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The Nome Daily Nugget
Nome, Nome County, Alaska
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Chicago gangster Louis 'Two-Gun' Alterie was shot and killed with shotgun slugs as he left his hotel on July 18. He died an hour later from nine wounds. Authorities blamed labor troubles; his wife Irma was unharmed but detained.
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CHICAGO, July 18. —Louis 'Two-Gun' Alterie big time gangster and supposedly the only one of any importance who survived this city's bloodiest bootlegging wars in the past was shot down as he left his hotel tonight. He died an hour later.
A blast of shotgun slugs dropped Alterie who was so seriously wounded he barely survived the ambulance ride.
His assassins missed his woman companion who was later identified as his wife Irma, aged 35.
Captain Daniel Gilbert, chief U. S. Attorney and the police blamed the slaying on labor troubles.
He was once the partner of the slain Dion O'Bannion notorious Chicago bootlegger.
Alterie had lately been elected as an official of the janitors union Gilbert said.
He died without making any statements as to who his assassins might have been. The doctors said that nine slugs struck him.
His wife was taken into custody by the police tonight. At one time Alterie was known as an underling of Capone.
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Chicago
Event Date
July 18
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alterie killed by nine shotgun slugs; wife unharmed and taken into custody.
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Louis 'Two-Gun' Alterie, a big time gangster and survivor of Chicago's bootlegging wars, was shot down with a blast of shotgun slugs as he left his hotel tonight. He was seriously wounded, barely survived the ambulance ride, and died an hour later without identifying his assassins. The slaying was blamed on labor troubles by Captain Daniel Gilbert and police. Alterie was once partner of Dion O'Bannion and an underling of Capone, and had been elected an official of the janitors union.