(June 9, 2012 at 12:20 pm)Ziploc Surprise Wrote: New poll says Only 26% of Irish Catholics believe in transubstantiation.Nitti was shot and the police alleged that Nitti had made an attempt with a gun towards the officers. Nitti spent months in hospital recovering. It was found out that Nitti was set up. Miller reported that his partner had been paid $15,000 to kill Nitti. (Some say Mayor Anton Cermak paid to have Nitti killed) Nitti was unarmed at the time when Lang first shot himself in the hand and then shot Nitti in the abdomen. After a trial both policemen were fired from the force. Nitti was thrust in the news and was now what the newsmen needed to fill the crime beat after Al Capone had been sent away. It was assumed that Nitti was now the real power behind the Chicago "Outfit". As a matter of fact in 1937 Frank Nitti and three associates controlled all of Cook County gambling. He also began what was said to be a "purge" of the outfit by eliminating anyone who might cause him or the outfit trouble. (Jack McGurn,Fred Goetz,Gus Winkeler,Jack White etc....). He did manage to branch out into other things besides gambling, especially now that the liquor days were over. In 1941 the Nitti mob had made net profits of $139,000 per month. Vice and unions were also supplying more cash for the outfit. At first, restaurants, hotels, bars, then (their downfall) in the form of extortion from Hollywood studios soon followed suit. Nitti and his co-horts were charged for the $2,500,000 shakedown of four major picture producers. Paul Ricca ,Louis Campagna and others were also charged and faced jail time. In a sitdown with Ricca and company, Nitti was demeaned by Ricca in front of the others and told how" he had let the outfit down" and that since "Nitti being the originator" of this shakedown that he" Nitti should gallantly face the prison time alone", in place of the others who let him be in charge. He was also told that it was he who trusted a stool pigeon by the name of Willie Bioff who turned them all over to the FBI. Nitti was dumbfounded on how they treated him and that they could care less about what good profits he had brought over the years to the outfit. After the meeting, Nitti felt alone and began thinking of the prison time ahead which frightened him. He began to think of a way out. On March 19,1943, Frank Nitti makes sure his wife Antoinette is on her way to Our Lady of Sorrows church to make a novena. Frank went to the liquor cabinet and started to drink up the nerve for what he was about to do. While drinking, he loads a .32 caliber revolver and puts it in his coat pocket. He puts on his brown derby and exits the door. While walking as the effects of alcohol begin to numb, Frank crosses over to the railway yard.Two Trainmen, William F. Sebauer and Lowell M.Barnett notice Frank walking drunkly across the tracks. He walked on the tracks of their oncoming train.They thought he would be killed ,but instead see that he is walking over to the next track just then Seebauer yelled "Hey there Buddy!" and then two shots were heard.The trainmen thought he was shooting at them,but they quickly realized he was trying to end his life. Frank Nitti sat on the ground along a railway fence and paused. One of the trainmen suggested charging the suicidal person. The other stated it was too risky for them, being family men, and especially since the person in question was drunk with a loaded weapon. Frank lifted the gun one more time and placed the pistol to his head. A shot rang out just as quickly as the life oozed out of the aging gangster. It was later stated that Frank may have also been suffering from cancer. Frank Nitti left behind his third wife Antoinette and his adopted 9 year old son Joseph adopted with his previous wife Anna. Nitti was also known as a good family man ,husband and doting father. On the family monument is the inscription "There is no life except by death""There is no vision but by faith "
“If they don’t believe in transubstantiation then they are not Roman Catholics,” Prof Dawkins said. “If they are honest they should say they are no longer Roman Catholics.”
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