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" Final Resting Place of Frank McErlane"

Frank McErlane  1894 - 1932

Frank McErlane, 1920s Chicago gangster who introduced the Tommygun to gang warfare in 1925. A colorful and crazed character who murdered his mistress and her two dogs and who was once arrested while drunkenly firing a shotgun at imaginary enemies on a Chicago street, McErlane was the bootlegging partner of "Polack Joe" Saltis and a sometime ally of Capone. He died of pneumonia in a Beardstown, IL hospital in 1932 (contrary to all expectations, of course).
Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Alsip, IL (Chicago suburb).

Info & Photo courtesy of Rick Mattix.