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Eliot Ness (April 19, 1903 – May 16, 1957) was an American Prohibition agent known for his efforts to bring down Al Capone while enforcing Prohibition in Chicago.He was leader of a team of law enforcement agents nicknamed The Untouchables, handpicked for their incorruptibility.
Ness selected several agents, most from outside Chicago, whom he believed to be trustworthy, before beginning an extensive wire-tapping operation to gather information for the raids. [1]: 313–329 The squad located several Capone breweries and distilleries in and around Chicago and began raiding them in March 1931.
The Untouchables is an autobiographical memoir by Eliot Ness co-written with Oscar Fraley, published in 1957. [1] The book deals with the experiences of Ness, who was a federal agent in the Bureau of Prohibition, as he fought crime in Chicago in the late 1920s and early 1930s with the help of a special team of agents handpicked for their incorruptibility, nicknamed The Untouchables.
The Untouchables is an American crime drama produced by Desilu Productions that ran from 1959 to 1963 on the ABC television network. Based on the memoir of the same name by Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley, it fictionalizes the experiences of Ness as a Prohibition agent fighting crime in Chicago in the 1930s with the help of a special team of agents handpicked for their courage, moral character and ...
The Cleo Redd Fisher Museum’s Speaker Series continues with discussions about Eliot Ness, the Torso Murderer and Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run.
Of the Secret Six, in his book, The Untouchables, Eliot Ness says this, "These six men were gambling with their lives, unarmed, to accomplish what three thousand police and three hundred prohibition agents had failed miserably to accomplish: The liquidation of a criminal combine which paid off in dollars to the greedy and death to the too ...
Eliot Ness in 1931. The most famous dry agent of the bureau was undoubtedly the "Untouchable" Eliot Ness. [35] The group of agents that Ness oversaw, "The Untouchables," were by far the most famous group of prohibition agents. [35] Ness was overseen by the northwest district administrator, Malachi Harney, based out of the Chicago Prohibition ...
Eliot Ness and his men are having success shutting down the narcotics trade in Chicago thanks to a series of anonymous telephone tips. Ness manages to trace the call to a phone booth and identify the caller as Nick Dulov, owner of the Windy City cab company.