- Eddie Diamond
Eddie Diamond born 1899 to "Mother Sara" and "Father John Sr." by a midwife at home, 2350 E. Albert Street, Philadelphia,PA. Eddie lived in PA. until his mother died from complications due to a bacterial infection and high fevers on Christmas Eve, 1913. John Sr. took his two sons and moved to Brooklyn, New York. Now a New York mobster and the younger brother of
Jack "Legs" Diamond . Eddie Diamond married Kathrine "Kitty" Donohue and fathered a son, John Patrick "Jackie or Little Jack" on March 17th of 1924. Along with his brother, Eddie Diamond served underArnold Rothstein and Jacob "Little Augie" Orgen as strikebreakers duringProhibition . Like his brother, he survived an attempt on his own life when, on November 6, 1923, [ [http://www.geocities.com/teaser_4224/RickmaddogMattix.html RickmaddogMattix ] at www.geocities.com] he was ambushed byDutch Schultz 's hitmen inDenver, Colorado while recovering from tuberculosis and shot at over 100 times emerging from his car unharmed. Returning to New York, his condition worsened and he eventually died in Upstate New York in May 1929. Kitty and little Jack were known to have moved to Greene County, NY to the compound of Legs Diamond until his death at 67 Dove Street, Albany NY. Kitty died March 1959 and Little Jack died April 1998.He was later portrayed by
Warren Oates in the 1960 film "The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond ".Notes
Further reading
*Katcher, Leo. "The Big Bankroll: The Life and Times of Arnold Rothstein". New York: Da Capo Press, 1994. ISBN 0-306-80565-0
*Mannion, James. "101 Things You Didn't Know About The Mafia: The Lowdown on Dons, Wiseguys, Squealers and Backstabbers". Avon, Massachusetts: Adams Media, 2005. ISBN 1-59337-267-1
*Pietrusza, David. "Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series". New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2003. ISBN 0-7867-1250-3
*United States.Congress. Senate. Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce. "Investigation of Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce: Hearings Before a Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce". 1951. [http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC09953709&id=MZimc07Gu_QC&q=%22Eddie+Diamond%22&dq=%22Eddie+Diamond%22&pgis=1]*English, T.J. "Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster". New York: HarperCollins, 2005. ISBN 0-06-059002-5
McLaughlin, Dawn Diamond Family Historian. Living Granddaughter, Tampa, Florida 2008
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