Events

• The headquarters of the On Leong Merchant Association is moved to N.Y, 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...
  
  .
• 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...
  
  , under the alias J.T. McCarthy, opens a saloon on New York's James Street and Walker Street which operates as a bordello. Hiring several former James Street Gang members, of which he was a member as a teenager, as protection he becomes involved in Paul Kelly
  Paul Kelly (criminal)
  Paul Kelly was an Italian immigrant who founded the Five Points Gang in New York City after starting some brothels with prize monies earned in boxing...
  
  's Five Points Gang
  Five Points Gang
  Five Points Gang was a 19th-century and early 20th-century criminal organization, primarily of Italian-American origins, based in the Sixth Ward of Manhattan, New York City. Since the early 19th century, the area was first known for gangs of Irish immigrants...
  
   becoming a top lieutenant by the following year.
• Emil Roeski, an associate of the Carn Barn Bandits, is sentenced to life imprisonment.
• February 2 - Monk Eastman
  Monk Eastman
  Edward "Monk" Eastman was a New York City Gangster who founded and led one of the most powerful street gangs in New York City at the turn of the Twentieth Century, the Eastman Gang. His other aliases included Joseph "Joe" Morris, Joe Marvin, William "Bill" Delaney, and Edward "Eddie" Delaney...
  
   is arrested after fleeing from a failed robbery. Without protection from Tammany Hall
  Tammany Hall
  Tammany Hall, also known as the Society of St. Tammany, the Sons of St. Tammany, or the Columbian Order, was a New York political organization founded in 1786 and incorporated on May 12, 1789 as the Tammany Society...
  
  , he is later sentenced to ten years in Sing Sing Prison.
• March 1 - Harvey Van Dine, a co-leader of the Car Barn Bandits, is executed.
• April 22 - Gustave Marx, yet another of the four co-leaders of the Car Barn Bandits, is executed for a crime spree including robbery and murder the previous year.
• November 4 - Hip Sing Tong leader Mock Duck
  Mock duck
  Mock duck is a gluten-based vegetarian food. It is generally made from wheat gluten and is thus high in protein. Its distinctive flavor and artificial "plucked duck" texture distinguish it from other forms of commercially available gluten products. Mock duck can be found in some Chinese grocery...
  
   is wounded in a gunfight by three On Leong hatchet men near his Pell Street home during the 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...
  
   Tong war.

Births

• Michael Coppola "Trigger Mike", Luciano crime family Capo
• Joseph Lanza
  Joseph Lanza
  Joseph A. "Socks" Lanza was a New York labor racketeer and a member of the Genovese crime family.Born in Palermo, Sicily, Lanza immigrated to the United States and settled in New York working as a handler in Lower Manhattan's Fulton Fish Market...
  
   "Socks", 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...
  
   Fulton Fish Market
  Fulton Fish Market
  The Fulton Fish Market is a fish market in The Bronx, New York, United States. It was originally a wing of the Fulton Market, established in 1822 to sell a variety of foodstuffs and produce...
  
   waterfront leader
• James V. LaSala
  James V. LaSala
  James V. LaSala was a Brooklyn mobster and drug trafficker who eventually controlled syndicate drug trafficking in California and several other Southwestern states....
  
  , New York (Brooklyn) mobster and Northern California drug trafficker
• James T. Licavoli
  James T. Licavoli
  A member of the Licavoli Crime Family, James T. "Blackie" Licavoli also known as "Jack White" was a Cleveland, Ohio mobster and one of the earliest organized crime figures to be convicted under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act .-Early life:James Licavoli was born Vicentio...
  
  , Cleveland Mafia leader
• Joseph Rosato, Lucchese crime family
  Lucchese crime family
  The Lucchese crime family is one of the "Five Families" that dominates organized crime activities in New York City, United States, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the Mafia . The family originated in the early 1920s with Gaetano "Tommy" Reina serving as boss up until his murder...
  
   Capodecina
  Capodecina
  A capodecina is the head of a decina, a branch within a Mafia family. In the larger families, a capodecina is selected by the head of the family and coordinates units of about ten people....
  
  , labor racketeer and drug trafficker
• Ettore Zappi
  Ettore Zappi
  Ettore Zappi , aka Anthony Russo, was an Italian-American Gambino crime family capo.He died at his home in Hollywood, Florida after a long illness. He is the grandfather of Genovese crime family capos Frank and Anthony M. Galgano....
  
   (aka Tony Russo), Gambino crime family
  Gambino crime family
  The Gambino crime family is one of the "Five Families" that dominates organized crime activities in New York City, United States, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the Mafia . The group is named after Carlo Gambino, boss of the family at the time of the McClellan hearings in 1963...
  
   Capo, Anthony Anastasio
  Anthony Anastasio
  Anthony "Tough Tony" Anastasio was a New York City mobster and labor racketeer for the Gambino crime family who controlled the Brooklyn dockyards for over thirty years...
  
   bodyguard, and New York (Brooklyn
  Brooklyn
  Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, with nearly 2.6 million residents, and the second-largest in area. Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County, which is now the most populous county in New York State and the second-most densely populated...
  
  ) racketeer
• Frank Tieri "Funzi", Genovese crime family
  Genovese crime family
  The Genovese crime family , is one of the "Five Families" that dominates organized crime activities in New York City, United States, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the Mafia . The Genovese crime family has been nicknamed the "Ivy League" and "Rolls Royce" of organized crime...
  
   boss
• Irving Vine - associate of Edward Vogel and Ralph Pierce
• February 4 - Frankie Carbo
  Frankie Carbo
  Paul John Carbo better known as "Frankie Carbo" was a New York City Mafia soldier in the Lucchese crime family, who operated as a boxing promoter and a gunman with Murder, Inc....
  
  , boxing promoter and Murder, Inc.
  Murder, Inc.
  Murder, Inc. was the name given by the press to organized crime groups in the 1920s through the 1940s that resulted in hundreds of murders on behalf of the American Mafia and Jewish Mafia groups who together formed the early organized crime groups in New York and...
  
   member
• September 22 - Joseph Valachi, Genovese crime family
  Genovese crime family
  The Genovese crime family , is one of the "Five Families" that dominates organized crime activities in New York City, United States, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the Mafia . The Genovese crime family has been nicknamed the "Ivy League" and "Rolls Royce" of organized crime...
  
   soldier, and government informant.

Deaths

• March 1 - Harvey Van Dine, a co-leader of the Car Barn Bandits
• April 22 - Gustave Marx, co-leader of the Car Barn Bandits