The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-01-21
|FOils Death
.TinesBut
Gas Is Fatal
Plotters, Holding
issuance Policy
Kill Victim
Had Heart Of Ok

NEW YORK, Jan. 20.-Mike NAL
10y was the stubbornest murder vic
tim New York ever saw.
- He just wouldn't die. Half dozen
men conspired to kill him. They did
practically everything but boil him
in oil. Everything they tried failed;
everything but gas. That got him.
Mike was nobody in particular; a
derelict, boozer, a hanger-around.
NORMALLY he was fireman, but he
Wasn't working. He was the last man
in the world anyone would want to
He had\no money.
But they murdered him, right
enough; tough as he was, they muir
dered him; and they burned for it.
They virtually ran the gamut of
murder methods, and then introduced
some novelties. A lesser fellow than
. Malloy would have come cropper
, at the first murder attempt. But his
! body was cast-iron His heart was
the heart of an OK.
They remember him today as
durable" Mike Malloy. Even so, the
adjective is too conservative. He was
virtually indestructible.
Four men-now dead from the
high voltage of Sing Sings death
chair-decided to murder Mike for
his money. Mike didn't have any,
but the murderers were able to fix
that. They merely took out an insur-
ance policy on his life.
ooR "a
kind of fellow who looked as though
he would live hundred years. He
was that durable
Plan His Death
Once the policy was in effect, the
murderers went busily to work to
get rid of Mike They didn't wish to
do anything so Grass as shooting. One
must not arouse an insurance COM
pany's suspicious. Death must ap-
pear natural.
They got him drunk-drunk as a
coot-and took him to Lonesome
road" They laid him on the road
way. They ran their motorcar back
ward and forward over him. That
certainly ought to do it.
They drove away, leaving drunk
en- Mike tMalloy dead in the street.
Dead? Not Mike; not durable" Mike
: Malloy!
He was picked up by passing car
shortly afterward and taken to a
hospital. Finally he recovered.
The murderers realized that here
was victim worthy of their steel.
They put their muderous heads to-
gether and decided to use Mixes
love for liquor as their next murder
weapon.
Feed Him "SmOke"
They gave him Carte Blanche at
a speakeasy-it was early in 1888
and with a great flourish of friend
ship told him to "drink on the
house" to his hearts conten. The
Liquor" was the Infamous ''smoke"
that was sold in dives of that time
a vile beverage that would burn the
pipes out of a boiler, almost.
But it wouldn't burn the pipes OF
Mike Malloy! He got fat on it. This
was the millennium. This was para
disc!
The assassins, foiled again, decid-
ed to really go to work on their
man. They fed him poisoned liquor.
They still didn't realize how well
Mike could take it. The poison didn't
mean thing to digestive tract like
Mikes.
By this time the killers were get
ting alarmed. They pictured them
selvevs as paying premiums on an
insurance policy of a man who
wouldn't die.
They decided that their next move
would be positive and thorough.
They got him drunk, which was no
trick. They again took him to a
lonesome road. They stripped him
of his clothes. They threw water
over him. Then they drove away,
leaving him in near zero weather
either to freeze to death or get a
fatal case of pneumonia.
They should have known better
Mike came through that one, too.
During all of these attempts al
murder, Mike didn't suspect any
thing. He was a simple soul. These
men were his pals. They gave him
liquor and fed him. They were
swell guys.
The swell guys, however, were
desperate now. Mike was proving 6
liability and a tax on their patience
No longer did they take so much
pains to have the murder look acct.
dental. The question now was to xii
Mike by WhatevermeanS could work
The answer was gas. That klllec
durable" Mike Malloy.