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Raymond Gunn was the oldest of the eight children of Michael and Maymie Gunn, a farming family in Maryville. In the 1920 census, the family is described as mulatto. [1] In the 1930 census, Raymond Gunn is described as laborer and widower.
Taken to the hospital, D'Andrea dies of his wounds on the afternoon of the 12th. [36] He is succeeded by Mike Merlo. May 11 - Albert Anastasia and Giuseppe Florino are convicted of the 1920 murder of longshoreman George Terrillo in Brooklyn. [37] On May 25, Anastasia and Florino are sentenced to die in the electric chair at Sing Sing. [38]
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 ...
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.
Born on Valentine’s Day 1913 in Brazil, Indiana, Hoffa’s Pennsylvania Dutch father John was a coal miner who passed away from lung disease in 1920 when his son was just seven years old ...
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.
Arnold Rothstein was born into a comfortable life in Manhattan, the son of an affluent Ashkenazi Jewish businessman, Abraham Rothstein, and his wife, Esther. His father was a man of upright character, who had acquired the nickname "Abe the Just". [4]
Margaret Vinegar, 14, barely avoided being lynched in 1882 in Lawrence, then died in prison. The local NAACP is working to put up a historical marker for her. She escaped a lynch mob, then died in ...