1924 in organized crime

1924 in organized crime

"See also:"
1923 in organized crime,
other events of 1924,
1925 in organized crime and the
list of 'years in Organized Crime'.

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Events

*Peter Guardalabene is replaced by Joseph Amato as head of the Milwaukee crime family.
*Thomas Jefferson McGinty, a Cleveland bootlegger and fight promoter, is indicted with two other family members by federal grand jury and charged with operating "a gigantic wholesale and retail conspiracy" through "McGinty's" saloon on West 25th Street. Although hiding out for several days, he eventually turned himself in and was convicted after pleading not guilty. After serving eighteen months at Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, he resumes his bootlegging activities.
*Walter O'Donnell, leader of the Westside O'Donnells, is charged with the murder of Alfred Deckman but is later acquitted.
*Walter Stevens, a long-time Chicago gangster and labor slugger credited with the deaths of over 60 men, retires as a gunman for the Torrio-Capone organization where he lives peacefully until his death in 1939.
*Joseph Bonanno, future founder of the Bonanno crime family, arrives in New York from Sicily.
*A gang war between the On Leong and Hip Sing Tongs begins after several members of the On Leongs defect to the Hip Sings with a large amount of money.
*April 1 - Frank Capone, brother of Al Capone, is killed by police during the fighting which broke out while leading around 200 gunmen into Cicero during the 1924 Chicago Elections in support of Mafia backed Republican politicians.
*September 7 - Southside O'Donnell gunman Jerry O'Connor is killed by Frank McErlane.
*November 10 - North Side Gang leader Dean O'Banion is killed when three unidentified men enter his flower shop and shoot him several times. This begins a five year gang war between the North Side Gang, under Hymie Weiss, against Al Capone's Chicago Outfit that would end with the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, in 1929.

Arts and literature

Births

*April 2 - Vito Ciancimino, Sicilian mobster and Palermo mayor
*April 21 - Philip Testa "The Chicken Man", Philadelphia crime family boss
*May 12 - Michele Greco, Sicilian mafia boss

Deaths

*Alfred Deckman, Westside O'Donnell associate
*April 1 - Frank Capone, Chicago Outfit member
*September 7 - Jerry O'Connor, Southside O'Donnell gunman
*November 10 - Dean O'Banion, North Side Gang leader


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