Jack Zuta

It was Friday, August First, 1930. A man whom everybody considered to be just another tourist from Chicago was popping quarters into a player piano at the Lake View Resort in Delafield...

As the sun set and an evening of music and dancing seemed to be at hand, five well dressed men toting machine guns marched through the back door of the ball room onto the dance floor and promptly poured a volley of bullets into the man at the piano. The horrified crowd stood stunned as the men then coolly turned and walked away, never to return.

As the police investigation soon revealed, the man at the piano was no ordinary tourist. Jack Zuta, an immigrant from Poland, was a well-known mobster in the North Side of Chicago. Having escaped an attack only a month earlier, the Gang boss and liquor trafficker was hiding from Al Capone, the archenemy of fellow gangster "Bugs" Moran. Zuta's death was related to a dog-racing fix run by Al Capone at the Mound Kennel Club, on Blue Mound Road.