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He was a high-ranking member and the final leader of the White Hand Gang. He succeeded Bill Lovett after his murder in 1923 and, under his leadership, led a two-year campaign against Frankie Yale over the New York waterfront until he and five of his lieutenants were killed in South Brooklyn during a Christmas Day celebration at the Adonis ...
The police believe that the true murderers were probably connected with Lovett's own gang, or a rival Irish gang. Lovett's brother-in-law Richard Lonergan , who had become leader before Lovett was killed, began an even more aggressive attack against Vincent Mangano , Albert Anastasia , and Joe Adonis , who had begun moving in on the waterfront.
In the early morning hours of December 26, 1925, White Hand gang boss Richard "Pegleg" Lonergan and a few of his men were attacked at Brooklyn's Adonis Club by a handful of Yale's men and a visiting Al Capone (Capone's son Sonny had just had an operation for a mastoid infection in New York). Lonergan planned on leading his men into the club to ...
The Irish Mob (also known as the Irish mafia or Irish organized crime) is a usually crime family–based ethnic collective of organized crime syndicates composed of primarily ethnic Irish members which operate primarily in Ireland, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia, and have been in existence since the early 19th century.
November 1 – Having survived the January 3 assassination attempt, White Hand Gang leader William "Wild Bill" Lovett is killed by an unknown person or persons as he sleeps off a night of drinking in the back of an abandoned store on Bridge St. in Brooklyn. Lovett is shot several times in the head, and his head is bashed in with a heavy object ...
Lovett was labeled by the media as the new "leader" of the White Hand Gang after he took control of the waterfront rackets upon the killing of Dinny Meehan, who was shot while sleeping at his home with his wife at his side on the afternoon of 31 March, 1920 (the press lumped both Lovett's and Meehan's gang together). [2]
Boston mobster and leader of the Gustin Gang during Prohibition Danny Walsh: No image available: 1893–1933 1920–1933 Providence bootlegger and major organized crime figure in southern New England during Prohibition Kevin Weeks 1: No image available: 1965– 1978–1999 Boston mobster affiliated with the Winter Hill Gang and a later ...
Born in Brooklyn, Meehan apparently joined the White Hand Gang in his late teens. In 1912, he was arrested for shooting and killing John "Christie" Maroney, who led a faction of White Handers from the Navy Yard section of Brooklyn. After a sensational trial where police reserves were called in for fear of rioting if Meehan was convicted, Meehan ...