    
Title: Alice Diamond Description: Alice Diamond, wife and widow of Jack "Legs" Diamond (1897-1931), American gang boss, who reportedly committed several murders; shot down by rival gangsters who entered his apartment in a seedy boarding house on tip-toe and fired 17 bullets into his head, chest, and torso on December 19, 1931; called "Legs" by his admiring friends because he was so fast on getaways as a boy criminal; police had to pry Mrs. Diamond away as she clung to the iron bed where her husband lay after the shooting, screaming, "He's mine! Let me stay with Jack!" Location: New York, New York, 1931 Keywords: bootleggers, gangsters, killings, murders, Prohibition, Volstead Act, 1930s, Great Depression. Orientation: Vertical Dimensions: 1200 x 2710 (3.25 MPixels) (2.26) Print Size: 10.2 x 22.9 cm; 4.0 x 9.0 inches File Size: 9.31 MB (9,767,066 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000096292 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection |
