When five men tried to murder "Iron Mike" with increasingly poisonous drinks
The Murder Trust fed Michael Malloy poison, tacks, and a taxi at 45 mph for $3,500 in insurance. He kept surviving.
In January 1933, five Bronx acquaintances — the press later called them "the Murder Trust" — took out life insurance policies on Michael Malloy, a homeless Irish former firefighter, and set out to collect the $3,500 (about $87,000 today) by getting him to drink himself to death. Spea…
