From The Peopling of New York City
“A collection of the most desperate ruffians in the city”
Herbert Asbury (1927, The Gangs Of New York)
Owney Madden
- nicknamed "The Killer"
- Part of the Gopher Gang
- Would earn up to 200$ a day by forcing local businessmen to pay a "protection fee" s their property would not be threatened by a potencial bomb attack
- Jealous in his nature
- In 1912 was ambushed and shot 11 times - lived
- Finally went to jail at the age of 23 with the blame of 5 murders in his pocket
- Exited jail after serving 9 years of his sentence, and proceeded in becoming a successfully bootlegger and boxing prommoter
