King Mike McDonald and
moniker origin
Mont Tennes and
on Municipal Reform Party
in New York
oratory skills
personality, style
political start
prostitution defense fund
Quincy Street Boys and
Richard Croker and
Coughlin, Michael
Croker, Richard
Crowe, Robert Emmett
Crowell, Evelyn
Crowley, Francis “Two Gun,”
cudgels
Cummiskey, Eddie “the Butcher,”
Curley, Denis
Curley, James Michael
Curry, John F.
Daley, Richard
Dalitz, Moe
Daly, Kevin
D’Amato, Paul “Skinny,”
Davis, Debra
Davis, John H.
Day, Dorothy
Daybreak Boys
Dead Rabbits
DeMange, Frenchy
DeMeo, Roy
Democratic Party
benevolence to immigrants
Isaiah Rynders and
Kansas City factions
Mike McDonald and
Monongahela Democratic Club
Tammany Hall background
Dermody, Ronald
Devaney, Tom
Devereaux, Thomas
Dewey, Thomas E.
Diamond, Eddie
Diamond, Jack “Legs”
Arnold Rothstein and
Atlantic City conference and
attempts on life
bootlegging operation
challenging Combine
decline
disdain for
drug arrest
Dutch Schultz and
foiling Rothstein kidnapping
formative years
heroin trade
hijacking booze
hijacking Combine trucks
kidnapping charge
Kiki Roberts and
marriage to Florence Williams
military AWOL
murder
nickname origin
nightclub shootout
Owney Madden and
personality, style
prison time
reformatory experience
Rothstein gang revenge against
Vincent Coll and
wife, girlfriends
dirty jazz
dock wallopers
control of
famous
former bootleggers as
Jack “Legs” Diamond killing
“doctor’s racket,”
Doherty, Jim
Donahue, George “the Rape Artist,”
Doyle, Patsy
Driscoll, Danny
Drucci, Vinnie “Schemer,”
Druggan, Terry
Dry Dollar Sullivan. See Sullivan, Timothy “Big Tim” Duffy, John
Duffy, Thomas
Duffy, Tom “Red,”
Dugan, Paddy
Dunn, John M. “Cockeye,”
Dutchman. See Schultz, Dutch “the Dutchman” Dwyer, Mickey
Dwyer, William Vincent “Big Bill”
arrest, conviction
as businessman
Coast Guard control by
Combine bootlegging operation. See Combine, the formative years
ILA member
international trade
Jimmy Hines and
Owney Madden alliance made
pre-Combine bootlegging
protection arrangement
Rum Row overlord
spawning New York Irish Mob
steel-plated speedboats
transportation vulnerability
Eastman, Monk
Eastmans
Egan, John
Egan, William “Shorty,”
Eighteenth Amendment
El Fay
Empire Club
Entratta, Charles
Everdeane, Margaret
Fagen, Billy
Farley, James
Farley, Thomas M.
Farrell, James T.
Farrell, Red Rocks
Farrell Protection Police
Fay, Larry
Fay’s Follies
Featherstone, Marcelle “Sissy,”
Featherstone, Mickey
Billy Beattie and
Billy Bokun and
botched circumcision
cocaine
counterfeit currency rap
dismemberment practice and
drug treatment
exoneration
failed marriage
first killing
formative years
gang disenchantment
government informant
Holly murder rap
Jimmy McElroy and
Kevin Kelly and
Leprechaun Bar killing
loan rejection
Michael Holly and
nervous condition
new house/baby
Paddy Dugan’s head and
Paul Castellano and
prison time
reputation
RICO testimony
Ruby Stein’s head and
Spillane murder charge/acquittal
Sunbrite saloon killing
underworld celebrity
uniting with Coonan
Vietnam War service
Vinnie Leone and
Westies dissociation
Westies return
Whitehead murder arrest
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Bobby Kennedy, Mafia investigation
Brian Halloran informant
Buddy McLean investigation
confidential informant (C.I.) program
corrupt agents. See Connolly, John; Morris, John; Rico, H. Paul
Danny Greene and
J. Edgar Hoover and
J.F.K. election wiretap
Joe Kennedy and
Joe Ryan investigation
John Morris
Omnibus Crime Control Act
Steve Flemmi informant. See Flemmi, Steve “Rifleman”
Whitey Bulger and
Witness Protection Program
Federal Liquor Distilleries
Feldman, Flora
Finn, Mickey
First Municipality
First Ward Ball
Fitzgerald, Edna. See Coonan, Edna
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Fitzgerald, Frank
Fitzgerald, “Honey Fitz,”
Fitzgerald, Rose
Fitzpatrick, Robert
Fitzpatrick, William J.
Five Pointers
Five Points
AICP and
Charles Dickens on
gangster haven
lay of the land
Old Brewery
Paradise Square
weapons of choice
Flaherty, Dudda
Flemmi, Steve “Rifleman,”
Flynn, Jimmy
Forty Thieves
Frankie the Wop
Frato, Mike
Fury, Bridget
G. I. Bill
Gallatin Street district
Gambino crime family
Jimmy Coonan and
snatch-and-pay against
gambling
Big Jim O’Leary and
bookmaking rise
Chicago wars
faro play
John Morrissey and
King Mike and
Price McGrath and
gangs (Boston)
Charlestown gang
Gustin Gang
killing fields discovered
Mullin Gang
Mullin-Winter Hill alliance
wars, part 1
wars, part 2
See also specific gangsters; Winter Hill Gang
gangs (Chicago)
Board of Fifteen and
corp
orate-sponsored
newspaper circulation wars
origins
overview of
post-O’Banion era
quantity, study
racial cataclysm
William Randolph Hearst and
gangs (New Orleans 19th Century)
Gallatin Street district
origins
weapon of choice
See also specific gang names
gangs (New York 19th Century) disorganization
early prominent
1880s
Five Points and
Jacob A. Riis on
July 4
riot
mid-1800s
notoriety
poverty spawning
racketeering
size of
wars
women combatants
See also specific gangs, gangsters
gangs (New York 20th Century)
election-day support from
Owney Madden and
See also specific gangs, gangsters
Gangs of New York
gangster fascination
gangsters, general profile
Garrity, Beezy
Gas House District
Gas House Gang
Geary, Gene
Genna brothers
Genovese crime family
Danny Greene and
Jimmy Coonan and
Mickey Spillane and
Gentile, Danny
Gentle Maggie
Giancana, Sam “Momo”
background
Bobby Kennedy and
Fidel Castro hit
J.F.K. election and
Joe Kennedy and
Giuliani, Rudolph
Godfather movies
Godfather syndrome
Goo Goos
Gophers; See also Madden, Owney
Gordon, Vivian
Gordon, Waxey
Gotti, John
Jimmy Coonan and
Jimmy McBratney killing
whacking Paul Castellano
Great Depression
Great Potato Famine
duration
political genocide
Vale of Tears from
Great Riot of 1857
Greene, Danny “the Irishman,”
Grillo, Danny
Gustin Gang
Hackett, Johnny
Hague, Frank “Boss,”
Halloran, Brian
Halstead Street gambling parlor
Hanley, Edward
Harrison, Carter
Harrison, Carter, Jr.
Hearst, William Randolph
Hellcat Maggie
Hell’s Kitchen description
Hennessy, David, Jr.
accomplishments, reputation
assassination
avenging murderer of
Billy O’Connor and
Boylan Protective Police job
Chief of Detectives battle
criminal involvement
Farrell Protection Police job
fingering Italians (Dagos)
formative years
Mafia involvement
Matranga family and
as police chief
police profession
shooting Tom Devereaux
Hennessy, David, Sr.
Hennessy, Mike
Henshaw, Willie
Hess, Tommy
Higgins, Buff
Higgins, Vannie
Hill, Henry
Hines, James J. “Jimmy”
Big Bill Dwyer and
Big Tim Sullivan and
conviction
corruption revealed
death
Dutch Schultz and
formative years
Frank Costello and
Lucky Luciano and
Madden, Dwyer and
as man behind the man
Meyer Lansky and
Monongahela Club
Owney Madden and
personality, style
policy rackets
political beginnings
prison time
Thomas Dewey after
Hinky Dink. See Kenna, Michael “Hinky Dinky” Hintz, Andy
Hintz, Mae
Hoff, Boo-Boo
Hoffa, Jimmy
Bobby Kennedy and
Francis Sheeran on
McClellan Committee response
Richard Nixon and
Holly, Michael
home brewing
Hoover, J. Edgar
Horner, Freda
horse racing revolutionized
Hot Springs (AR)
“Houdini, do the,”
Hudson Dusters
Hughes brothers (Steve and Connie)
Humphreys, Murray
Hurley, Bull
Hurst, Q. Byrum
Hussey, Deborah
ILA. See International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA)
Imburgio, Giuseppe. See Bulger, Joe
immigrants
con artists preying on
Democratic Party benevolence
Italian, as competition
official greeters
political indebtedness
poverty
supporting Irish political bosses
Vale of Tears and
International Longshoremen and Warehousemen’s Union (ILWU)
International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA)
ethnic locals
Kefauver Committee and
Pistol Local
strike of 1934
See also Ryan, Joseph P. intimidating stare
Irish American gangsters
general profile
independent image
Mafia and. See Mafia
operating in shadows
power base
Irish Mob
Atlantic City conference shutting out
authoritarian nature
clan-based structure
first boss. See Morrissey, John
image popularity
last vestiges of
Mafia compared to
philosophy of
post-Prohibition enterprises
primary cities
seeds of destruction
self-destructive violence
slow dissolution of
Syndicate elimination of
Irish Suze
Irish-Italian animosity
Italian gangsters; See also Mafia; specific gangsters
Italian immigrants
Jacob Javits Convention Center
James, Beau
jazz
Al Capone and
Cotton Club and
dirty jazz
heroin and
Kansas City
New Orleans
Volstead Act and
Jewish gangsters; See also specific gangsters
Joseph P. Ryan Association
Kansas City
Democrats
dirty jazz
early years
Tammany Hall similarity
vice at the root
West Bottom
See also Pendergast Machine; Pendergast, James; Pendergast, Thomas Joseph “T. J.”
Kazan, Elia
Keefe, Rose
Kefauver Hearings
Kelley, Honest John
Kelly, Jimmy
Kelly, Kevin
Kelly, Paul
Kenna, Michael “Hinky Dinky,”