Showing posts with label Dead gangster. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dead gangster. Show all posts
06 May 2017
A trio of bullets for Little Augie
It didn't make much of a splash but eighty-four years ago today, the body of Little Augie Marino, 23, said to be a gangster affiliated with the Roma - Smaldone gang of Denver, Colorado, was found three bullets heavier. He had been taken for a ride and his body dumped. Denver mob boss Joseph Roma was killed the previous February so perhaps Little Augie's services weren't appreciated by the new management.
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1933,
Dead gangster,
Denver,
Joseph Roma,
Little Augie Marino,
one way ride,
Patrick Downey,
Smaldone
Author of: On The Spot: Gangland Murders in Prohibition New York City 1930-1933, Hollywood on the Spot: Crimes Against the Early Movie Stars, Legs Diamond: Gangster. Gangster City: The History of the New York Underworld 1900-1935. Notorious New Yorkers: Two Gun Crowley. Notorious New Yorkers: The Bobbed Haired Bandit. Notorious New Yorkers: Vivian Gordon.
18 January 2017
Hollywood Homicide
See, what happened was somebody gave Harry the works while Harry was pulling up to his abode, then this somebody, who was in the passenger seat at the time, turned his gun and killed James North who was in the back seat. Or did he give North the works first and then kill Meagher? Either way the result was the same. The car jumped the curbed and crashed into a light post. The killer got away while Meagher and North stayed put.
Why did Harry get dead? Three reasons were offered so you can pick one:
1) Gangsters from Chicago (or other eastern parts) were muscling in on the lucrative L.A. scene and it was just to bad for the local boys.
2) Harry himself was expanding into Arizona and Utah and them local fellas there weren't to keen on the idea.
3) It was an attempted robbery gone wrong.
PS
That third guy in the headline? He was an ex-boxer named Mickey Arno. He was killed about the same time and his body was found under a bridge near Long Beach. Police thought he may have been an associate of Meagher, then, after awhile, they thought that maybe he wasn't an associate of Meagher's. Could of just been one of the coincidences.
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1933,
Dead gangster,
Harry Meagher,
Hollywood,
James North,
Los Angeles,
Mickey Arno,
on the spot,
Patrick Downey
Author of: On The Spot: Gangland Murders in Prohibition New York City 1930-1933, Hollywood on the Spot: Crimes Against the Early Movie Stars, Legs Diamond: Gangster. Gangster City: The History of the New York Underworld 1900-1935. Notorious New Yorkers: Two Gun Crowley. Notorious New Yorkers: The Bobbed Haired Bandit. Notorious New Yorkers: Vivian Gordon.
07 January 2017
The way of all gangster flesh
The final four years of Prohibition saw over two hundred New York City
gangsters shot, garrotted, or stabbed to death with ice picks. Some
simply vanished never to be seen again. My new ebook: ON THE SPOT: Gangland Murders in Prohibition New York City 1930-1933 brings these murders back in full
detail. In addition to all of the bootleggers, drug dealers, gamblers
and other underworld sorts who were "bumped off", "taken for a ride",
and "put on the spot", the reader will learn about the victims of the
gang wars fought between Dutch Schultz and Vincent Coll, Waxey Gordon
and the Bugsy Seigel - Meyer Lansky mob, the Mafia's Castellammarese War
and the battle waged between Brooklyn's Shapiro Brothers and the boys
from Murder, Inc. Over two hundred gangland executions are discussed,
most for the first time since they occurred all those years ago.
Labels:
Book News,
Bug and Meyer Mob,
Castellammarese War,
Dead gangster,
Dutch Schultz,
Gangsters,
Murder Incorporated,
on the spot,
Patrick Downey,
Prohibition,
prohibition gangsters,
Vincent Coll,
Waxey Gordon
Author of: On The Spot: Gangland Murders in Prohibition New York City 1930-1933, Hollywood on the Spot: Crimes Against the Early Movie Stars, Legs Diamond: Gangster. Gangster City: The History of the New York Underworld 1900-1935. Notorious New Yorkers: Two Gun Crowley. Notorious New Yorkers: The Bobbed Haired Bandit. Notorious New Yorkers: Vivian Gordon.
01 November 2016
Paul is Dead
No not that Paul, but Paul Robinson said to be a Los Angeles gangster, who was bumped off on this date back in 1932. Initially police believed that he was
involved in some sort of gangland feud. This stemmed from the
fact that Robinson's bullet riddled corpse was found in a recently dug
ditch near a San Mateo golf course.
Police determined that Robinson had been killed in San Francisco and his body taken to the golf course and dropped into the ditch. (I suspect a "hole in one" joke is applicable here so if you have one, by all means leave it in the comments) After Robinson's body was deposited his slayer fired ten more shots into him. The dead man's auto was then parked near San Francisco's Presidio district and set on fire.
Subsequent investigation showed that Robinson had left L.A. along with a confederate named E.P. Andrews alias Gene Shelton, whom the authorities felt was the one who did in Robinson. On the following December 8, Andrews was traced to the town of Banning where he escaped in his wife's car amidst a shootout with police. He didn't bother waiting for his wife who was taken into custody.
Andrews didn't remain free long, he was arrested on April 1, 1933, in St. Louis under suspicion of robbery.
Police determined that Robinson had been killed in San Francisco and his body taken to the golf course and dropped into the ditch. (I suspect a "hole in one" joke is applicable here so if you have one, by all means leave it in the comments) After Robinson's body was deposited his slayer fired ten more shots into him. The dead man's auto was then parked near San Francisco's Presidio district and set on fire.
Subsequent investigation showed that Robinson had left L.A. along with a confederate named E.P. Andrews alias Gene Shelton, whom the authorities felt was the one who did in Robinson. On the following December 8, Andrews was traced to the town of Banning where he escaped in his wife's car amidst a shootout with police. He didn't bother waiting for his wife who was taken into custody.
Andrews didn't remain free long, he was arrested on April 1, 1933, in St. Louis under suspicion of robbery.
Labels:
burning car,
Dead gangster,
gangster,
Gene Shelton,
L.A.,
Los Angeles,
on the spot,
Patrick Downey,
Paul is dead,
Paul Robinson,
Presidio,
San Francisco,
San Mateo,
shoot out,
St. Louis
Author of: On The Spot: Gangland Murders in Prohibition New York City 1930-1933, Hollywood on the Spot: Crimes Against the Early Movie Stars, Legs Diamond: Gangster. Gangster City: The History of the New York Underworld 1900-1935. Notorious New Yorkers: Two Gun Crowley. Notorious New Yorkers: The Bobbed Haired Bandit. Notorious New Yorkers: Vivian Gordon.
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