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Earl J. "Hymie" Weiss (born Henryk Wojciechowski; [1] January 25, 1898 – October 11, 1926), was a Polish-American mob boss who became a leader of the Prohibition-era North Side Gang and a bitter rival of Al Capone. He was known as "the only man Al Capone feared".
The North Side Gang, also known as the North Side Mob, was a primarily Irish-American criminal organization within Chicago during the Prohibition era from the early 1920s to the mid-1930s. It was the principal rival of the South Side Gang , also known as the Chicago Outfit, the crime syndicate of Italian-Americans Johnny Torrio and Al Capone .
In Chicago, Joseph Saltis and Jake Guzik allied themselves with Al Capone's Chicago Outfit. However, fighting Capone was the North Side Gang, which, while mostly Irish-American, had a large Polish presence as well, with Hymie Weiss (Wojciechowski) having Polish heritage. Fred Goetz was involved in carrying out the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
Nevertheless, the two still played a part in Chicago gangland affairs. The war between Capone and the North Side Gang, now under Earl "Hymie" Weiss, reached a peak in the fall of 1926. During a peace conference, Weiss offered peace to Capone if the O'Banion killers, Scalise and Anselmi, were killed.
CHICAGO — The now-convicted son-in-law of former Cook County Democratic boss Joseph Berrios was allegedly “good friends” with notorious mob hit man Frank “The German” Schweihs and once ...
September 9 - Following a car chase, Chicago detectives capture a gang of six suspected safe burglars, including Earl "Hymie" Weiss (identified in the paper as "Harold Werss"). The detectives also find burglar's tools and half a bottle of nitro glycerin in the thieves' automobile. [86]
THE FINAL SCENE. 1993. A clearing in the woods near Chicago, sun shining, puffy clouds. Robert Downey Jr., twenty-seven years old, just a few months past his Best Actor Academy Award nomination ...
An alleged cop killer in Chicago was pictured apparently foaming at the mouth in a mugshot released by authorities on Wednesday. Darion McMillian, 23, was charged with two counts of first-degree ...