Three men watched Nitti die. A freight train was passing the spot he had chosen as the death scene. Members of the crew saw him fire the fatal shot and heard his dying gasp. Unaware that the dead man was the notorious Frank Nitti, they reported the shooting to police and rode on with...
OnDecember 19, 1932, a team of Chicago police, headed by Detective Sergeants Harry Lang and Harry Miller, raided Nitti’s office in Room 554, at221 N. LaSalle Street in Chicago. Lang shot Nitti three times in the back and neck. He then shot himself (a minor flesh wound) to make the...