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Chicago, Feb. 23—(AP— Warned a month ago by rival bootlegging gangsters that if he stepped outside his home he would never return alive Frank Leon at. ti took a chance today. He walked twenty feet from his own front door and two bullets from the revolver of a stranger cut him dotvn. He died before police arrived.Leonatti was the keeper of the “hangout” for the notorious “Forty-Two” gang It was a soft drink place, and he also owned the Pleasure Inn. a roadhouse near Elgin. The soft drink place was on the south side.He had twice been seized by police, once in connection with a west side murder, and again 011 a charge oi attempting to force a young girl into an immoral life. Leonatti was 40 years old and police said he was a cousin of the wife of “Diamond Jolt;* Esposito, widely known politician land restaurant owmer.
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Dixon Evening Telegraph
Dixon, Illinois, US
Thu, Feb 23, 1928
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