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The Death of a Man Who Looked Like Mike
They would scour other low life speakeasies, find someone who kind of sort of looked like Mike, get him drunk and have her she smash him with his cab. The plan was to put a fake identity card and some coins in his pocket and let someone else find the body. So on January 6, 1933, they went to Harlem and started looking much to their surprise. They found someone who looked almost exactly like Mike and they laughed at their good fortune. His name was Joseph Patrick Murray. He had been born in San Francisco, but had moved with his parents to Ireland as a child. It being the great depression, they offered him a job and he was down and out