1908 in organized crime

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Organized crime in 1908 in the U.S.:

Contents 1 Events 2 Arts and literature 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 See also

Events

• A gang war breaks out between Paul Kelly's Five Points Gang and "Kid Twist" Max Zwerbach's Eastman Gang.
• By the end of the year Johnny Torrio's two dozen Brooklyn brothels earn over $5,000 a week.
• Frankie Yale is allowed to join Johnny Torrio's Black Hand organization in New York.
• Hymie Weiss is first arrested for burglary. It is this incident that, while caught robbing a perfume store, he is dubbed the "Perfume Burglar" by Chicago reporters.
• Joseph Petrosino arrests Neopolitan camorrista Enrico Costabili where he is later deported to Italy.
• Sicilian mafiosi Raffaele Palizzolo, wanted for murder, escapes Sicily and arrives in New York. He later leaves the city before Joseph Petrosino can arrest him.
• Salvatore Sabella is sentenced to three years imprisonment for the murder of a local butcher, of which he was an apprentice, in 1905.
• April 25 - Frank Costello is arrested for assault and robbery but is released.
• May 14 - Eastman Gang leader Max Zwerbach and lieutenant Vach Lewis are killed in an ambush by members of the Five Points Gang after an argument between Zwerbach and Louis Pioggi over a Coney Island dance hall girl Carrol Terry.
• July 23 - Labor racketeer Cornelius Shea is sentenced to six months in prison for abandoning his wife and two young children.

Arts and literature

Births

• Anthony Joseph Biase, leader of the Omaha faction of the National Crime Syndicate
• Harry Maione, Murder, Inc. hitman
• Ernest Rupolo, Genovese crime family assassin
• Angelo Tuminaro, Lucchese crime family member and drug trafficker
• March 17 - Raymond L.S. Patriarca, New England Mafia Don
• May 24 - Sam Giancana [Salvatore Giancana], Chicago Crime Syndicate leader
• June 30 - Samuel "Teets" Battaglia, member of the Chicago Outfit

Deaths

• May 14 - Max Zwerbach, Eastman Gang leader
• May 14 - Vach Lewis, Eastman Gang lieutenant

See also

• 1907 in organized crime,
• other events of 1908,
• 1909 in organized crime
• list of 'years in organized crime'

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