When five men tried to murder "Iron Mike" with increasingly poisonous drinks

In January nineteen thirty-three, five Bronx acquaintances—later dubbed 'the Murder Trust' by the press—took out a life insurance policy on Michael Malloy, a homeless Irish former firefighter, insuring him for thirty-five hundred dollars. Boing Boing reports they then began attempting to collect the payout by convincing him to drink increasingly poisonous beverages.

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