In the next two episodes Aaron and I discuss Mob hits. We talk about tactics and discuss early hits called "Signboarding" a guy. I use 2 different early hits on Kansas City Missouri police officers. Another famous "hit" discussed is a planned execution interrupted by the accidental appearance of the Jackson County sheriff. Was Sheriff Tom Bash there by happenstance or plan?
Photo is Charles Gargotta being escorted to jail for the murder of Anthon Ferris. Courtesy of the Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, Missouri
 
 
Ballad of Tom Bash
We’ve a shire reeve in our shire
We’ve a chieftain in this town.
We’ve a good man, bad for bad men,
We’ve a law that’s not down
Home from the garden party,
Home from the grisly jail
Home to the home that was home indeed,
Drove the sheriff of our tale.
He had chatted with his fellows;
He had seen the bars were locked.
On the foolish ones in durance
For the statues they had mocked.
His car drew south on Forest
With Armour just ahead
When gun shots split he welkin
And a fugitive lay dead.
Out of the dark sprang the Sheriff
With a lawful gun for bane;
Full in the sweep of their lights and lead
He killed the killer’s twain
We’ve a shire reeve in our shire
We’ve a chieftain in our town.
We’ve a good man bad for bad men
We’ve a law that’s not yet down.
Anonymous

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