Prohibition Trigger -
The Gangster Chronicles 2.1
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YESTERDAY'S NEWS
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A reading from historic newspapers in the golden age of yellow journalism
The second volume of The Gangster Chronicles explores one of the many side effects of the Great Experiment, America's Prohibition on alcohol.
I’ve often contended that Prohibition made criminals out of a lot of ordinary people who just wanted to drink and serve drinks. But it also gave some truly bad men an opportunity to misbehave.
Although he had one of the worst nicknames names ever, Raymond "Crane Neck" Nugent, was one of the most ruthless of the era's gangsters.
At 25, he went to trial for the murder of a bootlegger, and when the witness who came forward right after the event changed his mind at the trial -- well, we’ll look at that here in Chapter One.
Before his own demise, Nugent would be suspected in at least 15 high-profile murders, including the most famous gangland massacre of the Prohibition era. Yeah, he was probably one of the guns at the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.
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0:00.0	Cincinnati, Ohio, October 18th, 1924.
0:15.0	Miss Blanche Post, 42 years old, was at the fishing camp when the fight between Edward S. Nagel, Jr.,
0:26.6	and Asher Pickens, the 34-year-old insurance agent, took place.
0:32.6	Miss Post said she went to the camp early Friday with a man.
0:41.4	During the morning, Pickens and a party of men came to the camp.
0:48.4	Early in the afternoon, Nagel and his father, Edward Nagel, Sr., from Newport, arrived.
0:53.1	I owned the camp, Nagel told police at the time of his arrest.
0:56.5	Last Friday, I went there with my father and found the party in progress. The men were strangers to me, but I knew Miss Post. I became angry because
1:03.2	they were drinking two barrels of beer I had been saving. Pickens, whom I did not know, invited me to
1:09.5	have a drink. I told him I owned the beer and that
1:12.5	someone would have to pay for it. That started the argument. We had a fight. The other men
1:18.8	scattered around the camp while we fought. The fight lasted only a few minutes, and Pickens was on his
1:24.7	feet when I left with my father before any of the others.
1:28.7	According to witnesses, after Pickens had invited Nagel to have a drink, Nagle demanded to know his name.
1:35.8	Pickens was eating steak and eggs at the time. My name's eggs, he replied.
1:41.9	Your name will be mud if you don't pay for that beer, retorted Nagel.
1:46.3	Then the combatants moved outside of the camp.
1:50.0	Nagel was said to have knocked Pickens down.
1:53.0	When the insurance agent arose, Nagel seized him,
1:56.7	and indicating a clump of trees near the camp, said,
2:00.7	Take a good look at those trees. It's the last time you'll ever see them.
2:05.9	He turned to the other members of the party. That goes for you guys, too.
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