# Owney Madden

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/people/owney-madden/

Named in a 1930 syndicated newspaper series as one of the men behind the boxer Primo Carnera's management, "since his release from Sing Sing," and in a witness statement on the FBI's Fur Dressers Case page, in 1915 New York newspaper reports of his manslaughter trial and conviction, in a 1921 report of a shooting, and in three passages of the Kefauver hearings where other witnesses name him. No federal case, FBI file or court opinion about him has been found.

The 1930 series and the FBI page describe Madden through other people's words: a journalist's series on boxing and a witness quoted by the FBI. Neither is a court finding. The newspaper series also recounts earlier arrests and charges; this page does not repeat them, because no court record of them has been filed. The 1915 pages report, as the papers printed it, a New York trial in which Madden was described as charged with instigating the killing of a rival and a jury's verdict of manslaughter in the first degree; the court record itself has not been opened. The 1921 page reports detectives' suspicion of "the Owney Madden gang," a paper's account of a police theory. The three Kefauver passages are other witnesses' statements that name him, two of them placing him at Hot Springs, Arkansas; he did not testify, and none of them is a finding of the committee.

No record filed on this page states a family, a rank, or a role in any organization.

## Sources

- Evening Star, 9 October 1930, page D-2 (Chronicling America): https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1930-10-09/ed-1/?sp=48