In Missouri we knew how to deal with fellows that repeatedly beat the law and justice. Look up the book “In Broad Daylight” about Ken McElroy, the bully of Skidmore, Missouri. His lawyer, also named McFaden, but with a different spelling, got Ken off almost 20 times from rape, shootings, rustling, and anything else you can think of.
His neighbors in Skidmore finally had enough and shot him dead on the main street of town one day and then just refused to talk about it for the next thirty-seven years.
A lot of the Kansas City mob moved to homes north of the Columbus Park area and the Northeast area where they grew up and centralized their crime. It was north of the Missouri River in Clay County and McFaden had an office there. A buddy of mine also used that attorney and told me that McFaden could fix almost anything. But he couldn’t keep Ken McElroy from getting killed once the population of Skidmore had had enough.
Best book ever-———and good riddance to a horrible guy.
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That is a fascinating story. I really have to get the book.