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...Vincent ("Mad Dog") Coll was the kind of a gangster that big gangsters mortally fear. He was out to make his reputation as a killer, and he figured that the ratio of his own importance would increase with the importance of the criminals he killed. He had leaders like Owney Madden quite nervous until two men put the finger on him in a telephone booth last winter...
...Lindbergh, bought Manhattan's padlocked Phoenix Cereal Beverage Co.. applied for a license to manufacture 3.2 beer under the brewery's old name of Flanagan-Nay Brewery Corp. Since 1925 the brewery has reputedly been run, with William ("Big Bill") Dwyer, by famed Racketeer Owen ("Owney") Madden, now confidently awaiting parole in Sing Sing prison, who last year ordered an airplane from, and was instructed by. Major Lanphier (TIME, June...
...Sing Sing Prison, the lilies on the chapel's altar at Easter services had been grown by Convict Owen ("Owney") Madden, famed Manhattan beer baron...
...leading gangsters of three leading U. S. cities are leaders no more. Chicago's Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone is rounding out his first year in Atlanta Penitentiary for tax evasion. New York's Owen ("Owney") Madden languishes in Sing Sing for parole violation and Larry Fay, onetime milk racketeer, departed this life New Year's Day, broke. Twenty-four days later Boston's Charles ("King") Solomon, interested in liquor, narcotics and white slaves, was pistoled to death in a Roxbury, Mass, night club...
Sample task at Warwick: to prove to the boys that gangsters are no heroes. When Owney Madden, Manhattan thug, beer-&-whiskey runner, and night club operator, recently returned to Sing Sing (probably to escape competitors who want to maim him), Warwick boys wrote him letters which were sympathetic and full of hero worship...