Dutch Voight

Dutch Voight
Citizenship	USA
Known for	Mobster, Gang leader
Successor	Sam Maceo and Rosario Maceo
Partner	Ollie Quinn

Dutch Voight was a German American gang leader in Galveston, Texas in the United States during the early 1900s. Voight was called Dutch for Deutsch meaning German. He, with Ollie Quinn, led the Beach Gang, one of the two gangs which controlled most of the Galveston underworld until the mid 1920s. As the Prohibition era began his gang came to be one of the dominant forces in the Galveston liquor trade.

Voight ushered in the modern era of gambling on the island when by establishing organized poker games in 1910.^[1] He and Quinn soon ran games all over the city.

See also

	Texas portal
	Houston portal

• Free State of Galveston
• Johnny Jack Nounes
• Ollie Quinn
• Rosario Maceo
• Sam Maceo

Notes

1. ^ Nieman (2008), pg. 5.

References

• Cartwright, Gary (1998). Galveston: a history of the island. New York: Macmillan. ISBN 0-87565-190-9. http://books.google.com/books?id=RFRu8kYThEcC. 
• Nieman, Robert (Fall 2008). "Galveston's Balinese Room". Texas Ranger Dispatch (Texas Ranger Association Foundation) (27). http://www.unlimitedfightnews.com/balinese_dispatch.pdf. 

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