"Take Out" to 1939?

[Bapopik at AOL.COM]

   Yesterday's New York Times (10-7-2001) cites OED for a 1939 "take out," as in "We're going to take out Osama bin Laden."
   Surely OED has better.
   A quick check of HarpWeek (without looking at the MOA) has:

1889-10-05, pg. 799:
   Beaton felt a sudden turn of his rage toward the men whose action would now force him to walk five blocks and mount the stairs of the Elevated station.  "If you'd take out eight or ten of those fellows," he said, ferociously, "and set them up against a wall and shoot them, you'd save a great deal of bother."

1910-05-21, pg. 14:
   Certainly the plan as operating in Staunton has been a distinct financial advantage to the property-owners and taxpayers, even though it has proved rough on professional politicians and aldermanic "take-out" artists.