Drake Hotel Robbery : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Drake Hotel Robbery / Chicago Crime Scenes
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示 2.1 |
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| 説明 | The Drake is a swanky downtown hotel frequented by some of the most famous figures in the world, from Winston Churchill to Marilyn Monroe. Al Capone successor Frank Nitti even maintained his office here.Eric Nelson was a waiter here who hatched a plan to rob the hotel. On July 29, 1925, he and four other bandits, Joseph Holmes, William Mullenschuck, Ted "Tex" Court, and Jack Wilson, he burst into the Walton Street entrance and announced a stickup. Confused by the layout of the large hotel, they went around robbing employees when two gunshots rang out. A hotel detective had put two slugs in Tex, who staggered outside. Collapsing on the street, Lincoln Park police officer Patrick Hannigan shot the prone man three more times, killing him.Joe Holmes ran to the basement and got locked in a kitchen, but not before he killed the son of cashier. Holmes gun was now empty and another Lincoln Park cop wrestled him to the ground and arrested him.Nelson, Mullenschuck and Wilson ran into their car with $10,000 purloined from the hotel and sped north. They crashed into a trolley and split up. Nelson was shot in the head and killed by pursuing police.Mullenschuck and Wilson escaped but Wilson had a bad head wound. He hid his share of the money at a restaurant and went to hospital. There he was arrested--he had signed in under his own name rather than an alias.Mullenschuck was the only one who got away and was never found. Holmes and Wilson were condemned to hang on Feb. 13, 1926. Before he was executed, Wilson said, "We'd never done such a foolish thing if we had been sober."Located at 140 E. Walton St. |
| 撮影日 | 2015-10-18 13:16:24 |
| 撮影者 | Chicago Crime Scenes , Chicago, United States |
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| 撮影地 | Chicago, Illinois, United States 地図 |