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1950-09-09/1951-01-19

U.S. Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, via Internet Archive

Kefauver Part 5: questions about Owney Madden to Louis Campagna and Daniel Serritella (1950–1951)

Two short exchanges in the Illinois hearings. Asked whether he knew Owney Madden, Louis Campagna said "I know of him" and that he may have met him on the golf course at Hot Springs; Daniel Serritella said he did not know him.

Date
1950-09-09/1951-01-19
Kind
hearing
Source
U.S. Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, via Internet Archive
Retrieved
2026-10-12
Rights
A hearing print of the United States Senate, published by the Government Printing Office. A work of the United States Congress, public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105. The Internet Archive item marks it not in copyright.

Part 5 of the Kefauver hearings prints the Illinois sessions of September 1950 to January 1951. Owney Madden is named in two exchanges, read from the archive’s OCR of the printed pages; the session dates of the two passages were not determined for this page.

In Louis Campagna’s further testimony (pages 550–551), committee counsel Mr. Robinson asks about his visits to Hot Springs, Arkansas, which Campagna places at “maybe 4 years before I went to the penitentiary.” Robinson asks: “Do you know Owney Madden?” Campagna: “I know of him; yes, sir.” Asked if he had met him, Campagna answers: “I may have met him on the golf course,” at Hot Springs, and says Madden never played with him.

In Daniel Serritella’s testimony (page 681), in a passage about the wire service, counsel Mr. Halley asks: “Did you know Owney Madden?” Serritella: “No.” Halley asks whether he knew “that Jerry Sullivan was connected with Owney Madden”; Serritella answers “He didn’t say” and then “I never heard that.”

The passages show that the committee asked witnesses about Madden. The answers do not show any dealings between Madden and either witness, and counsel’s questions are not evidence of the facts they assume.

itemKefauver Committee hearings, Part 5: Illinois (1950–1951)Printed hearings of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, Part 5, Illinois: testimony taken from September 1950 to January 1951, including Paul DeLucia, Louis Campagna, Anthony J. Accardo, and Joseph Aiuppa.itemKefauver Part 2: Virgil W. Peterson's statements naming Owney Madden (1950)Three passages in the Chicago Crime Commission director's statement to the Kefauver Committee in which Owney Madden is named: among Frank Costello's associates of the 1920s and early 1930s, in a list of Costello's associations, and as someone Gaetano Ricci was "understood" to have telephoned in Hot Springs, Arkansas.itemKefauver Part 11: Owney Madden in the testimony of Harry Stromberg and Frank Wiener (1950–1951)Pennsylvania hearings in which Harry Stromberg, indexed as alias Nig Rosen, said he saw Owney Madden at Hot Springs ("He lives there") but "never went to see" him, and a former state athletic commissioner said men including Madden pressed him to reinstate a boxer he had suspended about 1929 or 1930.