Summer – Monk Eastman, while traveling through the Bowery, is attacked near Chatham Square by several members of the Five Points Gang. Eastman, armed only with brass knuckles and a slingshot, manages to fight them off knocking out three of the attackers before being shot twice in the stomach by the fourth member. Quickly fleeing the area, Eastman managed to walk to Gouverneur Hospital where he stayed for several weeks. Eastman refuses to speak to police about the incident. However, only a week after his release, a Five Pointer was found shot to death between Grand and Chrystie Streets.
Births
Joseph Rao [Joseph Cangro], drug trafficker and associate of Dutch Shultz
Black Hand leader Giuseppe Morello is released from prison and begins counterfeiting operations to smuggle counterfeit $5 US dollar bills from Sicily into New York.
Spring – Backed by Monk Eastman, the Cherry Hill Gang and a new generation of Whyos under Bill "the Brute" Sanger begin fighting amongst each other resulting in hundreds being injured in gunfights. Crime in the area, particularly armed robbery and assault, dramatically increases as a result.[4]
April 14 – New York police find a body stuffed in a barrel, similar to the New Orleans "barrel murders" of the previous decade. The dead man was later identified by a US Secret Service agent as Benedetto Madonia, an associate of counterfeiters and Black Hand leaders Giuseppe Morello, Tomasso "The Ox" Petto, and Ignazio "the Wolf" Lupo. This would later lead to an investigation by New York police detective Joseph Petrosino.[5][6][7]
September 16–17 – A particularly violent gun battle between the Eastman and the Five Points Gangs, over an attempted raid by the Five Pointers of a local Rivington Streetstuss game, eventually involves over a hundred gangsters (including the Gophers who fired at both the Eastmans and Five Pointers alike) causing Tammany Hall to force leaders Monk Eastman and Paul Kelly to make peace.[8][9]
Winter – The truce between Monk Eastman and Paul Kelly ends after a barroom brawl in a Bowery dive bar between gang members Hurst and Ford, of the Eastmans and Five Pointers respectively, with Hurst seriously injured. Eastman, demanding Ford's life, threatens to invade Kelly's territory. With Kelly's refusal to turn Ford over to the Eastmans, both sides again prepare for war. However, a truce is again arranged by Tammany Hall politician Tom Foley, who threatens to withdraw political protection from the gangs if they did not comply. A prize fight is arranged between the two gang leaders which lasts over two hours until both men eventually collapse and the fight is declared a draw. Following the fight, both gang leaders continue preparing for war.
Johnny Torrio, under the alias J.T. McCarthy, opens a saloon on New York's James Street and Walker Street which operates as a bordello. Hiring several former James Street Gang members, of which he was a member as a teenager, as protection he becomes involved in Paul Kelly's Five Points Gang becoming a top lieutenant by the following year.
Then 14-year-old Salvatore Sabella, future boss of the Philadelphia crime family, murders a local butcher in Sicily, for whom Sabella was an apprentice, who reportedly violently beat the boy. Sabella is sent to prison in Milan in 1908.
August 1 - Joe Masseria is arrested for burglary and extortion but is released on suspended sentence.[27]
August – Upon the death of Michael Cassius McDonald on August 9,[28] the Chicago crime lord's criminal operations are divided among his former lieutenants: Chicago alderman Jacob "Mont" Tennes, gambler "Big" Jim O'Leary and the Bud White Combine. However, three main factions arise as a bombing campaign to control the city's illegal gambling operations continues throughout the summer.
Hymie Weiss is first arrested for burglary. It is this incident that, while caught robbing a perfume store, he is dubbed the "Perfume Burglar" by Chicago reporters.
June 8 - Sicilian mafiosi Raffaele Palizzolo, wanted for murder, escapes Sicily and arrives in New York. He later leaves the city before Joseph Petrosino can arrest him.[30]
July 23 – Labor racketeer Cornelius Shea is sentenced in Boston to six months in prison for abandoning his wife and two young children.[31][32]
June – Monk Eastman is released from Sing Sing prison by the State Board of Parole. (The parole is first reported in Buffalo on the 19th, with most of the New York City papers carrying the story on the following day.)[34][35] However upon his return to the East Side, Eastman finds the remnants of his gang had broken apart since Max Zwerbach's death as various factions fought among each other over what was left of the former Eastman territory.
July 23 – Labor racketeer Cornelius Shea is sentenced to 5 to 25 years in Sing Sing for brutally slashing and stabbing his mistress 27 times in New York City.[36]
August – A violent Tong war begins after Low Hee Tong, a member of the New York Four Brothers Tong, purchases a rival Tong slave girl Bow Kum who is murdered on the 15th.[37]
^Ledbetter, Les (March 31, 1981). "FRANK TIERI, 77, CONVICTED NEW YORK CRIME LEADER". The New York Times. p. 22. Retrieved May 1, 2020. Frank Tieri, who Federal authorities said was the first person ever convicted of heading an organized-crime family, died at Mount Sinai Hospital Sunday after a long illness. He was 77 years old. [...] Born in 1904 in Castel Gandolfo, the Italian village about 15 miles south of Rome that is best known as the papal summer residence, Mr. Tieri emigrated to the United States from Naples in 1911.
^Bureau of Narcotics, Sam Giancana, The United States Treasury Department. Mafia: The Government’s Secret File on Organized Crime. 2007. (pg. 85)
^"Gang Kills 'Eat-'Em-Up' Jack M'Manus," The Evening World, May 26, 1905.
^"More Bloodshed in Feuds in East Side," The Standard Union, May 26, 1905.
^"Tell of Bribery Behind Strikes," The Chicago Tribune, June 2, 1905.
^"An Artful Dodger Caught," The New York Times, October 4, 1905.
^"Mysterious Murder in village of Browntown," Pittston Gazette, October 23, 1905.
^"Because of Fear Kidnapped Boy's Memory Fails," The World (Evening Edition), March 8, 1906.
^"'Black Hand' Chief Killed with Needle," The Evening World, November 1, 1906
^"Black Hand Leader Dead," Elmira Gazette, November 2, 1906
^"Shot Black Hand Man Dead," The Sun, November 14, 1906.
^"Italians Put Blame on the Sicilians," The New York Times, April 18, 1907.
^"Alfano Wanted in Italy," New-York Tribune, April 20, 1907.
^"Italian Accuses Two Nephews of Blackmail," The Standard Union, August 1, 1907.
^"Mike M'Donald Dies; Second Wife Absent," Chicago Tribune, August 10, 1907.
^"2 Killed at Coney by Jealous Suitor," The New York Times, May 15, 1908.
^"'King of the Mafia' Lands Here Openly," The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, June 10, 1908.
^"Shea Jailed for Not Supporting Family," Daily Evening Item (Lynn, MA), July 24, 1908.
^"Prison for Teamster Shea," Chicago Tribune, July 24, 1908.
^"Petrosino Slain, Assassins Gone," The New York Times, March 14, 1909.
^"Monk Eastman Is Free Man Again," Buffalo Evening News, June 19, 1909.
^"Monk Eastman Free on Prison Parole," The New York Times, June 20, 1909.
^"C. P. Shea, Stabber, Sent to Sing Sing," The New York Times, July 24, 1909.
^"Young Chinese Girl Slain in Chinatown," The New York Times, August 16, 1909.
^"Gipsy's Marchers Storm Sin's Fort," Chicago Tribune, October 19, 1909.
^"Tong War Closes Theatre," The Sun, December 31, 1909.
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