Killing of Willie Crowe, 'seventh victim' of the St. Louis war was a Indian Wars and Frontier Conflicts engagement fought in Missouri, 1923.
The killing of Willie Crowe, a gunman counted among the victims of the Egan-Hogan feud, was reported at the time as the seventh recent death in the St. Louis gang war, underscoring the steady toll the conflict took on both organizations. Crowe was found shot to death, and police ascribed the killing to the feud between the Egan's Rats and their rivals that had convulsed the city since Willie Egan's murder. Whether tallied to one side or the other, such deaths reflected the attritional character of the war, in which lieutenants and gunmen were eliminated one by one. The accumulation of killings like Crowe's, occurring even as leaders negotiated, pushed the exhausted factions toward the 1923 truce that finally ended the open fighting between the two gangs.
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