The Arizona Republican (Phenix, Arizona)Arizona Republican, 17 October 1890, page 1: Policeman killedA short telegraphic item datelined New Orleans, October 16, reporting that Police Chief David C. Hennessy was fatally shot at midnight near the corner of Basin and Girod Streets, with the assailants unknown.
The Beatrice Daily Express (Beatrice, Neb.)Beatrice Daily Express, 17 October 1890, page 3: Chief of Police Hennessy of New Orleans AssassinatedA wire report prints a statement attributed to Capt. William J. O'Connor that, after parting from the chief at Girard (Girod) Street, he heard shotgun reports from a house at the corner of Girard and Basin streets and found the chief on a doorstep, who said 'Dagoes.'
The Birmingham Age-Herald (Birmingham, Ala.)Birmingham Age-Herald, 28 October 1919, page 1: Enforcement bill passed over vetoThe Birmingham Age-Herald's front page of 28 October 1919 carries the Associated Press report that the House repassed the prohibition-enforcement bill over President Wilson's veto, 176 to 55.Bismarck Daily Tribune (Bismarck, N.D.)Bismarck Daily Tribune, 14 March 1909, page 1: Petrosino shot in PalermoThe Bismarck Daily Tribune front page of 14 March 1909 carries a wire report from Palermo that Lieutenant Joseph Petrosino of the New York police was shot dead in Marina square the previous evening, and that the identity of the assassins was not known.
The Bismarck Tribune (Bismarck, N.D.)Bismarck Tribune, 11 November 1924, page 1: Rich Chicago criminal is shot to deathThe Bismarck Tribune's front page of 11 November 1924 carries a dispatch from Chicago on the shooting of Dion O'Bannion in his flower shop.
The Bismarck Tribune (Bismarck, N.D.)Bismarck Tribune, 13 October 1926, page 1: Capone wants to see end of gang murdersAssociated Press front-page report of 13 October 1926 in which Al Capone, interviewed in a Cicero hotel room after the killing of Hymie Weiss, says he wants an end to gang killings.
The Bismarck Tribune (Bismarck, N.D.)Bismarck Tribune, 2 July 1928, page 1: Machine guns mow down Frank Yale in BrooklynThe Bismarck Tribune front page of 2 July 1928 carries an Associated Press story from New York on the shooting of Frank Yale on a Brooklyn street.
The Bismarck Tribune (Bismarck, N.D.)Bismarck Tribune, 13 September 1928, page 2: Kidnapings and hijacking laid to racketeersThe seventh article in James P. Kirby's syndicated series on racketeering, about Detroit: it says Chicago men had affiliated with local talent, 'notably the Purple Gang', and that police attributed three murders to the gang.
The Bismarck Tribune (Bismarck, N.D.)Bismarck Tribune, 14 September 1928, page 2: Racketeers' torch kills six as gangster 'war' hits City of ClevelandThe eighth article in James P. Kirby's syndicated series on racketeering, about Cleveland: it says that since January 1927 thirteen well-known underworld figures had been murdered, 'including Big Joe and John Lonardo and Lawrence Lupo', with no conviction.
The Bismarck Tribune (Bismarck, N.D.)The Bismarck Tribune, 15 September 1928, page 2: "Philadelphia Grapples With Gangster Rule"Syndicated feature, the ninth in James P. Kirby's series on racketeering, relaying the Philadelphia district attorney's claims about Max Hoff, the Franklin Mortgage and Investment Company, and visits by Al Capone.
The Bismarck Tribune (Bismarck, N.D.)Bismarck Tribune, 14 February 1929, page 1: 7 gangsters trapped, killedThe Bismarck Tribune front page of 14 February 1929 carries a banner and a column on the killing of seven men in a Chicago garage.
The Bismarck Tribune (Bismarck, N.D.)Bismarck Tribune, 17 May 1929, page 1: Al Capone gets year in jailThe Bismarck Tribune front page of 17 May 1929 carries an Associated Press story from Philadelphia on Al Capone's sentence for carrying a concealed weapon.
The Bismarck Tribune (Bismarck, N.D.)Bismarck Tribune, 4 June 1929, page 7: Chicago’s Al Capone likes to wear apron, cook spaghettiPage 7 of the Bismarck Tribune, 4 June 1929: an NEA feature with a photograph captioned “Where Al Capone Lives,” which names a brick house at 7244 Prairie Avenue, Chicago, as the home of his family.
The Bismarck Tribune (Bismarck, N.D.)Bismarck Tribune, 27 July 1929, page 5: Purple-Gang member found shot to deathA short Associated Press item from Detroit: Irving Shapiro, 25, 'known as a member of the purple gang', was found shot to death in the street and identified by fingerprints.
The Bismarck Tribune (Bismarck, N.D.)Bismarck Tribune, 24 April 1930, page 1: Hoodlum who's who with Al Capone leading listThe Bismarck Tribune front page of 24 April 1930 carries an Associated Press story on the Chicago Crime Commission's published list of 28 gangsters, with Al Capone first.
The Bismarck Tribune (Bismarck, N.D.)Bismarck Tribune, 10 June 1930, page 1: Seek newspaperman's slayerThe Bismarck Tribune front page of 10 June 1930 carries an Associated Press story from Chicago on the police response to the killing of Chicago Tribune reporter Alfred Lingle.
The Bismarck Tribune (Bismarck, N.D.)Bismarck Tribune, 5 July 1930, page 6: Two men killed in Cleveland gang warAn Associated Press item: two men were shot dead, one inside Frank Milano's restaurant and the other just outside; it names them as Joe Porello, head of Cleveland's corn sugar business since the 1927 Lonardo killings, and Sam Tilocco.
The Bismarck Tribune (Bismarck, N.D.)Bismarck Tribune, 16 July 1930, page 3: Detroit gang guns get tenth victimA short Associated Press item: David Overstein, 'formerly identified with the notorious purple gang', was found shot to death in a Detroit alley, the tenth victim of gang guns in under two weeks.
The Bismarck Tribune (Bismarck, N.D.)Bismarck Tribune, 24 July 1930, page 1: Brand as untrue claim announcer was extortionistAn Associated Press report that the Detroit News said Police Commissioner Thomas C. Wilcox admitted to be false his statement that he held an affidavit accusing the slain announcer Jerry Buckley of taking money from a racketeer.
The Bismarck Tribune (Bismarck, N.D.)Bismarck Tribune, 23 October 1930, page 3: Life term given Detroit gangsterAn Associated Press item: Philip Keywell, described as the first of Detroit's 'notorious purple gang' to receive a major prison term in state court, was sentenced to life for the murder of Arthur Mixon, a 19-year-old iceman.
The Bismarck Tribune (Bismarck, N.D.)Bismarck Tribune, 17 October 1931, page 1: Capone income tax case is given to Chicago juryAssociated Press front-page report in the Bismarck Tribune of 17 October 1931 that Capone's income tax case went to the jury, quoting the closing argument of United States District Attorney George E. Q. Johnson.
Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, Tex.)Brownsville Herald, 28 April 1926, page 1: “Hanging prosecutor” is slainFront page of the Brownsville Herald, 28 April 1926: an Associated Press report that Assistant State’s Attorney William M. McSwiggin (as printed) and two companions were shot from an automobile on Roosevelt Road at Fifty-Sixth Avenue, on the Chicago-Cicero line.
Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, Tex.)Brownsville Herald, 14 October 1927, page 2: Cleveland men slainA short wire item: the brothers Joseph and John Lonardo, commission merchants 'supposedly well-to-do', were shot and killed from ambush in a Cleveland barber shop the night before.
Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, Tex.)Brownsville Herald, 2 July 1928, page 1: Chicago gangsters sought in slaying of N.Y. racketeerShort Associated Press item on the front page of the Brownsville Herald, 2 July 1928, on the killing of Frank Yale in Brooklyn the day before.
Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, Tex.)Brownsville Herald, 3 July 1928, page 8: Find body of gun victim in BrooklynShort wire item on page 8 of the Brownsville Herald, 3 July 1928, on a man found dead in a Brooklyn lot, described as the third killing in a series that began with the slaying of Frankie Yale.
Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, Tex.)Brownsville Herald, 3 June 1929, page 6: Detroit rounds up 'Purple' gang (photograph)A news photograph and caption: federal officers had rounded up Detroit's 'Purple Gang' and four of its members had been indicted for conspiracy to violate the prohibition law; the picture shows the United States Marshal herding prisoners into a police van.
Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, Tex.)Brownsville Herald, 11 June 1929, page 1: Gang war opens; 1 deadA brief Associated Press bulletin: Sam 'Black Jack' Todaro was shot and killed in Cleveland in what police called a fresh outbreak of gang warfare, in retaliation for the killing of 'Big Joe' and John Lonardo.
Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, Tex.)Brownsville Herald, 24 April 1930, page 1: Published list of gangland shows all for AlThe Brownsville Herald front page of 24 April 1930 carries an Associated Press story on the Chicago Crime Commission's published list of 28 gangsters.
Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, Tex.)Brownsville Herald, 6 July 1930, page 2: Gangland guns bark and two leaders dieAn Associated Press report from Cleveland: Joe Porrello, 'Cleveland bootleg sugar baron', and his first lieutenant were shot dead, Porrello near the door of the restaurant of Frank Milano.
The Butte Inter Mountain (Butte, Mont.)Butte Inter Mountain, 14 April 1903, page 1: Dead body in a barrelThe Butte Inter Mountain front page of 14 April 1903 carries an Associated Press dispatch from New York on a man's body found in a barrel on East Eleventh Street.
The Cheyenne Daily Leader (Cheyenne, Wyo.)Cheyenne Daily Leader, 15 March 1891, page 1: Vengeance: the killing of eleven prisoners in New OrleansThe Cheyenne Daily Leader front page of 15 March 1891 reports the killing of eleven prisoners by a crowd at the New Orleans parish prison, and itself reports that the jury had acquitted six defendants and returned a mistrial on three.
The Daily Alaska Empire (Juneau, Alaska)Daily Alaska Empire, 14 October 1927, page 1: Two merchants shot and killed; mysteryA brief wire item from Cleveland: Joseph and John Lonardo, 'commission merchants, supposedly well-to-do', were shot and killed from ambush in a barber shop; the gunmen and the motive were unknown to police.
The Daily Alaska Empire (Juneau, Alaska)Daily Alaska Empire, 16 February 1929, page 1: Trail three gangmen for late murdersFront page of the Daily Alaska Empire, Juneau, 16 February 1929: Chicago police say witnesses identified photographs of three Detroit men, and George Moran blames the Capone gang.
The Daily Alaska Empire (Juneau, Alaska)Daily Alaska Empire, 21 October 1929, page 1: One time 'sugar corn baron' is assassinatedA wire item from Cleveland: Frank Lonardo, 'one time corn sugar baron' whose brothers Joe and John were killed two years earlier, was shot dead at a card table in a downtown barber shop.
The Daily Alaska Empire (Juneau, Alaska)Daily Alaska Empire, 18 March 1930, page 1: Scarface Al Capone freed from prisonFront-page report in the Daily Alaska Empire, Juneau, 18 March 1930, that Capone and Frank Cline left custody unseen after serving ten months of a one-year sentence.
The Daily Alaska Empire (Juneau, Alaska)Daily Alaska Empire, 24 October 1931, page 1: 'Scarface' Al Capone given eleven yearsFront-page report in the Daily Alaska Empire, Juneau, 24 October 1931, that Capone was sentenced to eleven years for income tax evasion and fined $50,000 plus costs.
The Daily Alaska Empire (Juneau, Alaska)Daily Alaska Empire, 27 January 1947, page 1: Al Capone dies, MiamiFront-page item in the Daily Alaska Empire, Juneau, 27 January 1947: Capone's body awaits funeral plans at Miami Beach, and his attorney says he left no will and no money.
The Daily Worker (Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.), New York EditionDaily Worker, 25 May 1926, page 4: Forest View is controlled by Capone gunmenPage 4 of the Daily Worker, 25 May 1926: a short story attributing to Captain John Stege of the Chicago detective bureau the statement that Forest View, a village just south of Cicero, was controlled by Capone’s men.The Day Book (Chicago, Ill.)The Day Book (Chicago), 20 January 1912, page 30: a Black Hand letter in AshtabulaA one-paragraph item in the Chicago Day Book of 20 January 1912 reports a Black Hand letter demanding $1,100 from a man in Ashtabula, Ohio, with the columnist's sardonic comment.The Day Book (Chicago, Ill.)The Day Book (Chicago), 6 May 1912, page 28: police blame the Black Hand for two killingsA short Day Book item of 6 May 1912 reports two killings in Chicago the previous day and says police attributed both to the 'Black Hand', without naming anyone.The Day Book (Chicago, Ill.)The Day Book (Chicago), 7 August 1912, page 11: a fire and a Black Hand letterA Day Book fire story of 7 August 1912: the owner of two burned West Side buildings said he had received a Black Hand letter that morning and thought the fire might be its work; the paper says the fire attorney would look into it.The Day Book (Chicago, Ill.)The Day Book (Chicago), 3 September 1912, page 29: Black Hand letters to the Rockefeller householdA wire item in the Day Book of 3 September 1912, datelined Tarrytown, says John D. Rockefeller's secretaries had received Black Hand letters and that armed guards were posted at Pocantico Hills. The paper's own correspondent disputed the story eight days later.The Day Book (Chicago, Ill.)The Day Book (Chicago), 11 September 1912, page 9: the Rockefeller Black Hand story 'stretched'The Day Book's correspondent reports from Pocantico Hills on 11 September 1912 that he walked onto the Rockefeller estate and found no armed guards, and concludes that the Black Hand story of the week before had been stretched.The Day Book (Chicago, Ill.)The Day Book (Chicago), 20 September 1912, page 3: 'More Black Hand' in PeoriaA Day Book wire item of 20 September 1912 from Peoria reports that a State's Attorney preparing indictments was receiving anonymous threatening letters, one signed 'Black Hand' and written in shorthand.The Day Book (Chicago, Ill.)The Day Book (Chicago), 4 November 1913, page 22: a killing attributed to the Black HandA wire item in the Day Book of 4 November 1913, datelined New York, reports that a woman was killed because her husband refused to pay money demanded in a letter, and says the killers were 'believed members of the "Black Hand"'.
The Day Book (Chicago, Ill.)The Day Book, 2 October 1916, image 2: Judge Landis's probe of gambling by Automatic telephoneA Chicago daily reports that Judge Landis "today continued his probe of the gambling situation that thrives by use of the Automatic telephone" and was to hear Mont Tennes and the head of the General News Bureau.
The Day Book (Chicago, Ill.)The Day Book, 3 October 1916, image 3: Mont Tennes and the General News bureauThe paper reports that Mont Tennes and his syndicate were "said to clear $75,000 a year" through the General News bureau, selling race information delivered by Automatic telephone to forty or more betting places, according to a list given to Judge Landis.
The Day Book (Chicago, Ill.)The Day Book, 4 October 1916, image 3: Prosecutions in gambling case may be pushed by federal govt.After Mont Tennes's General News Bureau service was cut off, the paper reports, racetrack gamblers got their results from late newspaper editions, and the federal government "may start prosecutions" on the evidence gathered before Judge Landis.
The Detroit Times (Detroit, Mich.), Last EditionDetroit Times, 13 March 1909, page 1: N.Y. detective slain in ItalyThe Detroit Times front page of 13 March 1909 reports the shooting of New York detective Joseph Petrosino in Palermo, and prints the U.S. consul-general's cable saying the assassins were unknown.
Douglas Daily Dispatch (Douglas, Ariz.)Douglas Daily Dispatch, 6 July 1930, page 3: Bootleg leaders riddled in cafe by rival gunmenThe Associated Press version of the 5 July 1930 Cleveland shootings: Joe Porrello, 'latest Cleveland bootleg sugar baron', was shot in the restaurant of Frank Milano and his first lieutenant just outside.
East St. Louis Daily JournalEast St. Louis Daily Journal, 19 June 1924, page 1: Plotted $3,000,000 Robbery HereA front page on the robbery of a mail train near Rondout, Illinois, reporting the Chicago police chief's statement that "Max Greenberg, former chief of Egan's rats, a well-known St. Louis band of gangsters, was the 'master mind' of the robbery."
East St. Louis Daily JournalEast St. Louis Daily Journal, 16 November 1924, page 1: Colbeck and Egan's Rats Bow to LawA short front-page story datelined Quincy, Illinois, 15 November 1924, reporting that W. P. ("Dinty") Colbeck and eight others convicted of robbing the mails at Staunton were on their way to Leavenworth to serve 25-year sentences.
El Dorado Daily News (El Dorado, Ark.)El Dorado Daily News, 25 January 1925, page 1: Windy City's gang war is fanned anewThe El Dorado Daily News front page of 25 January 1925 carries a dispatch from Chicago reporting that John Torrio was shot and probably fatally wounded outside his home.
Evening Star (Washington, D.C.)Evening Star (Washington), 16 March 1891, page 6: The New Orleans Lynching. Italy Protests Against the Killing of Her CitizensA Monday report with an Italian indignation-meeting subhead and a detailed account of the speeches at the Clay statue, the march to the prison and the entry, including speakers who said the 'execrable Mafia' must not be allowed to bribe jurors; crowds visited the prison on Sunday.
The Evening Star (Washington, D.C.)Evening Star, 28 January 1925, page 3: Gang 'Lord' Dying, Avengers GatherAn Associated Press story from Chicago on John Torrio's condition after he was shot, reporting that George Moran, "pal of O'Banion," had been charged with the attack and that Vincent Drucci and Earl Weiss were in custody.
Evening Star (Washington, D.C.)Evening Star, 21 September 1926, page 18: Machine gun gang shoots up CiceroPage 18 of the Evening Star, 21 September 1926: an Associated Press report that eight cars fired on the Hawthorne Inn and an adjoining hotel in Cicero, Illinois, with a line naming the Hawthorne Inn as Capone’s reputed headquarters.
Evening Star (Washington, D.C.)Evening Star, 12 October 1926, page 1: Deadly gangwar flares in ChicagoAssociated Press front-page report of 12 October 1926 on the machine-gun shooting near Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago in which Earl "Hymie" Weiss and Paddy Murray were killed.
The Evening Star (Washington, D.C.)Evening Star, 5 April 1927, page 1: Shots and Bombs Are in Evidence as Chicago VotesAn Associated Press story on Chicago's election-day violence that reports the killing of Vincent "Schemer" Drucci by a detective after he had been taken into custody.
Evening Star (Washington, D.C.)Evening Star, 24 September 1928, page 21: Casper Holstein freed by kidnapersAn Associated Press dispatch from New York reporting that Casper Holstein, kidnapped on Thursday night, was released early on 24 September with $3 for taxi fare, that Michael Bernstein had been arrested after a ransom demand, and that the demand had risen to $50,000.
Evening Star (Washington, D.C.)Evening Star (Washington), 26 October 1928, page 4: Hunt 7 Men in Kansas City Bombing and RacketeeringAn Associated Press item datelined Kansas City, 26 October, says the Jackson County grand jury returned indictments naming ten men over bombings, sluggings and other racketeering 'laid to labor trouble,' with warrants for seven in Sheriff John Miles's hands.
Evening Star (Washington, D.C.)Evening Star, 5 November 1928, page 11: Rothstein, shot, maintains silenceAn Associated Press dispatch from New York the day after Arnold Rothstein was shot: he lay in Polyclinic Hospital with a bullet wound in the abdomen and gave police no help, and detectives said he had been shot in a room of the Park Central Hotel.
Evening Star (Washington, D.C.)Evening Star, 6 November 1928, page 2: Rothstein wound result is fatalAn Associated Press dispatch from New York reporting that Arnold Rothstein died on 6 November 1928 without naming the person who shot him, with the wire service's background on his past.
Evening Star (Washington, D.C.)Evening Star, 11 January 1929, page 22: Extortion charged to labor leaderAn Associated Press item from Detroit: the president of the Detroit Federation of Labor was held for trial on an extortion charge resting on testimony at the previous summer's trial of Charles Jacoby and nine members of 'what police termed the purple gang'.
Evening Star (Washington, D.C.)Evening Star, 14 February 1929, page 1: Seven massacred as five posing as officers line up gangmenThe Evening Star's front page of 14 February 1929 carries the Associated Press report, filed the afternoon of the shooting, that seven men were shot in the rear of the S. M. C. Cartage Co. garage at 2122 North Clark street, Chicago.
Evening Star (Washington, D.C.)Evening Star, 15 February 1929, page 1: Police massacred 7 for cutting off protection money, dry agent thinksAssociated Press front-page follow-up of 15 February 1929: a federal prohibition official's theory that police carried out the Chicago garage killings, and the police commissioner's rejection of it.
Evening Star (Washington, D.C.)Evening Star, 15 February 1929, page 2: Police executed 7, dry agent thinksPage 2 continuation of the Evening Star's 15 February 1929 Associated Press story: the coroner's jury views the garage, the address is printed again, and the seven dead are named as police described them.
Evening Star (Washington, D.C.)Evening Star, 23 February 1929, page 1: Missing witness in gang massacre found in DetroitAssociated Press front-page report of 23 February 1929 that a Chicago dentist who had identified a photograph for police in the garage-killings inquiry was missing, then found in Detroit.
Evening Star (Washington, D.C.)Evening Star, 17 May 1929, page 1: Al Capone and bodyguard get year for "gun-toting"Associated Press front-page report of 17 May 1929 that Al Capone and Frank Cline pleaded guilty in Philadelphia to carrying concealed deadly weapons and were sentenced to one year.
Evening Star (Washington, D.C.)Evening Star, 17 May 1929, page 4: Capone and Cline sentenced, continued from page 1Continuation of the Associated Press report of 17 May 1929 on Al Capone's arrest in Philadelphia, his indictment less than 12 hours later, and his guilty plea before Judge John E. Walsh.
Evening Star (Washington, D.C.)Evening Star, 18 May 1929, page 1: Chicago expects a bloody election of a new gang lordThe Evening Star front page of 18 May 1929 carries an Associated Press story from Chicago on what police expected after Al Capone's jailing in Philadelphia.
Evening Star (Washington, D.C.)Evening Star, 24 May 1929, page 4: Four village officials linked with rum gangAn Associated Press item: a federal grand jury at Detroit indicted four officials of the village of Inkster, an alleged member of the Purple Gang named Sam Adler, and a truck operator on charges of conspiracy to violate the prohibition law.
Evening Star (Washington, D.C.)Evening Star, 23 September 1929, page 3: Rosenberg, alleged gunman, is seizedAn Associated Press item: Chicago detectives held Abe Rosenberg, described as an alleged Detroit gunman, for return to Detroit in the July 1929 disappearance of David Cass; officials called him the reputed head of the purple gang.
Evening Star (Washington, D.C.)Evening Star, 21 October 1929, page 3: Retired 'racket' baron is slainAn Associated Press report from Cleveland: Frank Lonardo, a one-time corn sugar baron, was shot dead at a card table in a downtown barber shop; the item adds that Mrs. Concietta Lonardo and her eldest son, Angelo, 20, had been indicted for first-degree murder in Todaro's death.
Evening Star (Washington, D.C.)Evening Star, 2 December 1929, page 3: Dry agents raid town mayor’s homePage 3 of the Evening Star, 2 December 1929: an Associated Press report that federal prohibition agents raided the home and roadhouse of the mayor of Stickney, Illinois, a Chicago suburb the story calls reputedly under Capone’s domination.
Evening Star (Washington, D.C.)Evening Star, 23 December 1929, page 1: Burke gun held used in massacreAssociated Press front-page report of 23 December 1929 that Maj. Calvin H. Goddard testified before the reconvened coroner's jury that bullets from the seven victims matched test bullets fired from machine guns found in Fred Burke's home.
Evening Star (Washington, D.C.)Evening Star, 3 January 1930, page 4: Rhode Island names the patrol boat crewProvidence dispatch of 3 January 1930 that Rhode Island's attorney general made public the names of the CG-290 crew and asked that they be summoned to the inquest over the Black Duck shooting.
Evening Star (Washington, D.C.)Evening Star, 12 February 1930, page B-4: Gangsters refuse to assist policeAn Associated Press item: Detroit underworld figures refused the police commissioner's request for help in the inquiry into Inspector Henry J. Garvin, after detectives testified that a December 1927 report of the arrest of five members of the 'notorious purple gang' was altered.
Evening Star (Washington, D.C.)Evening Star, 24 April 1930, page B-9: Publicity drive opened on gangsAssociated Press report of 24 April 1930 that the Chicago Crime Commission issued a list of 28 men it called public enemies, with Capone named first.
Evening Star (Washington, D.C.)Evening Star, 25 July 1930, page A-2: Wide raids staged by Detroit policeAn Associated Press report that Detroit police raided saloons, handbooks and beer flats after the commissioner abolished the centralized vice squad, and that 20,000 people filed past the bier of the slain announcer Gerald E. Buckley.
Evening Star (Washington, D.C.)Evening Star, 26 July 1930, page 1: Hold bootlegger tricked in charge against BuckleyAn Associated Press report that the Detroit News said a bootlegger, Frank Chock, swore in a new affidavit that Commissioner Wilcox tricked him into signing an affidavit accusing the slain announcer Jerry Buckley of an attempted shakedown.
Evening Star (Washington, D.C.)Evening Star, 16 August 1930, page B-12: Kirchenbaum is freed on charge of assaultAn Associated Press item: Harry Kirchenbaum was acquitted in Detroit Recorder's Court of assault with intent to kill after the alleged victim, Joe Bernstein, 'reputed leader of the once powerful Purple gang', testified for the State as an unwilling witness.
Evening Star (Washington, D.C.)Evening Star, 9 October 1930, page D-2: The scandal of boxing (Owney Madden)The fourth of six syndicated articles by Milton Mackaye on control of professional boxing, naming Owney Madden, "since his release from Sing Sing," and Will Duffy as the men behind Primo Carnera's management. A journalist's allegations, not a record of any case.
Evening Star (Washington, D.C.)Evening Star, 13 October 1930, page A-7: 'Legs' Diamond fights for lifeAn Associated Press dispatch from New York on the shooting of Jack "Legs" Diamond the day before in a room on the eighth floor of the Monticello Hotel on West Sixty-fourth Street; he told police he did not know who shot him.
Evening Star (Washington, D.C.)Evening Star, 6 June 1931, page A-2: Capone may get term of 32 yearsPage A-2 of the Evening Star, 6 June 1931: the continuation of a front-page account of how federal agents traced Capone income, and an Associated Press report on the indictment, the $50,000 bond and the prosecutors named.
Evening Star (Washington, D.C.)Evening Star, 22 January 1947, page A-2: Al Capone rallies after stroke in FloridaAssociated Press item on page A-2 of the Evening Star, 22 January 1947, reporting that Al Capone was "much improved" after a stroke at his Miami Beach home but not out of danger.
Evening Star (Washington, D.C.)Evening Star, 25 January 1947, page 1: Capone in slight rally as oxygen is givenAssociated Press item on the front page of the Evening Star, 25 January 1947, the day Capone died, reporting that a noon bulletin called him slightly improved but very critical, with pneumonia in both lungs.
Evening Star (Washington, D.C.)Evening Star, 27 January 1947, page A-8: End of Capone (editorial)Unsigned editorial on page A-8 of the Evening Star, 27 January 1947, setting Capone's death beside that of Andrew J. Volstead and drawing a lesson about Prohibition.
Evening Times-Republican (Marshalltown, Iowa)Evening Times-Republican, 12 May 1920, page 1: Underworld king slainFront page of the Evening Times-Republican (Marshalltown, Iowa), 12 May 1920: an Associated Press report that James Colosimo, proprietor of a Chicago restaurant in the former tenderloin district, was shot dead at his cafe on South Wabash Avenue.
The Evening World (New York, N.Y.), Extra editionThe Evening World (New York), 14 March 1891, Extra edition, page 2: editorial on the Hennessy jury's verdictAn editorial paragraph written after the verdict and before the killings says the acquittal of six prisoners was unanimous, that the verdict was 'exceedingly distasteful' to New Orleans, that the Mafia 'has never been proven to have a being in this country,' and that lynching the Italians would be murder.
The Evening World (New York, N.Y.), Last EditionThe Evening World (New York), 14 March 1891, Last Edition, page 1: Lynched! Six Prisoners Shot or Hanged by a New Orleans MobThe front page of the Last Edition, a special from New Orleans the same day, reports that thousands gathered at the Clay statue, attacked the Parish Prison, and shot or hanged 'six of the accused Italians.' A later edition of the same day revised the count to eleven.
The Evening World (New York, N.Y.), Sporting ExtraThe Evening World (New York), 14 March 1891, Sporting Extra, page 1: Lynched! Eleven Prisoners Shot or Hanged by a New Orleans MobA later edition's front page lists the dead, says two prisoners listed first were later reported not to have been shot in their cells, names the leaders the paper identified, and gives a background section on the Matranga and Provenzano stevedore rivalry and the earlier trial.
The Evening World (New York)Evening World, 26 May 1915, page 1: Girl Tells Jury She Gave Signal for Gang MurderThe Evening World's front-page report of testimony at the New York trial of Owney Madden, "on trial for instigating the murder of Patsy Doyle, a rival leader," as a woman witness told the jury how she gave the signal that led to the killing.
Fort Worth Daily Gazette (Fort Worth, Tex.)Fort Worth Daily Gazette, 17 October 1890, page 4: Italians Did ItA special dispatch dated 16 October under the heading 'Italians Did It' gives the same account as the Tribune: an ambush on Rampart and Basin streets, six wounds, nine suspicious Italians in jail by daylight, one witness who identified three. The subhead repeats a claim about a society ordering murders.
The Gary American (Gary, Ind.)The Gary American, 28 September 1928, page 1: Holstein back home, and mystery around his abductionAn Amsterdam News Service story on Casper Holstein's return, saying no one knew where he had been held, that he was blindfolded throughout, that police said they found on a prisoner a list of other people to be kidnapped, and that he had sent storm relief to the Virgin Islands, 'his native home'.
The Gary American (Gary, Ind.)The Gary American, 12 October 1928, page 2: charges dropped against two men in the Holstein kidnappingA report that a magistrate in Washington Heights court dismissed the kidnapping charges against Rudolph Brown and Moe (Monty) Schubert after Casper Holstein would not identify them, and that Michael Bernstein's $10,000 bond was forfeited when he did not appear.
The Gary American (Gary, Ind.)The Gary American, 23 November 1928, page 1: a robbery plot against Holstein reportedA short front-page item reporting that Casper Holstein, 'whose kidnapping last September aroused national interest,' was to have been the victim of a planned $20,000 robbery, learned with the arrest of a man just out of Sing Sing.
The Gary American (Gary, Ind.)The Gary American, 28 December 1928, page 1: Bernstein surrenders in the Holstein kidnappingA report that Michael Bernstein, sought since 1 October as the alleged leader of the gang that kidnapped Casper Holstein, walked into a police station and was held in $100,000 bail. It recaps the abduction with an address and details that differ from other papers.
The Indianapolis Journal (Indianapolis, Ind.)The Indianapolis Journal, 18 October 1890, page 2: Bold Murder in a Prison (Scaffidi shot in the Parish Prison; the chief's funeral)A dispatch of 17 October reports that Antonio Scaffidi, identified as one of those accused in the Hennessy killing, was shot and wounded in the Parish Prison corridor by Thomas H. Duffy, 28, who gave no reason beyond his belief that the prisoner deserved death.
The Indianapolis Journal (Indianapolis, Ind.)The Indianapolis Journal, 15 March 1891, page 1: Hennessy's Death AvengedA front-page Associated Press dispatch of 14 March, under a long deck beginning 'Hennessy's Death Avenged,' describes a mass meeting at Clay square on Canal street, the march to the prison, and the killing of eleven men, and says business exchanges passed resolutions approving the act.
The Indianapolis Journal (Indianapolis, Ind.)The Indianapolis Journal, 15 March 1891, page 2: The Mafia and Its Work (background, a Pinkerton interview, and statements of the Provenzanos)An inside page with a background article on the Hennessy killing, a note that Solicitor-General Taft called the Italian trouble 'purely a State matter,' an interview attributed to William A. Pinkerton on the stevedore dispute, and statements by Giovanni and Pietro Provenzano held in the Parish Prison.
The Indianapolis Journal (Indianapolis, Ind.)The Indianapolis Journal, 18 March 1891, page 1: More Threats by the Mafia (Provenzanos and Matrangas said to be at war again)A dispatch of 17 March reports an alleged threatening letter to the Mayor and Parkerson, that the Provenzanos and Matrangas were accusing each other of Mafia membership, and that 'in the Hennessy case there was not sufficient evidence to implicate Charles Matranga.'
The Indianapolis Times (Indianapolis, Ind.)Indianapolis Times, 26 November 1926, page 12: Three Shot as Gangsters FightA United Press dispatch from Chicago reporting that Thomas and Charles O'Donnell, brothers of Edward "Spike" O'Donnell, and one other man were wounded in a Thanksgiving shooting.
The Indianapolis Times (Indianapolis, Ind.), Home EditionIndianapolis Times, 14 February 1929, page 1: Two carloads of Chicago thugs invade warehouseThe Indianapolis Times front page of 14 February 1929 carries a same-day United Press report from Chicago that six men were killed and one wounded in a cartage-company garage.
The Indianapolis Times (Indianapolis, Ind.)Indianapolis Times, 15 February 1929, page 1: Capone's gangland throne tottering after massacreUnited Press front-page report in the Indianapolis Times, 15 February 1929, on the aftermath of the Chicago garage killings, with a second item on police questioning of the victims' widows.
The Indianapolis Times (Indianapolis, Ind.)Indianapolis Times, 18 May 1929, page 1: Fear drove Al Capone in jail, officers sayUnited Press front-page report from Philadelphia, 18 May 1929, quoting Mayor Harry A. Mackey's view that Capone was glad to go to jail.
The Indianapolis Times (Indianapolis, Ind.)Indianapolis Times, 15 November 1929, page 6: Mother is acquittedA United Press item from Cleveland: Mrs. Concietta Lonardo, widow of the murdered 'Big Joe' Lonardo, was found not guilty of murdering Salvatore (Black Jack) Todaro.
The Indianapolis Times (Indianapolis, Ind.)Indianapolis Times, 23 December 1929, page 1: Bullets link killer Burke to massacreUnited Press front-page report in the Indianapolis Times of 23 December 1929 on Calvin Goddard's testimony at the resumed garage-killings inquest that test cartridges from Burke's machine gun were "very similar" to the massacre shells.
The Indianapolis Times (Indianapolis, Ind.)Indianapolis Times, 17 March 1930, page 1: Capone to quit prison cell todayUnited Press front-page report of 17 March 1930 that a crowd waited outside Eastern Penitentiary in Philadelphia for Al Capone's release, and that the governor had signed the papers.
The Indianapolis Times (Indianapolis, Ind.)Indianapolis Times, 24 April 1930, image 11: Exile sought for Chicago gang chiefsUnited Press report of 24 April 1930 that the Chicago Crime Commission, through Frank J. Loesch, sent police a list of twenty-eight men it called "public enemies," headed by Al Capone.
The Indianapolis Times (Indianapolis, Ind.)Indianapolis Times, 16 October 1930, page 2: Legs Diamond may recover, say doctorsA United Press dispatch from New York on the Diamond shooting: the police commissioner said he knew the names of three men at a conference before it, and the story reports police searching for "Irving Wexler, alias Maxie Gordon" and naming "Arthur Flagenheimer, alias Dutch Schultz" among men held for questioning.
The Lake County Times (Hammond, Ind.)Lake County Times, 12 May 1920, page 1: Colosimo murdered in ChicagoThe Lake County Times front page of 12 May 1920 carries an International News Service dispatch from Chicago on the shooting of James Colosimo at his cafe.
The Laramie Republican (Laramie, Wyo.)Laramie Republican, 16 January 1920, page 1: Old J. Barleycorn is out of businessThe Laramie Republican's front page of 16 January 1920 leads with an Associated Press dispatch from Chicago saying national prohibition takes effect at midnight.
Las Vegas Age (Las Vegas, Nev.)Las Vegas Age, 18 May 1929, page 1: Scarface Al lands in jailThe Las Vegas Age front page of 18 May 1929 carries a United Press story from Philadelphia on Al Capone's guilty plea and one-year sentence for carrying a concealed weapon.
The Mahnomen Pioneer (Mahnomen, Minn.)Mahnomen Pioneer, 13 December 1929, page 2: Gang member is taken for rideA syndicated feature on the July 1929 killing of Irving Shapiro in Detroit, 'one of the mainstays of the Purple gang', with Inspector Garvin's view that it marked 'the beginning of the end' and an account of how the gang got its name.
The Manning Times (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.)Manning Times, 13 October 1926, page 1: Gangland silence after the State Street shootingThe Manning Times front page of 13 October 1926 carries an Associated Press story from Chicago on the machine-gun attack opposite Holy Name Cathedral.
The Milwaukee Leader (Milwaukee, Wis.), Mail EditionMilwaukee Leader, 6 July 1928, page 5: Furtive guards watch over gangland’s rulerPage 5 of the Milwaukee Leader, 6 July 1928: a United Press feature describing the Metropole Hotel at Michigan Boulevard and 23rd Street, Chicago, as Al Capone’s base, with a mention of the Hawthorne Inn in Cicero.
The Milwaukee Leader (Milwaukee, Wis.)Milwaukee Leader, 15 February 1929, page 15: Widows keep gangland's silence codePage 15 of the Milwaukee Leader, Mail Edition, 15 February 1929: continuation of the front-page report on the Chicago garage killings, with the shells found on the floor and a list of the dead.
The Milwaukee Leader (Milwaukee, Wis.), Mail EditionMilwaukee Leader, 20 March 1929, page 1: Matches wits with U. S. in gang probeFront page of the Milwaukee Leader, 20 March 1929: a report that Capone was questioned before a federal grand jury on the eighth floor of the federal building in Chicago about a beer syndicate in the suburb of Chicago Heights.
The Milwaukee Leader (Milwaukee, Wis.), Mail EditionMilwaukee Leader, 27 March 1929, page 1: Al Capone is arrested for contemptFront page of the Milwaukee Leader, 27 March 1929: a short report that Capone was arrested on a contempt-of-court charge as he left a federal grand jury room in the federal building in Chicago.
The Milwaukee Leader (Milwaukee, Wis.), Mail EditionMilwaukee Leader, 21 May 1929, page 1: Chicago gangs form syndicateThe Milwaukee Leader front page of 21 May 1929 carries a United Press story by Robert T. Loughran claiming that Chicago gang factions signed a peace pact at Atlantic City.
The Milwaukee Leader (Milwaukee, Wis.)Milwaukee Leader, 25 July 1929, page 4: Detroit's rum ring now disorganizedA short item from Detroit: the 'purple gang', once Detroit's most powerful bootlegging organization, was 'disorganized' after a federal jury convicted four of its ringleaders, Abe Axler, Eddie Fletcher, Harry Sutton and Irving Milberg, of prohibition violations.
The Milwaukee Leader (Milwaukee, Wis.)The Milwaukee Leader, 30 December 1929, page 3: clash over the Black Duck inquiryUnited Press continuation on the investigations of the 29 December 1929 Coast Guard shooting of the rum boat Black Duck in Narragansett Bay, with the survivor's account that no proper warning was given.
New Britain Herald (New Britain, Conn.)New Britain Herald, 5 November 1928, page 1: Rothstein's case baffles policeThe New Britain Herald front page for 5 November 1928 carries an Associated Press story from New York on police efforts to question George McManus after the shooting of Arnold Rothstein.
New Britain Herald (New Britain, Conn.)New Britain Herald, 6 December 1928, page 3: Sugar monopoly drew Cleveland gangstersAn Associated Press report: police and federal investigators believed an upheaval in the corn sugar trade drew twenty-seven 'gangsters' to Cleveland, twenty-three of whom were arrested in a downtown hotel.
New Britain Herald (New Britain, Conn.)New Britain Herald, 20 June 1929, page 12: Dry army and navy seek to stem booze invasionA Detroit-datelined feature on federal prohibition enforcement on the Detroit River: seventeen Coast Guard cutters assigned to 'the Detroit rum war', Canadian customs figures on liquor landed in Detroit, and the claim that trucks carrying liquor to other cities were escorted by the 'Purple Gang'.
New Britain Herald (New Britain, Conn.)New Britain Herald, 1 July 1930, page 15: Lingle suspect caught in raidPage 15 of the New Britain Daily Herald, 1 July 1930: an Associated Press item on a man arrested in a raid in the Lingle murder inquiry, which places Jake Lingle’s body in the Illinois Central subway under Michigan Avenue at Randolph Street.
The New York HeraldNew York Herald, 9 September 1921, page 1: Girl's Escort Shot by Gunmen in MotorA front-page report of a shooting from a car at Seventh Avenue and Twenty-eighth Street, Manhattan, in which, the Herald said, detectives were trying to lay the trouble to "the Owney Madden gang," which it called "officially non-existent for some time."
New-York Tribune (New York, N.Y.)New-York Tribune, 15 April 1903, page 1: Man's body in a barrelThe New-York Tribune front page of 15 April 1903 reports the discovery of an unidentified man's body in a barrel on East Eleventh Street and the police theory that it was a secret-society killing.New-York Tribune (New York, N.Y.)New-York Tribune, 16 April 1903, page 1: eight arrested in the barrel caseThe New-York Tribune front page of 16 April 1903 reports the arrest of eight men by police and Secret Service agents on suspicion of counterfeiting and of the killing of the man found in a barrel two days earlier, and names Giuseppe Morello among them.New-York Tribune (New York, N.Y.)New-York Tribune, 21 April 1903, page 1: barrel victim identified as a Buffalo manThe New-York Tribune front page of 21 April 1903 reports that the man found in the barrel was identified as a 48-year-old stone mason from Buffalo, after Detective Petrosino showed his photograph to the dead man's brother-in-law in Sing Sing.New-York Tribune (New York, N.Y.)New-York Tribune, 28 January 1910, page 8: counterfeiting witness testifies to a death threatThe New-York Tribune of 28 January 1910 reports the testimony of Antonio Comito, the government's principal witness at the federal counterfeiting trial of eight men, that he printed counterfeit notes at a farm near Highland, N.Y., and that Morello and Lupo threatened him.New-York Tribune (New York, N.Y.)New-York Tribune, 19 February 1910, page 4: counterfeiting case goes to the juryA short New-York Tribune report of 19 February 1910 that the case of the eight men charged with counterfeiting, among them Ignazio Lupo and Giuseppi Morello, 'alleged leader of the band', would go to the jury after Judge Ray's charge.
New-York Tribune (New York, N.Y.)New-York Tribune, 20 February 1910, page 1: long jail terms for eight counterfeitersThe New-York Tribune front page of 20 February 1910 reports that eight men were convicted of counterfeiting after a trial of twenty-five days and sentenced the same afternoon, Lupo to thirty years and Morello to twenty-five. A scan is stored here.New-York Tribune (New York, N.Y.)New-York Tribune, 20 February 1910, page 3: sentencing story continued, with press speculationPage 3 of the New-York Tribune of 20 February 1910 continues the counterfeiting sentencing story under portraits captioned 'Italians sentenced for counterfeiting', and repeats detectives' unproven suspicions about the barrel killing and the Petrosino killing. Flagged as speculation.
New-York TribuneNew-York Tribune, 3 June 1915, page 14: Owney Madden, Found Guilty in Gang Killing, Escapes Chair by Manslaughter VerdictThe Tribune's report that a jury in the Court of General Sessions found Owen Madden guilty of manslaughter in the first degree for instigating the killing of William Moore, alias Patsy Doyle, with a photograph of Madden and the two women witnesses.
New-York Tribune (New York, N.Y.)New-York Tribune, 28 October 1919, page 1: House repasses the enforcement bill after a vetoThe New-York Tribune's front page of 28 October 1919 leads on the House repassing the prohibition-enforcement bill three hours after President Wilson vetoed it, and prints the text of his veto message.
New York Tribune (New York, N.Y.)New York Tribune, 17 August 1921, page 1: 8 Held in 51 Murders Charged to CamorraFront page of the New York Tribune, 17 August 1921: police arrest eight men in New York on homicide charges after an informant's confession to a killing at Avon, N.J. "Stefano Magadinno, thirty years old," of Brooklyn, heads the list of those arrested.
New York Tribune (New York, N.Y.)New York Tribune, 22 August 1921, page 4: Guards Hired By Rich Italians Fearing MurderPage 4 of the New York Tribune, 22 August 1921: a follow-up on the August arrests, reporting that a man leaving for Italy had been threatened by members of the "Camorra band headed by Lombardi and Magaddino, now awaiting trial."
The Nome Nugget (Nome, Alaska)Nome Nugget, 23 February 1929, page 1: Two others arrested connected with gang massacreShort Associated Press item on the front page of the Nome Nugget, Alaska, 23 February 1929, on a Detroit arrest in the Chicago garage-killings inquiry.
New-York Tribune (New York, N.Y.)New-York Tribune, 17 October 1890, page 2: Assassination in New-OrleansA special dispatch of 16 October reports that Chief of Police Hennessy was shot at midnight by assailants posted on Rampart and Basin streets and died hours later; nine men were in jail by daylight. The paper repeats a claim that an Italian society orders assassinations.
New-York Tribune (New York, N.Y.)New-York Tribune, 15 March 1891, page 2: Stamped Out in Blood, and Italy May Demand IndemnityPage 2 carries a New Orleans account headed 'Stamped Out in Blood. The Mafia in New-Orleans Receives Its Death Blow,' and a Washington special, 'Italy May Demand Indemnity,' saying the State Department had held that a lynching of foreign subjects gave no strictly legal claim for damages.
New-York Tribune (New York, N.Y.)New-York Tribune, 17 March 1891, page 5: All Quiet in New Orleans (continued), interviews with Parkerson, the Italian consul and Mayor ShakespeareA continuation of a front-page story with interviews: Parkerson defends the action; the Italian consul says the trouble is between the Matrangas and the Provenzanos and demands a change of venue; the Mayor says Parkerson and his associates 'did just right.'
New-York Tribune (New York, N.Y.)New-York Tribune, 2 April 1891, page 1: correspondence on Baron Fava's recall (Fava's letter of 31 March and Blaine's reply)A front-page report that Baron Fava, the Italian minister, presented his letters of recall on 1 April 1891, with the correspondence given out by the State Department. Fava's letter of 31 March recalls his notes of 15 and 18 March on New Orleans.
The Ocala Evening Star (Ocala, Fla.)Ocala Evening Star, 16 January 1920, page 1: The Eighteenth Amendment takes effect at midnightThe Ocala Evening Star's front page of 16 January 1920 carries an Associated Press story from Washington saying constitutional prohibition takes effect at midnight.
Omaha Monitor (Omaha, Nebraska)Omaha Monitor, 4 January 1929, page 1: 'Hold Holstein Kidnappers'A two-sentence Associated Negro Press item reporting that 'Michael Hornstein,' named as one of the ringleaders in the Casper Holstein kidnapping, was held in $25,000 bail when arraigned in New York. Other papers spell the name Bernstein and give other bail figures.
The Omaha Morning Bee (Omaha, Neb.)Omaha Morning Bee, 26 January 1925, page 1: Torrio puts up a life battleThe Omaha Morning Bee front page of 26 January 1925 carries a United Press story from Chicago saying John Torrio refused to say who shot him.
Pittsburg Dispatch (Pittsburg, Pa.)Pittsburg Dispatch, 15 March 1891, page 1: New Orleans lynching report with the 'Meeting Held Last Night' sectionA front-page report that includes a section on the night before the killings: secret meetings after the verdict, the Mayor's law-and-order committee, and a printed call for a mass meeting at the Clay statue 'to take steps to remedy the failure of justice in the Hennessey case.'
Richmond Dispatch (Richmond, Va.)Richmond Dispatch, 15 March 1891, page 2: A Terrible Resort. Eleven of the New Orleans Sicilian Suspects LynchedAn Associated Press dispatch of 14 March, with the paper's own approving headline, on the killing of eleven prisoners and the coroner's inquest; the text is the same account the Indianapolis Journal printed.
The Richmond Planet (Richmond, Va.)The Richmond Planet, 3 May 1930, Illustrated Feature Section: 'Do Racketeers Really Rule America?'A feature by James A. Jackson calling the numbers game 'the dominant racket of today,' with his account of how it began and how it paid. It is a period opinion piece with posed illustrations, filed as a record of how the game was described in 1930, not as a source of fact.
The Richmond Planet (Richmond, Va.)The Richmond Planet, 23 August 1930, page 1: Elks answer Casper Holstein's callA front-page report from Richmond that about fifty Elks met on 17 August 1930 in answer to a call from Caspar Holstein of New York, who attacked Grand Exalted Ruler J. Finley Wilson. It records Holstein's public role in the fraternal order; it is not an organized-crime record.
The Times (Richmond, Va.)The Times (Richmond), 18 October 1890, page 1: The Hennessy Homicide. A Bloody Sequel to the Recent AssassinationDispatches of 17 October: a newspaper carrier shot prisoner Antonio Scaffidi in the Parish Prison; 'John Matranga alias Caramba, the leader of the Matranga faction' was arrested as an accessory; the paper describes the Provenzano and Matranga factions; the chief lay in state and was buried.
The Times (Richmond, Va.)The Times (Richmond), 13 March 1891, page 1: The Argument Closed. The Hennessy Murder Case Given to the JuryA New Orleans dispatch of 12 March reports the closing arguments in the Hennessy trial and an outburst by the prisoner Politz in the courtroom.
The Times (Richmond, Va.)The Times (Richmond), 14 March 1891, page 1: The Verdict "Guilty" (an early wire report)An early dispatch headed 'The Verdict "Guilty"' says the Hennessy jury convicted Scaffidi, Politz and Monastero; this contradicts the Sun, the Evening World and the Pittsburg Dispatch, which report not-guilty verdicts as to six defendants and disagreement as to three.
The Times (Richmond, Va.)Richmond Times, 15 March 1891, page 1: Foul murder avenged: the New Orleans prison killingsThe Richmond Times front page of 15 March 1891 reports the lynching of eleven men at the New Orleans parish prison, approving it in its headline, which conflicts with the verdicts reported in other papers of the same date.
The Rock Island Argus and Daily Union (Rock Island, Ill.)Rock Island Argus, 12 May 1920, page 1: Thirteen held in the Colosimo shootingThe Rock Island Argus front page of 12 May 1920 carries a United Press dispatch from Chicago saying thirteen men were held after the shooting of James Colosimo.
San Antonio Daily Light (San Antonio, Tex.)San Antonio Daily Light, 20 February 1891, page 1: telegram note on the opening of the Hennessy trialOne line in a column of boiled-down telegrams reads 'Five jurors in four days is the outcome in the Hennessy trial,' dating the slow jury selection in the first week of the trial.
San Antonio Light (San Antonio, Tex.), Home EditionSan Antonio Light, 28 April 1926, page 1: Prosecutor slain by gangThe San Antonio Light front page of 28 April 1926 leads on the shooting of Assistant State's Attorney William H. McSwiggin and two companions near Chicago.
The Morning News (Savannah, Ga.)Savannah Morning News, 15 March 1891, page 1: A city in arms: the New Orleans prison killingsThe Savannah Morning News front page of 15 March 1891 reports the killing of eleven prisoners at the New Orleans parish prison and, in a background section, that the jury had acquitted six defendants and returned a mistrial on three.
The Savannah Tribune (Savannah, Ga.)The Savannah Tribune, 27 September 1928, page 1: the Casper Holstein kidnapping, reprinted from the New York WorldA front-page report, datelined New York, 24 September and drawn from the New York World, that Casper Holstein of Harlem had been abducted at midnight on Thursday and was held for $50,000 ransom, that five men had been arrested and that twenty detectives were on the case.
The Savannah Tribune (Savannah, Ga.)The Savannah Tribune, 27 September 1928, page 4: the Holstein kidnapping story continuedThe continuation of the front-page Holstein story: Michael Bernstein of the Bronx held on the kidnapping charge with four other men, the ransom demand made to Holstein's secretary, the abduction outside 265 West 145th Street as this paper prints it, and Holstein's release after three days.
The Enterprise (Seattle, Wash.)The Enterprise (Seattle), 4 October 1928, page 1: Casper Holstein's photograph and the police doubtsA Seattle weekly's front-page photograph of Casper Holstein with a caption story saying police doubted his account of the kidnapping, and reporting that he had sued a New York paper for libel over an alleged claim that he kept a policy house. The libel claim is the paper's report.
Seward Daily Gateway (Seward, Alaska)Seward Daily Gateway, 15 February 1929, page 1: Bloodiest page gang-war history Chicago writtenAssociated Press front-page report in the Seward Daily Gateway, Alaska, 15 February 1929, on the killing of seven men in a North Clark street garage; an example of early wire reporting with a partly wrong list of names.
South Bend News-Times (South Bend, Ind.)South Bend News-Times, 15 October 1927, Mishawaka section page 16: Cleveland police probe double bootleg murderAn International News Service item of 14 October repeating that the brothers Joseph and John Lonardo, described as sugar dealers who supplied bootleggers, were killed in a Cleveland barber shop, and that Joe 'is said to have kept a bodyguard'.
South Bend News-Times (South Bend, Ind.)South Bend News-Times, 7 December 1928, page 3: Cleveland police round up bandits in fashionable hotelAn International News Service dispatch: twenty-three alleged gangsters who had been arriving in Cleveland for two days were arrested in suites at the Hotel Statler, most of them carrying pistols.
South Bend News-Times (South Bend, Ind.)South Bend News-Times, 15 February 1929, page 1: Seven gangsters die in Chicago underworld battleThe South Bend News-Times front page of 15 February 1929 carries a dispatch from Chicago on the killing of seven men in a cartage-company garage the day before.
South Bend News-Times (South Bend, Ind.)South Bend News-Times, 28 July 1929, page 1: Detroit gunman taken for rideA United Press item on the killing of Irving Shapiro, 25, an 'alleged member of the Purple Gang', while four alleged ringleaders convicted in federal court that week waited in the Wayne County jail.
South Bend News-Times (South Bend, Ind.)South Bend News-Times, 17 December 1929, page 1: Chicago police link Burke in gang massacreUnited Press front-page report from St. Joseph, Michigan, in the South Bend News-Times of 17 December 1929: the man known locally as Fred Dane is identified as Fred R. Burke, and Calvin Goddard is to test the machine guns found in his home.
South Bend News-Times (South Bend, Ind.)South Bend News-Times, 7 February 1930, page 1: Detectives hunt kidnaped brokerA United Press item from New Haven on the search for Max Price, a broker kidnapped on 28 January 1930; two of nine people arrested were 'said by New York police to be members of the notorious purple gang in Detroit'.
South Bend News-Times (South Bend, Ind.)South Bend News-Times, 11 June 1930, page 1: Chicago masses forces after the reporter's deathThe South Bend News-Times front page of 11 June 1930 carries a dispatch from Chicago on the hunt for the killer of Chicago Tribune reporter Alfred Lingle.
South Bend News-Times (South Bend, Ind.)South Bend News-Times, 20 August 1930, page 8: Cleveland gang murders enemyA United Press item from Cleveland: police saw a 'resumption of gang activities for control of this city's corn sugar industry' in the shooting of a man thought to be Frank Alessi, an associate of the slain Lonardo brothers.
The South Bend News-Times (South Bend, Ind.)South Bend News-Times, 11 December 1930: New York judge quits bench as probe continuesA United Press dispatch on the New York inquiry into the magistrates' courts reports that "Mme. Stephanie St. Clair," called "the policy queen of Harlem," appeared at the investigation and said she had been "framed" by the police and wanted to tell of money she paid to detectives and police officials.
South Bend News-Times (South Bend, Ind.)South Bend News-Times, 19 December 1930, page 2: Gunman sues city for return of carA United Press item from Detroit: Joe Bernstein, 'reputed purple gang leader', sued the city for the return of his armored car, one of three seized in ten days after the 'Buckley grand jury' ordered seven armored cars confiscated.
Springfield Weekly Republican (Springfield, Mass.)Springfield Weekly Republican, 14 October 1926, page 5: Police expect rum gangs to continue machine gun warfarePage 5 of the Springfield Weekly Republican, 14 October 1926: Associated Press reports from Chicago on the 11 October shooting in front of Holy Name Cathedral on North State Street.
Springfield Weekly Republican (Springfield, Mass.)Springfield Weekly Republican, 2 January 1930, page 1: secrecy over the Coast Guard inquiryAssociated Press report from New London, dated 30 December 1929, that the Coast Guard's inquiry into the Black Duck shooting began in secrecy, with a separate inquiry to be held at Providence.
Springfield Weekly Republican (Springfield, Mass.)Springfield Weekly Republican, 25 September 1930, page 5: Chicago grappler is believed victim of gangland gunsPage 5 of the Springfield Weekly Republican, 25 September 1930: an Associated Press item from Chicago that says police raided the Lexington Hotel on South Michigan Avenue, a place it calls a Capone haunt, while searching for Frank Nitti.
St. Paul Daily Globe (Saint Paul, Minn.)St. Paul Daily Globe, 17 October 1890, page 1: Died of His WoundsA New Orleans dispatch of 16 October reports that Chief of Police David C. Hennessy, shot down by three men shortly before midnight, died at 9 o'clock that morning at the Charity Hospital; the paper says the assassination was supposed to be the work of Italians.
St. Paul Daily Globe (Saint Paul, Minn.)St. Paul Daily Globe, 15 March 1891, page 1: New Orleans lynching account with a 'Roster of Avengers'A front-page account of the killings in the Parish Prison, followed by a section titled 'Roster of Avengers: List of the Signers of the Memorable Call to Arms' naming the citizens who signed the call to the mass meeting. The signers are not repeated here.
The Sun (New York, N.Y.)The Sun (New York), 17 October 1890, page 1: report on the shooting and death of Chief of Police HennessyFront-page New Orleans report on the shooting of Chief of Police David C. Hennessy near midnight and his death the next morning; it says two groups of men lay in wait, that he fired back, and that arrests of Italians followed, and repeats allegations about societies called the 'Mafia' and 'Stoppaglieri.'
The Sun (New York, N.Y.)The Sun (New York), 7 March 1891, page 5: 'Mafia secrets may come out' (Hennessy trial dispatch)A New Orleans dispatch dated 6 March on the Hennessy trial then under way says the whole story of the 'Mafia' might come out unless a prisoner became too insane to speak; it also states that 'there has not been a bit of evidence adduced' of a Mafia.
The Sun (New York, N.Y.)The Sun (New York), 14 March 1891, page 1: Enraged at Their VerdictA dispatch of 13 March reports the jury's verdict in the case of nine Italians accused of killing Chief Hennessy: not guilty as to six, no agreement as to three, with the crowd denouncing the jury and secret meetings at which lynching was 'openly advocated.'
The Sun (New York, N.Y.)The Sun (New York), 15 March 1891, page 1: lynching of eleven prisoners in the New Orleans jailFront-page report dated New Orleans, 14 March, that a mob 'led by lawyers and merchants' killed eleven of the nineteen Italians charged with the murder of Chief Hennessy; the deck headlines state that the action was approved by the leading exchanges.
The Sun (New York, N.Y.)The Sun (New York), 15 March 1891, page 2: The slaughter at the prisonPage 2 of the New York Sun of 15 March 1891, continuing its report from New Orleans of the armed mob that broke into the Parish Prison and shot prisoners held in the Hennessy case.The Sun (New York, N.Y.)The Sun (New York), 16 April 1903, page 2: how Morello and Petto were arrestedPage 2 of the Sun of 16 April 1903 carries a long account of the barrel-murder inquiry, crediting Secret Service Chief Flynn, Inspector McClusky and Detective Sergeant Petrosino, and describing the arrest of Morello and Petto at the Bowery and Delancey Street.
The Sun (New York, N.Y.)The Sun (New York), 21 April 1903, page 1: man found in barrel knownThe Sun's front page of 21 April 1903 identifies the man found in the barrel as Benedetto Madonia, a stone mason of Buffalo, and credits Detective Sergeant Petrosino and Inspector McClusky's staff with the identification. A scan is stored here.The Sun (New York, N.Y.)The Sun (New York), 20 February 1910, page 1: Lupo to prison for 30 yearsThe Sun's front page of 20 February 1910 reports that eight men were found guilty on all six counts of counterfeiting and sentenced, Lupo to thirty years and Morello to twenty-five, and quotes Judge Ray on the verdict.
The Sunday Star (Washington, D.C.)Sunday Star, 14 April 1929, page 2: Police quizzed in gang massacreAssociated Press report in the Sunday Star, Washington, of 14 April 1929 on the coroner's inquest session at which the police chiefs of Cicero and Melrose Park were questioned about their departments' guns, under the direction of Maj. Calvin Goddard.
The Sunday Star (Washington, D.C.)Sunday Star, 26 January 1947, page 1: Capone, Prohibition mobster, attains his wish to die in bedAssociated Press death report on the front page of the Sunday Star, Washington, 26 January 1947: Capone died at 7:25 p.m. on 25 January at his villa on Palm Island, Miami Beach.
The Sunday Star-News (Wilmington, N.C.)Sunday Star-News, 26 January 1947, page 1: Scarface Al Capone diesFront page of the Sunday Star-News, Wilmington, N.C., 26 January 1947, carrying the Associated Press report of Capone's death at Miami Beach the night before.
The Union Daily Times (Union, S.C.)Union Daily Times, 29 April 1926, page 1: Machine gun used in killing of the hanging prosecutorThe Union Daily Times front page of 29 April 1926 carries an Associated Press story on the investigation into the shooting of Assistant State's Attorney William H. McSwiggin.
The Union Daily Times (Union, S.C.)Union Daily Times, 12 October 1926, page 1: Gangsters kill three more victims in ChicagoThe Union Daily Times front page of 12 October 1926 carries an Associated Press report from Chicago on the machine-gun attack near Holy Name Cathedral.
The Washington Daily News (Washington, D.C.)The Washington Daily News, 7 December 1927, page 22: papers served in the Hoff suit against TunneyUnited Press sports item that Gene Tunney's manager was served papers in an action by Max (Boo Boo) Hoff of Philadelphia, who sought a percentage of the champion's earnings.
The Washington Daily News (Washington, D.C.)The Washington Daily News, 7 September 1928, page 3: Philadelphia and the alcohol "racket"United Press report that Philadelphia's district attorney called the city a chief distributing center for diverted alcohol, with a grand jury that had returned 182 indictments and testimony naming Max Hoff as a buyer of machine guns.
The Washington Daily News (Washington, D.C.)The Washington Daily News, 10 September 1928, page 4: the Philadelphia grand jury in its fourth weekUnited Press and staff reports on the Philadelphia grand jury inquiry into bootlegging and police graft, including a detective captain's suspension and testimony naming Max Hoff as a buyer of machine guns and vests.
The Washington Daily News (Washington, D.C.)The Washington Daily News, 13 September 1928, page 3: Monaghan on Christmas gifts to policeUnited Press report that Philadelphia's district attorney told the grand jury of $250,000 in Christmas presents to policemen in 1926 attributed to Max Hoff, whom the report calls the alleged head of a bootleg ring.
The Washington Daily News (Washington, D.C.)Washington Daily News, 30 November 1928, page 5: McManus, two others to be indicted todayA United Press dispatch from New York on the expected indictments in the killing of Arnold Rothstein, who, the story says, was fatally shot in the Park Central Hotel on November 4, 1928.
The Washington Daily News (Washington, D.C.), Home EditionWashington Daily News, 15 February 1929, page 1: Fear seals the lips of those who saw Chicago killersThe Washington Daily News front page of 15 February 1929 carries a United Press story from Chicago saying fear kept witnesses and gang figures silent after the killing of seven men.
The Washington Daily News (Washington, D.C.)Washington Daily News, 15 February 1929, page 4: Fear seals the lips of those who saw Chicago killersPage 4 of the Washington Daily News, 15 February 1929: the continuation of the front-page story on the Chicago garage killings, naming the seven dead, with a news-agency photograph of the crowd outside the garage.
The Washington Daily News (Washington, D.C.)Washington Daily News, 22 February 1929, page 11: Capone gang claims attempt to link it in massacreUnited Press report in the Washington Daily News, 22 February 1929, on the dismantled "firing squad" auto found in Capone's territory and the claim that it had been planted.
The Washington Daily News (Washington, D.C.)Washington Daily News, 26 March 1929, page 2: Massacre is traced to Al Capone's avengersUnited Press story of 26 March 1929 setting out a newspaper reconstruction of why the seven men in the Chicago garage were killed.
The Washington Daily News (Washington, D.C.)The Washington Daily News, 18 May 1929, page 9: Capone in MoyamensingAssociated Press report from Philadelphia the day after Al Capone's sentence, with the mayor's statement, Capone's account of an Atlantic City meeting, and word that he would be moved from Moyamensing to Holmesburg.
The Washington Daily News (Washington, D.C.)Washington Daily News, 15 November 1929, page 8: news digest entry on the Lonardo acquittalA one-sentence entry under 'Justice' in a daily news digest: the widow of the murdered 'Big Joe' Lonardo, once bootleg sugar king of Cleveland, was acquitted of killing 'Black Jack' Todaro.
The Washington Daily News (Washington, D.C.)Washington Daily News, 3 December 1929, page 8: Imprisonment Costs Capone His Rule of Chicago RacketsA Newspaper Enterprise Association feature by Bruce Catton on the Chicago rackets while Al Capone was in prison, with a photograph captioned "'Bugs' Moran, above, rising star of Chicago gangdom." The claims in it are the writer's.
The Washington Daily News (Washington, D.C.)The Washington Daily News, 18 March 1930, page 4: Capone leaves GraterfordUnited Press report that Al Capone, his term served, was removed secretly from the Eastern Penitentiary to Graterford on 17 March 1930 and slipped out of Graterford Prison before sundown.
The Washington Daily News (Washington, D.C.)Washington Daily News, 30 August 1930, page 2: English police hunt for 'Legs' DiamondA United Press item from London: New York police had asked Scotland Yard to find and hold Jack "Legs" Diamond, the Home Office had decided not to let him land, and the captain of the Baltic said he was not aboard.
The Washington Daily News (Washington, D.C.)The Washington Daily News, 12 November 1930, page 2: Hoff's second suit against TunneyUnited Press item that Gene Tunney faced a $400,000 action by Max (Boo Boo) Hoff, Philadelphia promoter, for a share of his pre-championship earnings.
The Washington Times (Washington, D.C.)Washington Times, 14 October 1927, page 3: Brothers die in rum warAn International News Service dispatch from Cleveland: the brothers Joseph and John Lonardo, described as sugar dealers who supplied bootleggers, were killed in a barber shop the night before.
The Washington Times (Washington, D.C.)Washington Times, 5 November 1928, page 1: Gambler near death, won't squealA front-page dispatch by Theodore B. Goetz from New York on Arnold Rothstein, who lay near death in a hospital with a bullet wound in the abdomen while police searched for the man who shot him.
The Washington Times (Washington, D.C.)Washington Times, 6 November 1928, page 1: Rothstein dies, mum to endThe Washington Times front page of 6 November 1928 carries an International News Service story from New York reporting that Arnold Rothstein died of a gunshot wound without naming his assailant.
The Washington Times (Washington, D.C.)Washington Times, 7 November 1928, page 28: Police seek 2 in Rothstein slayingAn International News Service dispatch from New York on the search for the men who were in room 349 of the Park Central Hotel when Arnold Rothstein was shot, and on the arrangements for his burial.
The Washington Times (Washington, D.C.)Washington Times, 15 February 1929, page 2: 40 arrested in weird gang killingsPage 2 continuation in the Washington Times of 15 February 1929: the coroner's jury is empanelled, federal prosecutors will attend the inquest, and the seven dead are listed as police gave them.
The Washington Times (Washington, D.C.)Washington Times, 18 February 1929, image 3: Al Capone blameless in Chicago massacreInternational News Service interview by James L. Kilgallen, Miami Beach, 18 February 1929, in which Al Capone denies knowing anything of the Chicago garage killings.
The Washington Times (Washington, D.C.)Washington Times, 22 February 1929, image 3: Arrests near in gangland massacreInternational News Service report of 22 February 1929 that the dismantled remains of a car like a detective-squad Cadillac were found after a fire in a rented North Side garage, and that officials predicted arrests.
The Washington Times (Washington, D.C.)Washington Times, 13 March 1929, page 2: Gang massacre now believed solvedInternational News Service report of 13 March 1929 relaying a reconstruction, attributed to an attache of the Cook County state's attorney's office, of who carried out the Chicago garage killings.
The Washington Times (Washington, D.C.)Washington Times, 29 July 1929, page 4: Detroit gangster slain; 'Purple Gang' clue seenAn International News Service item: police inspectors said Irving Shapiro, 25, shot dead in Detroit, was affiliated with the 'Purple Gang', which had made enemies by levying on drinking places for protection from hijackers.
The Washington Times (Washington, D.C.)The Washington Times, 22 August 1929, page 11: "Al Capone Goes Literary"Short Philadelphia dispatch placing Al Capone in the Eastern Penitentiary in August 1929 as "Prisoner No. 5527," reading a life of Napoleon after minor surgery.
The Washington Times (Washington, D.C.)Washington Times, 17 December 1929, page 3: Gentleman chief of bank gang linked with 7 killingsInternational News Service report of 17 December 1929 that Chicago police named Fred R. Burke, wanted for killing a St. Joseph, Michigan, policeman, as leader of the garage killers, pending Calvin Goddard's tests of guns found in his bungalow.
The Washington Times (Washington, D.C.)The Washington Times, 30 December 1929, page 2: the Black Duck shooting off NewportDispatch from New London, Connecticut on the Coast Guard's shooting of the rum boat Black Duck off Newport, Rhode Island, on 29 December 1929, in which three men were killed and the helmsman wounded.
The Washington Times (Washington, D.C.)Washington Times, 12 February 1930, page 3: Detroit gang to surrenderAn International News Service item: an attorney promised the surrender of four 'purple gangsters', Raymond, Isadore and Joe Bernstein and Jules Jaffe, after detectives testified that Inspector Henry J. Garvin had altered 1927 arrest reports.
The Washington Times (Washington, D.C.)The Washington Times, 17 March 1930, page 1: "Al Capone Goes Free Today"International News Service report that Pennsylvania's governor signed Al Capone's release papers at 11:25 a.m. on 17 March 1930, as Capone was due to leave the Eastern Penitentiary.
The Washington Times (Washington, D.C.)Washington Times, 9 June 1930, page 1: "Bugs" Moran and 5 Pals MissingAn International News Service dispatch from Chicago reporting a shooting, a police search for George "Bugs" Moran and five others, and a dated list of killings between May 31 and June 9, 1930.
The Washington Times (Washington, D.C.)Washington Times, 23 July 1930, page 1: Gang guns kill radio manAn International News Service report that Michigan's governor flew to Detroit to take charge of the inquiry into the shooting of radio announcer Gerald 'Jerry' Buckley in the lobby of the LaSalle Hotel.
The Washington Times (Washington, D.C.)Washington Times, 29 August 1930, page 4: Irish bar 'Legs' DiamondA short International News Service item from London: the Irish Free State ordered that Jack ("Legs") Diamond, said to be aboard the liner Baltic, be refused permission to land at Queenstown; the ship's captain could not find him aboard.
The Washington Times (Washington, D.C.)Washington Times, 14 October 1930, page 1: Still silent on identity of hotel gunmenA front-page International News Service dispatch by James L. Kilgallen: Jack ("Legs") Diamond, in Polyclinic Hospital, would not say who the two men were who shot him five times in room 829 of the Hotel Monticello.
The Washington Times (Washington, D.C.)The Washington Times, 18 December 1930, page 3: "N. Y. Vice Fires Flare Anew"A short International News Service dispatch from New York on the inquiry into the lower courts reports that Stephanie St. Clair, "Harlem policy queen," asserted after leaving Isidor J. Kresel's office that she had paid tribute regularly to magistrates.
Waterbury Evening Democrat (Waterbury, Conn.)Waterbury Evening Democrat, 16 October 1890, page 4: Chief of Police MurderedA few lines in a column of miscellany on page 4 report that New Orleans Chief of Police D. C. Hennessy was shot from ambush the night before and fatally wounded, and that there were reasons for believing an Italian fired the fatal shot.
Waterbury Evening Democrat (Waterbury, Conn.)Waterbury Evening Democrat, 17 October 1890, page 1: The chief of police of New Orleans shot downThe Waterbury Evening Democrat front page of 17 October 1890 carries a New Orleans dispatch reporting that Police Chief David C. Hennessy was shot near his home.
Evening Journal (Wilmington, Del.)Wilmington Evening Journal, 13 March 1909, page 1: Slain by the Black Hand: Petrosino killed in PalermoThe Wilmington Evening Journal front page of 13 March 1909 carries a United Press dispatch from Rome reporting that New York police detective Joseph Petrosino was shot dead in Palermo.
The Wilmington Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.)Wilmington Morning Star, 28 January 1947, page 1: Rites for Capone still remain as secret of familyAssociated Press item on the front page of the Wilmington Morning Star, 28 January 1947: funeral plans remain a family secret, and burial is expected in Chicago.