 After being lured away from Hell's Kitchen by a member of Tricker's gang, she performed as the belle of the "Cafe Maryland" and refused the Gopher's demands to leave her newfound West 28th Street home.Allowing the matter to be settled between the Gophers and his own underlings, four men entered the Cafe Maryland in October 1910.After drinking for several minutes, Burger protested their presence and the four gunmen opened fire on the six rival gang members seriously wounding five of them.