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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 1 of 2 1 2 Robbery with violins #56707 02/13/02 03:25 PM Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 1 M MrSoHugeList OP stranger OP MrSoHugeList stranger M Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 1 When did you stop committing violence against your partner? Please sign this petition to confirm your position as a member of the human race. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Robbery with violins #56708 02/13/02 04:12 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 W wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Dear MrSoHugeList: I have read that one of Al Capone's men named Sam Hunt originated idea of using violin case to carry a submachine gun. Have you stopped beating your wife yet? Answer yes or no. I decline to sign petitions. They could be used against me. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Robbery with violins #56709 02/13/02 04:23 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 M maverick Carpal Tunnel maverick Carpal Tunnel M Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 violin case to carry a submachine gun I think you're right on both counts, Bill - the St Valentines Day massacre featured this ruse, I believe, and worked as a case of entrapment too. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: St Valentines Day massacre #56710 02/13/02 04:28 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 2,605 K Keiva Carpal Tunnel Keiva Carpal Tunnel K Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 2,605 St Valentines Day massacre: probably the single thing for which my home town was best know, prior to the coming of Michael Jordan. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Robbery with violins #56711 02/13/02 05:46 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 W wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Dear Mav: Now I've got to re-write the family genealogy. I got the violin-case bit from Readers' Digest story many years ago. But I searched just now, and found cousin Sam carried sawed off shotgun in a golf bag. http://www.alleged-mafia-site.com/biographies/hunt.htm Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Robbery with violins #56712 02/13/02 05:53 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 shotgun in a golf bag. They won't let me in Dr. Bill. Must be I don't know the right password. I tried "sorda feesh" but that didn't work. So did your cousin Sam have a caddy to carry the golf bag? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Robbery with violins #56713 02/13/02 06:09 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 W wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Dear Faldage: It works for me. Guess it's family thing. Pax tibicum, cousin Sam. He needed no caddy. He made holes in fifteen ones. Sam (McPherson) Hunt d. 1956 Chicago gangster & murderer. Credited with the murders of at least 15 men, Hunt worked for Al Capone as a top "hit man" in Chicago. He was also involved in Capone's gang war with gangster George "Bugs" Moran. In 1927, while investigating a shooting along Chicago's Lake Michigan shore, police came upon "Machine-Gun Jack" McGurn & Hunt, who was toting a golf bag that containeed golf clubs and a semi-automatic shotgun. Police were unable to link McGurn & Hunt with any crime. Hunt quickly received the nickname "Golf Bag." Hunt served as a pallbearer at Capone's funeral in 1944. In 1956, Hunt died in bed of natural causes. And I didn't inherit the golf bag. Sob! Sob! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Robbery with violins #56714 02/13/02 08:07 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 2,605 K Keiva Carpal Tunnel Keiva Carpal Tunnel K Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 2,605 violin case to carry a submachine gun - the St. Valentines Day massacre featured this ruse Actually, the practice long predates 1920's Chicago, and traces back to England in the middle ages. The Saxons, adept at playing the Angles, adopted the ruse of thus concealing their primitive weapons, in order to take the neighboring tribes unaware. This practice is de-Picted in contemporaneous writings, whence originates the longstanding tradition of Saxon Violins in the popular media. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Robbery with violins #56715 02/13/02 11:37 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 B belMarduk Carpal Tunnel belMarduk Carpal Tunnel B Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 And I didn't inherit the golf bag. Sob! Sob! Ah Bill, a man who has his priorities right. I may be remembering wrong but didn't JFK's golf clubs go for an inordinate amount of cash at auction? A known gangster's would have brought in a hefty take I'd think. Unless you wanted to PLAY with them? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Robbery with violins #56716 02/14/02 12:05 AM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 W wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Dear belMarduk: My arthritis won't let me play golf. But think of the sensation I could create strolling onto a ritzy golf course with a 1920's bag and set of clubs. And if anyone dared laugh, I could get out the sawed off shotgun. 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