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Re: Owney "The Killer" Madden.
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Five Points Gang - from this gang came some of the most notable gangsters of the depression period including Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, Johnny Torio, Frankie Yale and Jimmy.
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Re: Owney "The Killer" Madden.
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Owney Madden also had the ear of corrupt mayor Leo McLaughlin when he moved to Hot Springs to retire. Think he still had a few interests out there and had his headquarters at the Southern Club on Central Avenue where he handled some stuff for New York.
Ex-President Bill Clinton grew up near him as a kid and his mother was a nurse for Owney Madden.
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Re: Owney "The Killer" Madden.
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I´m not sure, but I think he was a WASP, which made him kinda unique in the New York gangster world among all the Irish, Jewish, German and Italian mobsters. I read he was born in Leeds, England in a upper middle class home, if I´m not mistaken. Here is a doc on him where he is mentioned as been Irish, so I´m not sure about his origin.
german mobsters?
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Re: Owney "The Killer" Madden.
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They were not pure german people but german jews.....as for Madden,he was a irish descent
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Re: Owney "The Killer" Madden.
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The Germans are definitely the forgotten minority of New York. You never hear much about them, but there were a lot of them in the city in those days, Jewish and Christian. They had their own German-language newspapers, their own theaters, churches, clubs, etc, and obviously they ran most of the breweries. They also brought hot dogs and pretzels to America. In those days anyone of Germanic descent was just called Dutch, so sometimes people don't even realize that many of the "Dutchmen" people were talking about back then were Germans. Spot on. There was a huge German population in Yorkville (upper east side) around 1900-1930. Many mobsters of this era were Germen. But I never found them interesting enough so their names slips my mind right now.
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