While police suspected that Cherries Dunn had killed Skippy Rohan, they didn't charge him. It was later surmised that Dunn killed Rohan to keep him from revealing that he had been seen at the St. Louis police headquarters. Either way, Dunn was finished in the Egan's Rats to begin with. It was a long-standing edict that no crimes were to be committed on the premises of Tom Egan's saloon. After killing a man (and longtime friend of the boss), Dunn was marked for death. Willie Egan managed to save Dunn's life for the time being, until two of his men shot Cherries to death in a Pine Street lid club nine months later.
