Assassination of Hymie Weiss was a Indian Wars and Frontier Conflicts engagement fought in Illinois, 1926.
North Side gang leader Earl 'Hymie' Weiss and companion Patrick Murray were shot dead by concealed gunmen as they crossed the street toward Holy Name Cathedral, with several others in the party wounded. The ambush, staged from rented rooms overlooking the approach to O'Banion's old flower-shop headquarters, was Capone's answer to Weiss's relentless attacks, including the Hawthorne Inn motorcade weeks earlier. Weiss had succeeded O'Banion as the most aggressive prosecutor of the war against Capone, and his death passed leadership of the North Side outfit to George 'Bugs' Moran and Vincent Drucci. The killing, carried out with careful surveillance and crossfire in front of a landmark church, exemplified the planned assassination methods of the beer wars and briefly opened peace talks before the feud resumed and led toward the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
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