1913 in organized crime

1913 in organized crime

"See also:"
1912 in organized crime,
other events of 1913,
1914 in organized crime and the
list of 'years in Organized Crime'.

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Events

*The White Hand Society disbands after police inaction and vigilantism in other Italian neighborhoods ends public support for the organization.
*Timothy Sullivan escapes from the sanitarium and is later found dead near a Westchester County freight yard.
*Chuck Connors, one of the last of the Tammany Hall associates, dies of heart failure in New York's Hudson Street Hospital at the age of 61. Within several months however, Frank "Mike the Dago" Salvatore who had previously organized the Young Chuck Connors Association succeeding Connors as the political boss of Chinatown.
*Cleveland gangster Thomas Jefferson McGinty organizes a gang of labor sluggers competing against rival "Cleveland News" sluggers Arthur McBride's Mayfield Road Mob during Cleveland's "Circulation Wars".
*May 22 - A peace agreement is signed, with the exception of the Four Brothers, ending the gang war between the On Leongs, Hip Sings, and the Kim Lan Wui Saw Tongs.
*November - Preparing to assault workers who had refused to strike, rival labor sluggers led by "Dopey" Benny Fein are met by a combined number of smaller gangs as street fighting breaks out in front of a Greenwich Street hat shop. This is the first of many skirmishs which will eventually lead up to the .

Arts and literature

*"The Gangster" starring Lionel Adams, Ferdinand Tidmarsh and Edna Luby is released.

Births

*February 8 - Carmine Lombardozzi "The Doctor", New York labor racketeer, illegal gambling and drug trafficker as a Capodecina of the Gambino crime family and former associate of Meyer Lansky
*February 12 - Anthony Corallo "Tony Ducks", Lucchese crime family Don and Mafia Commission member
*March 26 - Victor Riesel, New York organized crime journalist
*April 30 - Sam DeCavalcante, New Jersey mobster
*October 6 - Leonard Patrick, Chicago Outfit member and informant

Deaths

*Chuck Connors, Tammany Hall associate, member of the Bowery Boys street gang, and founder of Chinatown's Chuck Connors Club
*Timothy Sullivan, New York gambling syndicate leader, Tammany Hall polititican and associate of the Whyos and Monk Eastman street gangs.


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