On a hot August afternoon in 1931, the life of 27-year-old Herbert Hasse, a male taxi driver from the Bronx, came to a violent and ambiguous end. His death was the final act in a frantic and bloody ninety-minute saga that began with a payroll robbery and turned into a sprawling, twelve-mile gun battle through the streets of New York City. The incident, which left a total of six people dead, including two police officers and a child, would raise questions about Hasse's role, with his name simulta
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