Events

• "Yellow" Henry Stewart
  Henry Stewart
  Henry Stewart was a professional footballer, who played for Huddersfield Town. He was born in Wigan.-References:*99 Years & Counting - Stats & Stories - Huddersfield Town History...
  
   and three gang members are convicted of armed robbery and imprisoned. Stewart later dies in prison of malaria in 1886
  1886 in organized crime
  -Events:*Former leader of the Yellow Henry Gang, "Yellow" Henry Stewart dies of malaria while serving a prison sentence for armed robbery.*Michael Hennessy, a cousin of New Orleans police chief David Hennessy, is murdered, possibly by a Black Hand assassin, in New Orleans, LA.*October 2 - After an...
  
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• Johnny Torrio
  Johnny Torrio
  John "Papa Johnny" Torrio , also known as "The Fox", was an Italian-American mobster who helped build the criminal empire known as the Chicago Outfit in the 1920s that was later inherited by his protege, Al Capone...
  
   emigrates with his mother Maria Carlucci Torrio to the United States
  United States
  The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
  
   arriving in New York
  New York
  New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
  
   from Osara, Italy
  Italy
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• March 1 - Two members of the Whyos
  Whyos
  The Whyos, a collection of the various post-Civil War street gangs of New York, was the city's dominant street gang during the late 19th century. The gang controlled most of Manhattan from the late 1860s until the early 1890s, when the Monk Eastman Gang defeated the last of the Whyos...
  
  , recently sentenced to six months imprisonment for vagrancy, escape from Hart's Island after swimming to a boat anchored in the Sound. Suspicious of the circumstances surrounding their escape, two prison guards are dismissed from their posts.
• June 4 - The body of George Leonidas Leslie, former leader of the Leslie Gang, is found by a NYPD Mounted Patrolman at the bottom of Tramps' Rock on the border of Westchester County and the Bronx River
  Bronx River
  The Bronx River, approximately long, flows through southeast New York in the United States. It is named after colonial settler Jonas Bronck. The Bronx River is the only fresh water river in New York City....
  
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• July 22 - New York fence Marm Mandelbaum is charged with several counts of grand larceny and receiving stolen goods by the recently appointed District Attorney Peter B. Olney
  Peter B. Olney
  Peter Butler Olney was an American lawyer and politician from New York.-Life:...
  
  . While the trial was scheduled in December, Mandelbaum skipped bail, fleeing to Canada where she would reside for the rest of her life.
• October 21 - James Reilly
  James Reilly
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  , along with his Whyos accomplices John Belfield and James Brown, are tried and convicted of assaulting and robbing an Englishman, Henry Stanley, of $26 after Reilly lured him to a Pell Street saloon.
• December 25 - Dennis Cocoran, formerly of the New Orleans City Hall Department of Improvements and leader of the Poydras Market Gang, stabbed Deputy Sheriff Daniel Haugherty on the corner of Poydras and Liberty Street
  Liberty Street
  Liberty Street was a Canadian drama television series, which aired on CBC Television in 1995.Produced by Kit Hood and Linda Schuyler, the team behind the long-running Degrassi series of television shows, Liberty Street was an attempt to create a similar series depicting the lives of a group of...
  
  s after an altercation only hours before. Taken to Charity Hospital, he died of his wounds at around one o'clock the following morning.

Births

• Frank Nitti
  Frank Nitti
  Francesco Raffaele Nitto , also known as Frank "The Enforcer" Nitti, was an Italian American gangster. One of Al Capone's top henchmen, Nitti was in charge of all strong-arm and 'muscle' operations...
  
   (Francesco Nitti), Chicago Outfit
  Chicago Outfit
  The Chicago Outfit, also known as the Chicago Syndicate or Chicago Mob and sometimes shortened to simply the Outfit, is a crime syndicate based in Chicago, Illinois, USA...
  
   enforcer
• October 1 - Damon Runyon
  Damon Runyon
  Alfred Damon Runyon was an American newspaperman and writer.He was best known for his short stories celebrating the world of Broadway in New York City that grew out of the Prohibition era. To New Yorkers of his generation, a "Damon Runyon character" evoked a distinctive social type from the...
  
   (Alfred Damon Runyon), Organized crime writer
• November 19 - Joseph Ardizzone
  Joseph Ardizzone
  Joseph "Iron Man" Ardizzone was an early Los Angeles mobster, who became the first Boss of the Los Angeles crime family. He was involved in a long-standing feud with the Matranga family, and became the only Los Angeles boss to be murdered by his own men...
  
  , Los Angeles crime family
  Los Angeles crime family
  The Los Angeles crime family is an Italian American criminal organization based in Los Angeles, as part of the American Mafia . Since its inception in the early 1900s, it has spread throughout Southern California. Like most Mafia families in the United States, the L.A. family gained power...
  
  , Boss