Prohibition Gangsters: The Rise and Fall of a Bad Generation

Index

259 Accardo, Tony, 1–3, 6, 86, 223 Adams, Franklin P., 126 Adonis, Joe, 49, 80, 155, 156, 193, 223 Ahern, Michael, 137, 139, 140 Aiello, Joseph, 22, 25, 92, 93, 130, 132, 133, 223 Alcatraz, 127, 141, 149, 225 Alessi, Frank, 75 Alger, Horatio, 41 Allen, Frederick Lewis, 119 Alpert, Alex, 206 Americanization of organized crime, 157, 170 Anastasia, Albert, 156, 179, 180, 210, 213, 218, 223; associated with Murder Inc. and Lepke, 199, 202, 203; murdered , 193–196 Andrews Sisters, 192 Annenberg, Moses, 90–91, 190 Anselmi, Albert, 12, 27, 28, 223 Anslinger, Harry, 169, 201, 204 Apalachin conference, 196 Aratoga Inn, 182 Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, 125 Atlantic City conference, 2, 6, 76, 79–96, 109–111, 113, 119, 226; in fiction, 97–105 Atlantic City Daily Press, 19, 88, 96 Balsamo, William and John, 231 Baltimore, 10 Barker,“Ma,” 187 Barrow, Clyde, 187 Basie, Count, 70 Beach, Harry D., 186 beer, 12, 13, 19, 25, 42, 58, 93, 94, 107, 120, 143–146, 149, 172, 181, 183, 225 Bennett, John J., 183 Berger, Meyer, 147, 176, 194 Berger, Paul, 208 Bergreen, Laurence, 28, 29, 82, 95, 131, 232 Berman, Otto, 178, 223 Bernstein, Abe, 62, 64, 223 Bernstein, Henry, 61 Bernstein, Isadore, 62, 223 Bernstein, Joseph, 62, 64, 223 Bernstein, Ray, 62, 223 Bernstein, Sholem, 208 Big Seven, 91, 92, 179 Bitz, Irving, 184 Black Hand, 51 Black Sox scandal, 34 Blanke, Patrolman, 152 Block, Alan, 232 Bloom, Harriett, 213–214 Boccia, Ferdinand, 195 Bonanno, Joseph, 29, 47, 48, 155, 156; last years, 219–222, 224; opinions on Mafia tradition, 158, 159 Boston, 94 Brandeis, Louis, 33 Brasile, Frank, 122 Breakers Hotel, Atlantic City, 83–84 Brockert, Oscar, 146 Index 260 Index Brooklyn, 9, 40; hiding place for Lepke, 199; home of Murder Incorporated, 179, 193, 205 Brown, Florence, 163 Brownstein, Jack , 72–73 Buchalter, Louis Lepke. See Lepke, Louis Buck Rogers (film), 124 Burke, Fred, 27, 224 Burnham, Ill., 93 Burroughs, William, 172 Cagney, James, 123, 125 Capone, Al, 2, 4, 31, 48, 63, 103, 119, 120, 122, 143, 159, 165, 187, 193, 213, 222, 224, 231; at Atlantic City conference , 80–85, 87–93, 95, 96, 109–111; career in the 1920s, 10–30; early life, 9, 10, 48; income tax prosecution and imprisonment, 129–141, 149; intelligence of, 29–30; McSwiggin murder, 19–20; Philadelphia arrest and imprisonment , 107–116; syphilis disease and death, 28–29, 141 Capone, Frank, 14, 224 Capone, Louis, 206, 208, 209, 211, 212, 224 Capone, Mae Coughlin, 10 Capone, Ralph, 14, 23, 112, 132–136, 149, 224 Carney, Edward, 108 Carollo, Charles, 70, 185 Carter, Eunice Hunton, 161 Caruso, Anthony, 74 Cassidy, William, 60 Castellamarese War, 158 Castro, Fidel, 170, 213 Chateau Madrid murders, 42, 43 Chicago, 9–11, 14–30, 67, 72, 103–105, 120; in Atlantic City “treaty,” 92–94; gangs, 12, 13; site of income tax trials, 130–141 Chicago Crime Commission, 109, 120, 130 Chicago Heights, Ill., 13 Chicago Tribune, 10, 92, 109, 132 Cicero, Ill., 13, 14, 18–20, 22, 25, 85, 93, 94, 135, 136 Cleveland, 61, 71–76, 80, 94, 216, 217 Cline, Frank. See Rio, Frank Coast Guard, 51, 57 Cohen, Hymie, 60 Cohen, Louis, 39, 40 Cohen, Rich, 43 Coll, Vincent, 42, 157, 174, 224 Collier’s Weekly (magazine), 125, 150, 175 Collins, Morgan, 19 Colosimo, Jim, 10, 11 Conference on the Limitation of Armaments , 96 Cook, Fred Jay, 94, 219 Copeland, Royal, 127 Cosa Nostra, La, 160, 229 Costello, Frank, 32, 36, 58, 98, 102, 149, 154, 160, 168, 169, 191, 203, 216, 222, 224; at Atlantic City conference, 80– 82, 88, 89, 94; inspiration for “Dave the Dude,” 99, 102; last years, 217–219; rum-running, 50–51 Costner, Kevin, 132 Cottone, John, 148 Crabbe, Buster, 124 Creedon, John, 107–110 Crime Does Not Pay (comic book), 124, 125 Critchley, David, 92, 158, 232 Crowe, Robert Emmet, 17, 19, 130 Crutchfield, William, 15 Cuba, 169, 170, 173, 213, 215, 192, 213 Cugat, Xavier, 192 Culhane, James, 142 Cummings, Homer, 127 Curley, James Michael, 67 Curtis, Tony, 104 Cuthbert, W. S., 89 Daley, William, 67 Dalitz, Moe, 71–73, 80, 219, 224; last years, 216–217 D’Andrea, Philip, 140 D’Antonio, Theresa, 221 “Dark Dolores” (short story), 97–104, 106 Daugherty, Harry, 71 Davis, Richard, 172, 174–176, 178 Demback, Helen, 145, 146 Detroit, Mich., 26, 35, 61–66, 71, 92, 94 Detroit Free Press, 61 Dever, William, 13, 21 Dewey, Thomas, 122, 141...