Osie Danneman, black messenger for the bank, was the hero, saving $25,000. Three gunmen – determined to seize $25,000 – staged a wild west gun battle at the entrance of the bank in the center of the city, at 10:45 A.M. This sawed-off shotgun was carried in a violin case to the Port Newark National Bank in Newark, NJ on February 28, 1930. Capone smokes a cigar and wears a striped dressing gown and slippers. (Photo by FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)Īmerican gangster Al Capone (“Scarface”) (1899 – 1947) relaxes in his vacation home, Miami, Florida, 1930. (Photo by Bettmann/Getty Images)Ī young man posing as a masked gunman, circa 1930. Yale's car crashed into a house and he was thrown out of the car. The body of noted gang chief Frankie Yale, who was born Francesco Ioele, lies beside his automobile at 44th Street, after Yale was shot to death from a pursuing automobile on July 02, 1928.
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(Photo by NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images) Deputy Chief Stege (right) hands out machine guns to detectives while Chief of Detectives Shoemaker (fourth from left) looks on, January 09, 1927. Primed for warfare, Chicago gangsters forced police to equip themselves with miniature arsenals to cope with gang wars. (Photo by Chicago History Museum/Getty Images) The gun, developed for World War I, was very popular with gangsters due to its high rate of fire. Lieutenant William Shoemacher stands and aims a Thompson machine gun, or tommy gun, Chicago, 1926. Arthur stands in the center of a collection of containers of moonshine taken during a South Side raid in Chicago, Illinois, 1922.
(Photo by Chicago History Museum/Getty Images)Įdwin C. Police officers look over distilling equipment and guns confiscated during a Prohibition raid, Chicago, ca.1920s. The amazing images show notorious mobsters such as Al Capone who committed violent crimes in their search to get rich quick during the early 1930s. Al Capone, Bugs Moran, and John Dillinger and their gangs became household names that were equal parts criminals and celebrities.įrom cold-blooded murders to running battles with the police, these black-and-white pictures shed light on the brutal lives of gun-toting gangsters during the American Depression. After the passage of Prohibition, in 1920, powerful gangs of bootleggers, gangsters, and smugglers formed to profit from illegal alcohol trafficking. In the early 20th century, Chicago was one of the most crime-ridden places in America.
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