On Valentine's Day, February 14, 1929 between the verse and chorus of the song, "Ain't Misbehavin," a shriek of, "My tit is fallin' outta my gown you big galoot!" could be heard over the giggling and drunken chaos of the Clark Street speakeasy. Flossie Braun with her red hair curled close to her face spat at the goon hoisting her by the arms to the wall. Sure enough Flossie's forlorn breast and curious little nipple hung it's head woefully out the side of her satin and beaded gown...she was helpless to tuck it back in because every time she tried she was smacked hard on the hand.
"L.l.leave itttt out lady, nnnnothing gets put under wraps unless III say so," the big goon called Stuttering Al slapped at her hand but not before giving the exposed nipple a furious little flick of his finger causing her to screech even louder. She was followed by 5 other decked out prostitutes all summoned there under false pretenses to "entertain" what they thought were going to be the boys from the Moran gang, with whom they were employed. Instead it was Capone's goons (Moran's rivals) who surprised them at the door and then ushered the apoplectic women to the back room, all of them caterwauling about death and missed appointments.
Addie Fischer, a small dark haired girl was the only one who remained completely impassive and instead fingered the green beads hanging down between her breasts while she sized up the dire situation they were in. "Hands up against the wall ladies, we intend to do a little search," Vinny "the horse" whistled through his buck teeth, but not before pushing a knee between Addie's legs and forcing them widely apart.
"If it's your mother you're looking for, I saw her last night with her face pressed up against my ass, you stupid prick," she said, with a wiggle of her ass, pressing her hands firmly against the rough red brick wall to prevent from falling.
Maggie Malloy kept her curly blonde hair wrapped around her finger and through great gasps of nervous giggling kept asking to use the phone. "Listen lady, there's no telephones in hell and if you don't shut to fuck up you'll be shaking hands with the devil before you can say Bugs Morgan," Marco's big rounded hand, the size of a shovel, grasped at her buttocks and projected her a couple of feet forward with an excited, "ooh!" until she could feel the rough bricks pressing her nose.
There was an instance of chaos when Addie turned and kneed one of her captors in the balls and made for the door. She was instantly stopped by a distinguished looking man, "Gentleman" Vic Petruchio escorting in the notorious cock sucker, only known by her first name, Tess. "Listen lady, I love it rough. The rougher the better, but if you know what's good for you, enjoy these last moments of your life." Addie was shoved violently to the wall where she was licked from the back of her shoulder up to her ear and then goosed hard on the ass.
"Pig!" Was the only thing Addie could utter, her fear cutting off her usual constant line of obscenities and insults. Tess gave Addie a wary look and the two held hands as they waited for what was sure to be a firing squad.
The last two of their group were called "the twins", they were completely unrelated but did everything and EVERYONE together and now sobbed in unison, as they each, Dottie and Betty Lou, dragged their satin shod feet into the dimly lit storage room followed by a gun toting 19 year old pimpled faced hooligan named Tony. A commotion in the corner behind the whiskey barrels erupted as one of the men dragged an unknown girl from the darkness by a handful of blonde curly hair. None of the other girls seemed to recognize sweet Katy McCafferty, the proprietor's wife and manager of the speakeasy.
"Where the hell did she come from?" said Vic unlatching the back door to let in a couple of others carrying violin cases. "I thought the place was supposed to be empty. No matter, stick her ass up against the wall with the rest of the whores," he said signaling to one of the other guys.
Sweet Katy landed on her elbows from the boot in the ass delivered by one of the two new visitors. Scurrying to her feet, she found herself pressed to the wall with three ladies on each side, all apparently terrified, looking to her for answers. Two of the men had withdrawn machine guns from the violin cases and most of the women now realized that they were somehow caught up in a gangland dispute that had nothing to do with them personally. Within minutes they all expected to be dead.
"Who the hell are you and what do you want with us?" Katy managed to find a voice for what every one of the other women, including her, wanted to know.
"It's really simple lady, they all work for Moran and we intend to control prostitution on both sides of the city. When we are finished here there won't be a whore in town that won't get the message. And YOU just happen to be in a bad place and the wrong time now didn't ya lady?" Vinny hissed as he breathed out "lady" with a fog of whiskey and garlic into her unflappable face as he fingered one of her impertinent curls.
Katy coughed in disgust, " Listen, dead we're useless to Moran and Capone! Alive, we can make your world spin. Why don't you come up with something we all might like and you won't end up spending the rest of the day cleaning up after your own mess." Katy played with his lapels, her fingers rubbing the material as she might tease his balls with her tongue. Then she turned coquettishly towards the wall and pressed her full breasts into the brick with a smile and lick of her lips. There was baboonish laughter amongst the gangsters as they eyed each other hungrily and then looked at the meat that was lined up before their very eyes. Katy smiled dreamily, the beguiling look in her eyes masking the revulsion and the fearful quiver in her lips.
Maggie stared blankly at the brick wall counting the lines that went horizontally across and then counting the vertical lines and then giggling and starting over, everyone seemed to miss that she was stoned out of her mind. The "twins" stopped their crying and held hands again, looking hopefully over their soft shoulders. Addie and Tess licked their lips at the boys. Flossie broke the ridiculous charade by shouting out, "There ain't no way I'm touching one of these filthy, dirty pigs...see this fellas? " She held her tit in her hand and shook it at them...this is the only private part of me that you're ever gonna see!" The men threw back their heads in bombastic laughter, the echoes of their voices permeating the dank, closeness of the room.