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Showing posts with label Dewey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dewey. Show all posts
02 February 2020

'Lucky' out of prison, held at Ellis Island

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Authorities prepare to deport NY Mafia boss On this date in 1946: New York Mafia boss Salvatore "Charlie Lucky Luciano" Lucani...
04 March 2019

Death chair takes Lepke, two aides

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On this date in 1944... Louis "Lepke" Buchalter, longtime New York City racketeer and reputed overseer of the underworld'...
15 June 2018

Attorney cannot free himself from murder case

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[Following is an excerpt from Chapter 5 of Wrongly Executed? The Long-Forgotten Context of Charles Sberna's 1939 Electrocution .] Le...
30 January 2018

When 'Lucky' was locked up

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Salvatore Lucania, widely known as Charlie "Lucky" Luciano, late in 1931 became the most powerful crime boss in the U.S. He pers...
23 October 2017

Dutch Schultz, aides, fatally shot in New Jersey

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On this date in 1935, mob-affiliated assassins invaded the Newark, New Jersey, headquarters of gang boss Arthur "Dutch Schultz" Fl...
10 April 2017

NYPD detective fatally shot by cafe robbers

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Detective Michael J. Foley On this date in 1937 - Gunmen attempting to rob the Cafe Boulevard restaurant in Manhattan fatally shot Polic...
05 January 2017

Sberna goes to The Chair

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On this date in 1939, Charles Sberna was sent to The Chair. Though he had been convicted of participating in the killing of a New York City ...
26 November 2016

'Wrongly Executed?' book now available

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Sing Sing Warden Lewis Lawes had no doubt on the evening of January 5, 1939: He had just presided over the electric-chair-execution of an in...
01 November 2016

Organized crime's 'strategic logic'

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I recently received a complimentary review copy of James Cockayne's book, Hidden Power: The Strategic Logic of Organized Crime (Oxford ...
22 October 2016

'Wrongly Executed?' You decide

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I have been finishing up a manuscript relating to the 1939 electric-chair execution of convicted cop-killer Charles Sberna. Sberna's na...