1904 in organized crime

"See also:"
1903 in organized crime,
other events of 1904,
1905 in organized crime and the
list of 'years in organized crime'.

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Events

*The headquarters of the On Leong Merchant Association is moved to N.Y, New York.
*Johnny Torrio, under the alias J.T. McCarthy, opens a saloon on New York's James Street and Walker Street which operates as a bordello. Hiring several former James Street Gang members, of which he was a member as a teenager, as protection he becomes involved in Paul Kelly's Five Points Gang becoming a top lieutenant by the following year.
*Emil Roeski, an associate of the Carn Barn Bandits, is sentenced to life imprisonment.
*February 2 - Monk Eastman is arrested after fleeing from a failed robbery. Without protection from Tammany Hall, he is later sentenced to ten years in Sing Sing Prison.
*March 1 - Harvey Van Dine, a co-leader of the Car Barn Bandits, is executed.
*April 22 - Gustave Marx, yet another of the four co-leaders of the Car Barn Bandits, is executed for a crime spree including robbery and murder the previous year.
*November 4 - Hip Sing Tong leader Mock Duck is wounded in a gunfight by three On Leong hatchet men near his Pell Street home during the New York Tong war.

Arts and literature

Births

*Michael Coppola, Luciano crime family Capo
*Joseph Lanza, New York Fulton Fish Market waterfront leader
*James V. LaSala, New York (Brooklyn) mobster and Northern California drug trafficker
*James T. Licavoli, Cleveland Mafia leader
*Joseph Rosato, Lucchese crime family Capodecina, labor racketeer and drug trafficker
*Ettore Zappi (aka Tony Russo), Gambino crime family Capo, Anthony Anastasio bodyguard, and New York (Brooklyn) racketeer
*Frank Tieri, Genovese crime family Don.
*Irving Vine - associate of Edward Vogel and Ralph Pierce
*February 4 - Frankie Carbo, boxing promoter and Murder, Inc. member
*September 22 - Joseph Valachi, Genovese crime family soldier, and government informant.

Deaths

*March 1 - Harvey Van Dine, a co-leader of the Car Barn Bandits
*April 22 - Gustave Marx, co-leader of the Car Barn Bandits