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SECTION 3 NEW YORK, SUNDAY, JULY 20, 1919 cowrw. m. mmm, a, TWELVE PAGES. Gangs and the Gangsters as They Pass From View,

- i - , HARRY t iirvgy paopd 'now m ii' mam . wm m mmmm imp v YAT r j ifa small WVyTO swrwirwi 'i ii.i.ii,nnw rk-- BJK j SHSk ' " Hi i II III I Warn II IIi III Mill FAMILIAR, BsWsVsHJHHHHnBi 4 GANG TYPE if h k Cowardice Matches s. - Viciousness in s) Criminals Whose 1 Price Lists for Kill- - , Black DeedsStand ing Maiming nn Out in Under- and Show Cheap1 world History How Human Life Was This is the first of a series of Held by Notori-i- i three articles in which the full history of the gangs and gang- i sters of New York, from the s c v u iwn rvv i o earliest days, will for the first time be told. In the next article will be some extremely interest- in tong circles such up to data methods as turning on ing facts about the great power the gas whlh .sd victims were deep pleas- wielded by these organisations in their in the Mis the last century and tome of the ures of an opium sleep. That was the way the killers of Hip Sing great gang fights that waged for the T. Tong got rid of "Big Mike" days. Abrams. MS a noted gangster and opium fiend, n whose delight it was to beat up By HERBERT ASBURY. chinamen. The Italian gangs to- of a- - gangs and gangsters who day are more or less quiescent, al- though are still plenty of in varying degrees there them THE up in Little Italy and in Mulberrv In New York city for almost a kept every Bend. century, reaching alive the dives there used The gangs f the height of their means of getting a livelihood that that terrorized the Bow- power and strength in the palmy days could be conjured up by a perverted ery and Chinatown for almost fifteen - years and won many a elec- of the Bowery- and Chinatown dur- brain. When stuss and poker and notable and tion victory and whose decline ing the rule of the crooked politician, other gambling games were running started wide open on the East Side it was when the Committee of Fourteen be- constituted an interesting and a sinis- their favorite pastime to hold up th gan closing the dives In the neighbor- ter phase of city life, largely because owners of the game. They- levied hood of Chatham Square were led by they and the conditions which were re- blackmail on the merchants and Jews and Irishmen. These gangs used pedlers of the pistol and the knife, one sponsible for their being were their territory, they held as well funda- up and robbed the dives and Baloons as the other, and besides that they mentally preventable. owned by members of opposing gangs, slugged with blackjacks and leadpipe, Essentially creatures of circum- they were pickpockets, footpads, loft they gouged nut eyes, they cut throats many stance and the logical outgrowth of the workers and a great of them and they used poison and gas. There were that lowest of all thieves, the is even one conditions influences instance where a gangster, and with which "lush-worke- a man who lays In wishing to they were surrounded, the gangsters rid the earth of a rival, wait for drunken men and robs them. Hi Lumpllshed purpose all through the history of New his by introduc- York Many of them were Kagins, that Is, ing a live and poisonous have kept pace with environ- snake intd their they trained boys to pick pockets, and. the bed. although ment. As the divea and resorts were rival's where tin some years ago, at the height of the gangster git the snake the allowed to increase in numbers and gangster's power, the police estimated records In depravity, say not. so did the gangs and the that no fewer than a hundred men In ! power of the gangsters multiply and New York had from twenty to thirty The QsBugstrs Price List grew; and as the moral crusades of boys picking pockets for them and t the early part of the present century turning over the procieds of the rob- Hut the plundering methods of the succeeded in closing the dives, and as beries. gangs have ever been the same. They n politics became a off little less crooked, Many Modern lived crooked politics, receiving h the gangs dwindled in membership Kin, money for voting a score and more M and in criminal activity. At the close And an excellent idea of the manner times and for using strong arm meth- b of Arthur Woods's administration as of men the gangsters were may be ods to keep decent citizens from vot- k Police Commissioner, with practically gained from the fact that at least 90 ing. They would do any sort oi no open dives and with the city In bet- per cent, of them lived largely on the iTimin.U Job for hire. Murder was ter condition morally than It ever had earnings of women of the streets. cheap and maiming whs cheaper. It been, New York was almost gangless; There were few gangsters who did Warn possible to get a man killed for or at any rate there wore no gangs In not have at least one woman walking ten dollars, although if the prospective any way comparable to the bands of the streets for them. Some of these victim were prominent enough plunderers shop- tii and cutthroats that ruled women were pickpockets and make it likely that there would be snv the lower East Side from 1900 to 1911 lifters, also, and such was their men- activity by the police the price ran as or 1M. tal peculiarities that the woman rare- rrlgh as J100 man, and on rare occasions ly failed to hand over to her her tftOO. Some year ago m Myth. every rob- the police had a I'"l""' noriirr gangster, the proceeds of price list, supposed provided he beat to be in the hand Much has been written about gangs bery she committed wilting of "I'lker" Ryan, gang twenty-fiv- e enough. a noted during the last years, and her often lighter and killer in a great deal of it gangster Police records, and the newspaper who flourished abont the has ll'OO or thereabout. This list been held up as a brave and skilful stories of the gangsters and the gang had this fights, a great many of the schedule of prices for killings and plunderer and murderer, spectacular show that maimings and crafty. But police officials who murders among the gangs were over know the gangsters say was women usually occurring when a Punching!! there eyes nothing brave or spectacular about the woman tired of some particular Both blacked 14 gangster. Crafty he was, to be sure, gangster and cast her lot with an- Nose ;il)d Jaw bust $lu and a long practice In picking pockets, other. Such noted gangsters as sHB... tMsVsl Jacked out (knocked out with I or robbing drunken men, or blowing "Spanish Louis," 'Crazy Butch," one sHbVbVbVHbH blackjack) $15. safes, or using knives and revolvers of the most famous of the Kagins of Ear chawed off 11 had made him skilful. But he was his time, and Bill Harrington, owed Leg or arm broke I i to women. -- really anything but brave. When hs their deaths primarily their Shot in leg 123. killed, nine What the police thought of the Stab wound $2.'. times out of ten it was up In a shadow doorway, gangsters is well summed liolng the big Job J100 up. from the of a dark or In 1912 by slipped up behind his statement made back That is exactly the way he victim and S. Dougherty, when he was mm mmm mum him out George rasnwHimmi sWsVasWsVansVBQsWHiinnisVsi written in Ryan's knocked with a blackjack or a Deputy Commissioner of Police, it Piker notebook, an4 piece leud pipe. He killed be- on it lias of from "The gangsters." he said, "are the later been said that he added He plundered, 110 hind. but usually he vilest and meanest criminals we have another item that uf for the goug. plundered those ng out an e who could not afford to deal with. They are vicious, cow- of M to complain tu the police because they ' ardly and repulsive creatures, who rob I were crooked, those LEFTY LOUIE GYP tA uf Murder all. themselves and the poor, levy tribute on the gamblers m the, BLOOP, TWO of Z MURDERERS of HERMAN ROSENTHAL,, NOTORIOUS GANGSTERS who knew that it was of no use to and rob the unfortunute women of the Hut in I9K' murder was a Ml complain, because the police were con- streets. They are a disgusting lot." meaner, in tost year me ponce cap- trolled by the crooked politician, and Yet there have been a few of them, tured a gangster who cave them what politician had election day uses for "Eat-'em-u- a, lie siii'l was a schedule of prlcCfl the such men as Jack sickly, whining and wheedling, but a is any record In New Toi k, those of be- (jieii or were muri". a gang lights else to do loafed on I corners, murder, They thai gangster. he street became pasl masters in his gang charged for doing the Biff Ellison and Monk East- !ad man with a gun so long as he fore the sivll war and for ten to thirty had orthodox Jewish all. There rushed the can beer and fought at the of maiming on enemy by variout are very few where lunar for art such things maiming ami killing Thii Thsrs Instances man, who were brave men and will- could shoot from cover of a door- years afterward, were dominated by was the case of "Spanish popu- the of a They were evi- gentle like gangsters stood toe to toe the Louis." drop hat. in methods us nouging out an eye have with ing to stand toe to toe and fight with way. has been estimated by the the Irish. Then cume the gungs in larly supposed to bo of Spanish principally or biting off Is It: killed In It und dence around election time, an ear or doing all man- their victims and them fair anybody. Such men as these, so far as police the average gangster Is which the Italians were the dominant I'ortuguese descent but he di7.en ner of tilings Slash on cheek II to $10 combat, except, In old that who when when they voted it times each to his anatomy. But perhaps, the the police ever knew, never lived on not morn five and four luetics race, and finally came the was Shot III leg Jl lo 2u only weapons by than feel time when shot had a Jewish funeral. The ni"i then dbi strong arm work at the still they lei the general public pretty days when the used the earnings of women, although they in height and 130 pounds or so In the gangs were controlled und led by names Shot in arm I., to gangsters were Asts and clubs and Irish were udupted because of pells for the politician who had them much alone and confined their mean- - )i the did practically everything else weight. many gang-Bte- r early i Throwing to few exceptions that In Instances the Jews. Most of the gangs of the the traditional prOWSSM of the Irish- i niler his wing iiml gave tliem protec- ess for the most part to rival gangs. bomb i brick bats. With the was criminal. But after all gangsters became u criminal simply part the present century were com- Murder 110 lo 1100 police have always t"en able to worst because of man in battle and the belief of gang tion. Most of their tK'hts were among The gangs In Which the Italian ele- such as these were the exception that he had nothing better to do. Tills is posed of Jews, with a smattering of land name of Mc- ment It (he in fights. Ther. Have been few j that the O'Brien and themselves and with the police, and In predominated, which cams inter. was in veil lin oi Iheret them proved the rule. proved by the fact that the establish- and ltullans, although of was gangsters with sufflcle'-.- i nerve to face Irish Carthy half the battle. those days the gangsters would stand Introduced the knife into gangland and abouts thai gangstei known at The conditions under which the ment of clubs and community houses late years the Italians have shown old an- II goon a cop's nightstick. The way the gangster The Irish gaiiKs. such as the US and fight regardless of the cop's became the most popular Toske Niggfi whose real name wat flourished and came Into end places of that sort in a gang terri- a tendency to fling together and cient Pivg Points, the Bowery Boys, nightstick, Their principal weapons weapon. They Joseph ToplinsUv gangster fought was to hide In the being made him mentally, tory used the pistol alao, conceived the ides stunted lias almost always resulted in a have gangs of own, princi- tiui is of a doorway and when his their Dead Rabbits, the Plug I'glies and wen clubs und and brickbats. and later these weapons be 10 of poisoning horses He organized darkness physically and spiritually. Few of clean up of the district so fur as gangs pally ill Italy. Cams enemy passed stick him in the back Harlem's Little others that flourished before and Im- But the gangs that followed these Wall liked and possessed such obvious gn.'ig and msile I reinendous profits b.1 them were big men physically, and are concerned. This is all true in spite of mediately with a dirk, or else pump a few bul- some the after the civil war were not old time bunds introduced a little more advantages, that the hatchet men ,,fl biting out to various truckmen anil of the most famous of them all, Roughly, the gangs gung-fcter- s Him run. of New York fact that in all the periods the properly composed of gangsters In the refinement and a little more depravity the Chinese tongs others to poison the horses ol lets into and then such as "Humpty" Jackson, who car- may be divided Into abandoned their theif three periods, bore principally Irish names. But modern sense of that word. They were into their work. They began to rivals. In time there came to tfe The gangsters of the sort that ruled ried his pistol under bis hat. were those of the use ancient Implements of killing and used be Irish, the Italian and the the records will show that a great rea)ly hoodlums, young toughs and the pistol a bit and they could he hired the tools of wf t-- fcursnhlwnk, the "white devils.