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From there he moved to Los Angeles, where he became a bodyguard to Charlie Chaplin and later to Jack Dragna, the city’s Mafia boss. The McDonald brothers were prominent leaders of the Elephant and Castle gang between the two World Wars. Charles (Wag) McDonald was born on February 5, 1877, at Valentine Place, Lambeth, southeast London.
The Forty Thieves operated from the Elephant and Castle area of London. They were allied with the Elephant and Castle Mob led by the McDonald brothers. They raided quality stores in the West End of London and ranged all over the country. The gang was also known to masquerade as housemaids for wealthy families before ransacking their homes ...
The Elephant and Castle Mob were one of the many independent street gangs active in London's underworld during the interwar years.A rival of mobster Charles "Darby" Sabini along with the Birmingham Boys and the Cortesi brothers of Saffron Hill, [1] they were eventually forced out by Sabini with the added manpower of imported Sicilian mafiosi and had disappeared from the city by the end of the ...
Both were convicted in 1913 of pickpocketing. In 1919, the Titanic was crushed by the Elephant and Castle Mob. White went on to form the King's Cross Boys, and combined with the Sabinis and Alf Solomon's Yiddishers to form a counterbalance to the Elephant, Camden Town and Finsbury gangs, and their Birmingham Boys allies led by Billy Kimber ...
At the age of five, he moved with his family to a flat on Walworth Road, Elephant and Castle. [8] Although his parents were not criminals, Fraser turned to crime aged 10 with his sister Eva, to whom he was close. [10] He was a deserter during the Second World War, escaping from his barracks on several occasions.
This category includes people from the Elephant and Castle neighbourhood of the London Borough of Southwark in Greater London, England. It was part of Surrey until 1889. It was part of Surrey until 1889.
He was released in 1941, but in 1943 found guilty of receiving stolen goods and sentenced to 3 years in prison. Meanwhile, his only son was killed on active service in the RAF in Egypt. After the war, his empire was taken over by the White family led by Alf White and subsequently by the organizations of Jack Spot and Billy Hill.
Kimber formed alliances with smaller organisations such as the Hoxton Gang [5] and the Elephant and Castle Mob. Now at racecourses in the South East, one group the Brummies began to prey on were the Jewish bookies from London's East End, who turned to local underworld boss Edward Emmanuel, who in turn recruited the Italian Sabini Gang as ...