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Samuel J. "Nails" Morton (1894-May 13, 1923) was a gunman of Dion O'Banion's Northside gang. A World War I veteran he had received the French Croix de Guerre and promoted to Lieutenant by the wars end. Morton is most noted for the revenge carried out by the Northside mob after his death. Morton, who was fond of horseback riding, was thrown from his horse while riding in Lincoln Park and trampled to death. Members of the Northside mob, including Bugs Moran, Vincent Drucci, Hymie Weiss, and Louis Alterie took the horse from the stables and, leading it upon the spot where Morton was killed, shot the horse "with four slugs to the head". This would later be reenacted by James Cagney in the film The Public Enemy after Cagney's character kills a horse which kicked to death fellow gangster "Nails" Nathan played by Leslie Fenton as well as inspire the scene from Mario Puzo's The Godfather Saga.

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