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A bit of Detroit History... Our friend, music producer/drummer Tino Gross sent us his Uncle Harry's Detroit Police mug-shot from the book "Detroit's Infamous Purple Gang' ...
Harry Gross was a Purple and was shot Thanksgiving Eve 1937 along with leader Harry Millman. The old-timers around Detroit have told Tino that Harry was a sweetheart, a gambler, not muscle, and was tight with entertainers like Cab Calloway.
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Harry Millman
Harry Gross was a Purple and was shot Thanksgiving Eve 1937 along with leader Harry Millman. The old-timers around Detroit have told Tino that Harry was a sweetheart, a gambler, not muscle, and was tight with entertainers like Cab Calloway.
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Harry Millman was shot to death before a crowd of horrified customers at Boesky's Restaurant in Detroit on November 25, 1937. Two gunmen approached Millman, who was standing at the bar and opened fire. Millman was hit 10 times. Several other people were also shot, including Harry Gross, a partner of Millman's in the handbook business. Gross later died of his wounds.
2 comments:
Kimmer you always have the best stuff-You take a lot of time with this site-it IS appreciated and i am in awe of you
Harry was my father's cousin. My father was a kid that ran with the Purples. Harry died in my uncle's arms.
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