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Nine hundred feet below the pavement, Owney Morrison works on a tunnel that will bring water to millions of New York City taps. Drill, blast, drill, blast, 45 ft. a day, 225 ft. a week. The job will take years and men's lives. Some will get careless and fall down shafts; others will be blown up when they stick their drills into holes containing unexploded charges. Most will succumb to what can euphemistically be called the sandhog's life-style, a grimy regimen that scorns the world of paper pushers and blots out feelings with alcohol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Just One More for the Road | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...leggers, to be their accredited agents was widely viewed as a desperate admission that the nation's police system had knuckled under to the nation's criminals. It was at this point that prominent gangsters began trying to enter the case in pursuit of either public sympathy or publicity. Owney Madden of the Manhattan beerage offered his support. Scarface Al Capone posted a reward for the child's return, expressed a wish to Hearst Editor Arthur Brisbane that he be let out of his Chicago jail long enough to direct the release of the child. Last week this offer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: A Hard Case | 3/18/2005 | See Source »

...born Brooklyn and Broadway character, Murray Garsson had been arrested half a dozen times for crimes ranging from plain robbery to evasion of corporation laws. His only conviction was for speeding (sentence suspended). He had been a pal of New York City's gang kingpins Dutch Schultz and Owney Madden, was suspected of being their partner in illicit breweries. The FBI had Garsson down as suspect of arranging protection for big-time bootleggers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Murray Garsson's Suckers | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

Murray Garrson was the kind of character an investigating committee likes to find. According to the F.B.I, he was once tied up in New York's brewery trade with gangsters Dutch Schultz and Owney Madden. He had twice gone through bankruptcy, had been arrested on charges ranging from disorderly conduct to grand larceny, but never served a sentence. Brother Henry Garrson had an impressive array of engineering degrees and a spotless record as an engineering consultant. But he had been indicted, tried and acquitted on a charge of pocketing a $5,000 bribe while working as an Internal Revenue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Tallyho! | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

Manhattan's erstwhile best-known gangster and beerlegger, British-born Owen Victor ("Owney the Killer") Madden, became a U.S. citizen in Hot Springs, Ark. One of the rare big-time racketeers who have retired with a whole skin, Madden moved to Hot Springs soon after he got out of Sing Sing ten years ago, now putters in his flower garden, dabbles in local uplift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Mar. 29, 1943 | 3/29/1943 | See Source »

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