Mr. Young
Part 2: History of the
Mafia
Sociology
 First used in the early 1930’s by Frank Loesch to
describe individuals who were criminals and extremely
dangerous
 Know used as the FBI Ten Most Wanted List
 Loesch said he started using the phrase:
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"I had the operating director of the Chicago Crime Commission bring before me a list of the
outstanding hoodlums, known murderers, murderers which you and I know but can’t prove, and
there were about one-hundred of them, and out of this list I selected twenty-eight men. I put Al
Capone at the head and his brother next, and ran down the twenty-eight, every man being really an
outlaw. I called them Public Enemies, and so designated them in my letter, sent to the Chief of Police,
the Sheriff every law enforcing officer. The purpose is to keep the publicity light shining on Chicago's
most prominent, well known and notorious gangsters to the end that they may be under constant
observation by the law enforcing authorities and law abiding citizens.“
 Melvin Purvis-Born
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October 24, 1903
5’5” 127lbs.
Brought in (killed) John
Dillinger and Pretty Boy
Floyd, commits suicide
in 1960
The Man who Got
Dillinger
 Born January 17, 1899 in
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New York
Member of two “Kid
gangs”
Nicknamed “Scarface”
Was sent to New York to
cool off and became Boss
after John Torrio
attempted assassination
Reported income of
$100,000,000 a year
 February 14, 1929
 Owned by rival George
“Bugs” Moran
 Capone’s men dressed
like police officers and
killed 7 men
 More than 150 bullets
fired
 Isolated and Killed his
enemies: Rent apartment
across street and murder
them as they stepped
outside
 Even though he was
violent, he was loyal
 Also first to open soup
kitchen after 1929 stock
market crash and give
clothes/food to needy at
his expense
 Capone’s Headquarters
at Metropole Hotel (5room suite)
 Capone started in
Atlanta but took over
 Sent to Alcatraz and
became model prisoner
 Had some symptoms of
Syphilitic Demenita
 Died January 25, 1947
from cardiac arrest
 Born June 22, 1903 in
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Indianapolis
Joined Navy but deserted
in Boston
Pleaded guilty to a robbery
and spent 8 ½ years in jail
(very upset)
Dillinger escaped from the
Indiana State Prison
Later Dillinger escaped
from the “unescapable”
Crown Point jail with a
wooden gun
 Anna Sage, who worked at
a brothel in Indiana,
helped to give information
to the police
 Dillinger and two ladies
went to the Biograph
Theater to watch a Clark
Gable Movie
 Dillinger tried to escape
but was shot 3 times and
died later in a Hospital on
January 22, 1934
 This was the beginning of
the end of the Gangster Era
 December 6, 1908 in
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Chicago, Illinois
5’4” tall and weighed 133
pounds
Given the nickname
because of his Juvenile
appearance
Escaped while being
transported between jails
Became connected with
Dillinger gang in 1933
 Killed special agents
Hollis and Crowley
(responsible for Dillinger
death) in a gun battle
 Nelson was also injured
during the battle and
died later that evening
on November 27, 1934
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apq46lA0uSM
 Met January 1930
 Bonnie was 19 and married
to an imprisoned
murderer; she never
divorced him
 Clyde was 21 and
unmarried
 By their death, considered
to have committed 13
murders and several
robberies and burglaries
 You've read the story of
Jesse James-Of how he lived and died;
If you're still in need
Of something to read
Here's the story of Bonnie
and Clyde.
 Some day they'll go down
together;
They'll bury them side by
side;
To few it'll be grief-To the law a relief-But it's death for Bonnie
and Clyde
 Helped with a jail break of
5 prisoners at the Eastham
State Prison Farm in Texas
 Bonnie and Clyde were
found to be hidden by the
Methvin family and were
eventually killed May 23,
1934 while trying to drive
away in Louisiana
 Around 170 shots fired,
about 50 hit them
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAr-CULUb6E
 Start at 1:08
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhHD-
8bAIeQ&feature=related
 Start at 3:04
 Born July 18, 1895 in
Memphis, TN
 Poor Student whose
highest Grade (C+) was
in good physical hygiene
 Started as a bootlegger
 Married Young but could
not make enough money
legally to support his
family
 Married Kathryn Thorne,
an accomplished criminal,
and took his status to the
next level, eventually
becoming “Public Enemy
#1”
 Would take cartridges from
her husbands gun and
distribute them
throughout the
underworld
 Interesting to note, it is
said he never killed anyone
 During his arrest in
Memphis, Kelley coined
the phrase, “G-Men, please
don’t shoot.”
 Was given a Life sentence
and when he threatened to
break out, was sent by train
to Alcatraz, where he was
one of the first group of
Prisoners.
 He was AZ #117
 Died of a heart attack July
18, 1954, on his 59th
birthday
 Born February 3, 1904
 Married with a son, but
girlfriend in 1929 gave
him the name “Pretty
Boy”
 From 1929-1934 carried
out a string of 30
successful bank
robberies
 Chief Suspect along with
Adam Richetti in killing
4 law officers, now found
that he may not have
been involved
 FBI agent Melvin Purvis
shot and killed Floyd
outside a corn field on
October 22, 1934.
 20,000 people attended
his funeral, the largest in
Oklahoma history
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26Pr3oKmHn8
 http://ndepth.newsok.com/gangsters