1934 in organized crime

Events

  • Phil D'Andrea is elected president of the Unione Siciliana, a Sicilian fraternal organization, in Chicago.
  • April 22 - Baby Face Nelson, hiding out with John Dillinger, at the Little Bohemia Lodge just outside Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin kills FBI Special Agent W. Carter Baum in a shootout.
  • Spring - Headed by Meyer Lansky and Johnny Torrio, organized crime leaders hold a conference at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York to discuss the formation of a National Crime Syndicate.
  • July 2 - Paul Castellano is arrested for the armed robbery of a Hartford, Connecticut store. Sentenced to one year imprisonment in the Hartford County Jail, Castellano serves three months before being released in December.
  • July 22 - John Dillinger killed in Chicago by the FBI.
  • October - New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia orders a police raid on gambling parlors. This raid damages over 1,000 slot machines owned by mob boss Frank Costello.
  • October 9 - Ferdinand "The Shadow" Boccia is abducted by Willie Gallo and Ernest "The Hawk" Rupolo after a dispute with Vito Genovese over a fixed card game. Boccia is later murdered.

Arts and literature

Births

Deaths

  • May 23 - Clyde Barrow, outlaw shot dead by Federal marshals
  • May 23 - Bonnie Parker, outlaw shot dead by Federal marshals
  • July 22 - John Dillinger, Public enemy #1 shot dead by the FBI
  • October 9 - Ferdinand Boccia, New York mobster
  • October 22 -Charles Arthur Floyd, Public enemy #1 shot dead by the FBI
  • November 27 - Babyface Nelson, Public enemy #1 died from wounds suffered in a shootout with 2 FBI agents

References

  1. Document Kyushu Yakuza Wars, "Person, Isoji Koga" (p.228), Masaki Yasuda, December 1990, Seinen-shokan ISBN 4-7918-0496-1 (in Japanese)
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