1885 in organized crime
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1884 in organized crime
1884 in organized crime
See also:1883 in organized crime,other events of 1884,1885 in organized crime and thelist of 'years in Organized Crime'.-----Events:*"Yellow" Henry Stewart and three gang members are convicted of armed robbery and imprisoned...
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other events of 1885,
1886 in organized crime
1886 in organized crime
-Events:*Former leader of the Yellow Henry Gang, "Yellow" Henry Stewart dies of malaria while serving a prison sentence for armed robbery.*Michael Hennessy, a cousin of New Orleans police chief David Hennessy, is murdered, possibly by a Black Hand assassin, in New Orleans, LA.*October 2 - After an...
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Timeline of organized crime
This is a timeline of the history of organized crime.Note: Sources included are Carl Sifakis's The Mafia Encyclopedia, Herbert Asbury's The Gangs of New York and others. Online references also include Thomas P...
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Events
- July 4 - John Kelly and John Clinton, members of the WhyosWhyosThe Whyos, a collection of the various post-Civil War street gangs of New York, was the city's dominant street gang during the late 19th century. The gang controlled most of Manhattan from the late 1860s until the early 1890s, when the Monk Eastman Gang defeated the last of the Whyos...
, are tried at Essex Market Street Court and convicted of assaulting Naty Glashiem and stealing his gold watch and chain. - August 10 - Several members of the 74th Street Gang, including William "Red" Carroll, James Fitzpatrick, James Beatty, Louis Gavious (or Fitzpatrick) and John "Noble" Hughes, are arrested by a Capt. Gunner of the 28th Precinct after the death of one of their victims, Nawclaw Kalat, who dies of his injuries earlier that day. Kalat, who had been fighting with another Bohemian immigrant on Avenue A, had been severely injured when members of the gang joined in the fight.
- November 26 - Patrick O'Brien and Michael Flannagan, both members of the Whyos, are arrested and charged with the assault and robbery of fireman William Clark. O'Brien's brother, having been present at the court house at the time of Patrick O'Brien's arrest, left with another gang member to get a lawyer for his brother. However, in an attempt to raise enough money for a lawyer, he was caught attempting to steal a gold watch from a vistiting businessman Ebenezer S. Willis. As he was being brought into custody, he assaulted an aquantence John Gagin who had agreed to testify against O'Brien having witnessed the theft.
Births
- Frankie YaleFrankie YaleFrancesco Ioele , better known as Frankie Uale or Frankie Yale, was a Brooklyn gangster and original employer of Al Capone before the latter moved to Chicago...
(Francesco Uale), Unione SicilianeUnione SicilianeThe Unione Siciliana was a Sicilian-American fraternal organization which eventually was rumored to have controlled much of the Italian American vote within the United States during the early twentieth century...
leader, Five Points GangFive Points GangFive Points Gang was a 19th-century and early 20th-century criminal organization, primarily of Italian-American origins, based in the Sixth Ward of Manhattan, New York City. Since the early 19th century, the area was first known for gangs of Irish immigrants...
member, (New York) Black HandBlack Hand (blackmail)Black Hand was a type of extortion racket. It was a method of extortion, not a criminal organization as such, though gangsters of Camorra and the Mafia practiced it.-Origins:...
member, and New York bootlegger.