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Showing posts with label Capone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Capone. Show all posts
27 May 2020

Heart, lung ailments take 'Joe Batters'

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Longtime Outfit boss started as Capone bodyguard On this date in 1992... Longtime Chicago Outfit boss Anthony Accardo succumbed on M...
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19 May 2019

The Pittsburgh machine gun murder that wasn't

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'The Big Gorilla' may have been killed with his own shotgun On this date in 1927... Lamendola A Pittsburgh booze racketeer ...
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14 February 2019

Moran's men massacred

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On this date in 1929... Disguised as law enforcement officers, gunmen murdered seven members and associates of George "Bugs" Mor...
31 August 2018

Gangster 'Legs' Diamond shows up in Europe

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On this date in 1930... Legs Diamond Authorities had speculated for days about the location of notorious New York gangster Jack "...
25 January 2018

Stroke complications take Capone

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Al Capone, notorious Prohibition Era gang boss of Chicago, died January 25, 1947, at his south Florida home. Dr. Kenneth S. Phillips, who ha...
01 July 2017

Gangland assassination in Brooklyn

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Capone gunmen blamed in Frankie Yale's murder At about 4 p.m. on July 1, 1928, Brooklyn underworld leader Francesco "Frankie Yale...
02 June 2017

'Al Capone's Beer Wars' set for June 6 release

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John J. Binder's latest book, Al Capone's Beer Wars , is scheduled for release in hardcover and Kindle and Nook e-book formats on ...
29 May 2017

Chicago's Genna is laid to rest

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On this date in 1925, Chicago Mafia leader Angelo Genna was laid to rest at Mount Carmel Cemetery in the village of Hillside, west of the W...
16 May 2017

1929: Capone meets City of Brotherly Love

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Arrested with concealed weapon on his way home from Atlantic City peace conference May 16, 1929 - Chicago crime lord Al Capone and h...
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11 December 2016

Prohibition Era organized crime in Chicago

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John J. Binder's latest book, Al Capone's Beer Wars is now available for pre-order through Amazon . The 400-page book is expected...
05 December 2016

Caught in Cleveland

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On this date in 1928, Cleveland police discovered a convention of U.S. Mafiosi at the Hotel Statler on Euclid Avenue and East 12th Street.  ...
16 November 2016

Out of prison, into hospital

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On this date in 1939, infamous Chicago gangland chief Al Capone was freed from prison and immediately taken to Union Memorial Hospital in Ba...