Daily News front page November 15, 1929, Headline: SLOT MA

UNITED STATES - NOVEMBER 15: Daily News front page November 15, 1929, Headline: SLOT MACHINE KING MEETS TORTURE DEATH, Dies By Torture...Paid killers who sliced off victim's ear to be sure of collecting bounty burned every portion of body of Mortie Schubert, 31, king of slot machine racket, before they killed him with six bullets yesterday. Body was found in auto at 3041 Broadway. it bore marks of branding iron. Commissioner Whalen at scene., Yearns For Peace... Tired of furor his marriage to family servant has evoked, young William W. Willock Jr., heir to $120,000,000, hopes to leave for Florida soon with his wife in flivver truck. he's at work in Oyster Bay garage., In Mystery Shooting...Unidentified man ran up to car in which John Ancona, auto dealer of Corona, Queens sat with Ada King at Bayside, Queens, early yesterday, and shot Ancona in stomach. Victim died later., Win Custody of Son...Motherhood triumphant shone in Olga E. Edwards' eyes yesterday when acress left Children's court in possession of son Lee, 6. She was arrested on extortion charge by nathan L. Amster, elderly traction magnate, whom she accuses of being father of lee. She made blunt statement of the relationship to Justice Samuel D. Levy in Children's court, in waging successful battle for son's custody. Amster denies paternity of boy. (Photo by NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)