- Paul Jarwarski
Paul Jawarski (born 1900 died on
January 2 1929 ) (real name: Paul Poluszynski) was Polish-American gangster from Poland. Immigrated to USA in 1905. He was born to Polish-Catholic parents but he later decided to became an atheist. The book "Gangland International" by James Morton, has information on Polish gangsters in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. The following text is from the book is in quotations: Page 235-236 "Gangland International" by James Morton."Of course pre-war crime in Cleveland had not been wholly from the Italian and Jewish element. There were at least two major Polish-led gangs of robbers. One was the Flatheads led by Paul Jaworski. On
13 September 1928 when Jaworski and Frank "whitey" Kraft were caught in a restaurant, Kraft ran out the back but Jaworski holed up in Chambers Avenue. He was driven out by tear gas and was shot. It was not thought he would survive, but he did so. He has already shot a prison guard escaping from Pittsburgh, and was said to have killed up to 26 people including a former gang member who was also a drug addict. Jaworski, rather than see him suffer, threw his body in the river. Returned to Pennsylvania where he was electrocuted on2 January , Jaworski declined the services of the prison chaplain, saying: I preached atheism since the day I quit singing the choir. A man is yellow if he spends his life believing in nothing and then comes crawling to the church because he is afraid his death is near.""Shorty before his execution, Jaworski sent his friends a postcard with his future address - 45 Hellsfire Road, 6/14 miles from Hell. Father Pat O'Brien would not have used him as an example. Frank "Whitey" Kraft was later killed by police in Detroit."
References
*"Gangland International: The Mafia and Other Mobs" by James Morton, 1998, ISBN 0-7515-2237-6. "Reprinted 2000, 2001. Non-Fiction. The moral right of the author has been asserted". Pages: 235-236, Chapter 10: Cleveland.
External links
* [http://info.detnews.com/history/story/index.cfm?id=123&category=events Detroit News payroll robbery]
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