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While losers in the gang war, Jelly Roll Hogan and his men ultimately had the last laugh, as Egan's Rats would dissolve under a flurry of inter-gang murders and federal mail robbery indictments. Hogan and his men expanded their territory into south St. Louis County and made a fortune by selling illegal beer and liquor for the rest of Prohibition.
Egan's Rats was an American organized crime gang that exercised considerable power in St. Louis, Missouri, from 1890 to 1924.Its 35 years of criminal activity included bootlegging, labor slugging, [clarification needed] voter intimidation, armed robbery, and murder.
With the passage of Prohibition in 1920, control of St. Louis's illegal bootlegging operations became a major power struggle between the seven different ethnic gangs: the Green Ones, the Pillow Gang, the Russo Gang, the Egan's Rats, the Hogan Gang, the Shelton Gang and the Cuckoos all fighting to control illegal rackets in the St. Louis area. [1]
Pages in category "Gangs in St. Louis" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Bottoms Gang; E.
The son of an Irish-American saloonkeeper, Egan was born and raised in Kerry Patch, then known as the riverfront Irish ghetto of St. Louis. With some of his childhood pals, he began running with a local gang of thugs, known as the Ashley Street Gang. Egan's best friend, Thomas "Snake" Kinney, was a local street tough and Democratic politician ...
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A federal indictment unsealed Thursday charges 18 members of the Pagan’s Motorcycle Club - including 16 Missouri men - in various violent assaults on rival gang members in 2022 and 2023.
In 1950, the Saturday Evening Post described the Sheltons as "America's Bloodiest Gang". [citation needed] Ancestors of the Shelton Brothers Gang trace their roots back to Ireland, under the surname "Hunter". There are still some descendants living in the St. Louis, Fairfield, IL and Bloomington IL area today.