Word: anderworld
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Flegenheimer was ambushed, police offered several explanations. One was that his legal difficulties had brought so much unpleasant public attention to the local anderworld that it was deemed prudent to eliminate him. Another theory was that since Flegenheimer's exile, other gangs had "muscled in" on his interests. While police estimate that no less than 135 lives have been lost as a direct result of Flegenheimer's outlaw enterprises, he was known to favor the conference rather than the revolver as an instrument of settling jurisdictional disputes. From his Newark hideout he had sent an emissary to Manhattan...
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