![]() ![]() ![]() When Crowley was captured, Police Commissioner E. Nothing like it had ever been seen before on the sidewalks of New York. ![]() Ten thousand excited people watched the battle. Crowley, crouching behind an overstuffed chair, fired incessantly at the police. Then they mounted their machine guns on surrounding buildings, and for more than an hour one of New York's fine residential areas reverberated with the crack of pistol fire and the rat-tat-tat of machine guns. They chopped holes in the roof they tried to smoke out Crowley, the "cop killer," with tear gas. One hundred and fifty policemen and detectives laid siege to his top-floor hideaway. After weeks of search, "Two Gun" Crowley - the killer, the gunman who didn't smoke or drink - was at bay, trapped in his sweetheart's apartment on West End Avenue. Chapter 1 "If You Want to Gather Honey, Don't Kick Over the Beehive" On May 7, 1931, the most sensational manhunt New York City had ever known had come to its climax. ![]()
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