1911 in organized crime

1911 in organized crime

"See also:"
1910 in organized crime,
other events of 1911,
1912 in organized crime and the
list of 'years in Organized Crime'.

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Events

*Five Points Gang member James T. "Biff" Ellison is sentenced to Sing Sing Prison for the attempted murder of gang leader Paul Kelly. He dies several years later in an insane asylum.
*Jack Zelig is arrested for robbing a bordello. The charges are later dropped however, in attempt to gain leadership of the Eastman Gang, lieutenants Jack Sirocco and Chick Tricker refuse to post bail beginning a gang war between the two.
*Nathan Kaplan severely injures Johnny Spanish in a knife fight before police arrive to break up the fight. Kaplan also fights Jacob Orgen later that year giving a scar across Orgen's face before the fight is stopped.
*Filippo "John 'Handsome Johnny' Roselli" Sacco arrives with his family in the United States, from Sicily.
*Frank Tieri emigrates to the United States from Castel Gandolfo, Italy.
*December 1 - "Big" Jim O'Leary sells off his gambling operations and other business interests and goes into retirement.
*December 2 - Julie Morrell, an assassin hired by Sirocco and Tricker to murder Zelig, is lured to a Second Avenue nightclub and killed.

Arts and literature

Births

*Leonard Calamia, Drug traffiker and syndicate gunman
*George Gordon (George C. Berslem), Cleveland mobster
*Philip Lombardo, (Miami) Genovese crime family leader
*Frank Joseph Valenti, New York syndicate (Rochester) leader and gambling racketeer
*Armand Rava, Gambino crime family member, high ranking lieutenant to Aniello Dellacroce and syndicate gambling racketeer
*Joseph Zingara, Westchester County mobster and Gambino crime family member
*March 27 - Rocco Salvatore, Chicago Outfit member involved in North Side's illegal gambling and former chauffeur of Sam Battaglia
*May 1 - Anthony Salerno, Genovese crime family Don
*September 9 - Dominic Blasi (Joe Bantone), bodyguard for Sam Giancana
*November 4 - James Napoli "Jimmy Napp", Genovese crime family member involved in illegal gambling and loansharking

Deaths

*December 2 - Julie Morrell, Eastman Gang member


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