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In March 1920, Colosimo secured an uncontested divorce from his wife, Victoria Moresco. [14] A month later, he and singer Dale Winter eloped to West Baden Springs, Indiana. Upon their return, he bought a home on the South Side. [14] On May 11, 1920, Colosimo was killed by a gunman waiting in the coat room of his restaurant, Colosimo's cafe.
Frankie Marlow was a former associate of Brooklyn mob boss Frankie Yale. Among other things, Marlow ran a bookmaking operation under Yale's protection and was also a bootlegger, nightclub owner and boxing manager. July 2 – Benjamin Evangelista, a religious leader and real estate tycoon, is killed with his wife and four children. It is ...
Gibson was an American bank robber and Depression-era outlaw associated with Alvin Karpis and the Barker gang during the late 1920s and '30s. [2] [9] Helen Wawzynak Gillis: No image available: 1908–1987 Gillis was the wife of mobster Baby Face Nelson, and assisted with many of his crimes. Alongside her husband, she was labeled public enemy ...
February 2, 1920 – Labor racketeer Maurice "Mossy" Enright was killed near his South Side home. May 11, 1920 – Three weeks after marrying his second wife, gambling racketeer and "whoremaster" Jim Colosimo was gunned down in the lobby of his self-named restaurant at 2126 S. Wabash Avenue, supposedly waiting for a shipment of some kind.
The Cleveland crime family, also known as the Scalish crime family or the Cleveland Mafia, is an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Cleveland, Ohio, and throughout the Greater Cleveland area. The organization formed during the 1900s, and early leadership turned over frequently due to a series of power grabs and assassinations.
1920–1922 – Stefano "The Undertaker ... Bart was alleged by prosecutors to be a made member of the Buffalo mob. [138] His wife Krista's uncles are Dan and Victor ...
St. Clair resisted the Mafia's interests for several years after Prohibition ended; she became a local legend for her public denunciations of corrupt police and for resisting Mafia control. [3] She ran a successful numbers game in Harlem and was an activist for the black community. Her nicknames included: Queenie, Madame Queen, Madame St. Clair ...
His second wife was the singer and entertainer Ruth Etting, whom he married in 1922 and whose career he aggressively promoted. [7] [b] Snyder and Etting met when she was performing at the Marigold Gardens. He divorced his first wife to marry Etting. [4] [6] In 1927, the couple moved to New York City, where Etting landed a role in the Ziegfeld ...