"Screwy" Claude Maddox (1897-June 22, 1955?), also known under the alias J. Year 1897 ( MDCCCXCVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Events 217 BC - Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom. Year 1955 ( MCMLV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar) E. Moore, was a Chicago mobster and head of the Circus Cafe Gang whose ranks included future Chicago mobsters Anthony "Tough Tony" Capezio, Vincenzo De Mora and Antonino "Tony" "Joe Batters" Accardo [1]. Jack "Machine Gun" McGurn (1905&ndash February 15, 1936) was a key member of Al Capone 's Chicago -based criminal organization known Antonino "Joe Batters" Accardo aka "Big Tuna" (April 28 1905 - May 22 1992 rose from a small-time hoodlum to the position of day-to-day boss of the During Prohibition, the gang was the single Northside organization allied with Alphonse "Big Al," "Scarface" Capone's Chicago Outfit. Prohibition of alcohol, often referred to simply as prohibition, also known as Noble Experiment, refers to a Sumptuary law which prohibits Alcohol Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone (January 17 1899 &ndash January 25 1947 commonly nicknamed Scarface, was an Italian American Gangster who The Chicago Outfit shortened to " the Outfit " is a Crime syndicate based in Chicago Illinois, USA.
Born John Edward Moore in Missouri, Maddox's criminal record dated back to the age of 17 and was a member of St. Louis's Egan's Rats before settling in Chicago. Egan's Rats was an Irish-American street gang that exercised considerable power in St Operating out of his North Avenue saloon, the Circus Cafe, the gang began as an independent organization and feuded with the dominating North Side Gang during the early years of Prohibition before allying themselves with the Torrio-Capone's forces. Illinois Route 64 is an east-west road in north-central Illinois. The North Side family Gang, also known as the North Side Mob, was the dominant Irish-American Mafia criminal organization (although a large number of Although largely specializing in safecracking, Maddox also supplied weapons through Peter von Frantizius for Capone during his gang war against the Northsiders. Peter von Frantizius (d April 6, 1968) was a Chicago businessman and arms dealer to the Chicago underworld during Prohibition, later dubbed by the press
A suspect in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, Maddox was believed to be involved in at least the early planning stages of the attack. The Saint Valentine's Day massacre is the name given to the murder of seven people as part of a Prohibition Era conflict between two powerful criminal gangs in Chicago In January 1929, Maddox was arrested in a police raid on the Circus Cafe after police discover a drum full of ammunition for Thompson submachine guns as well as numerous overcoats strewn about the back of the cafe (inside one of the coats, a loaded . The Thompson submachine gun is an American Submachine gun that became infamous during the Prohibition era 45 pistol was found). It was speculated that the garage next door was used to "torch cut" one of the getaway cars used in the massacre, however it later caught fire and exploded. Although initially held in custody, Maddox was later released having been in court on an unrelated charge during the time of the massacre. Although reduced to a satellite gang by the end of Prohibition, Maddox himself held a high position in the Chicago syndicate up until his death on June 21, 1955 in his Riverside home, at the age of 58. Riverside is an affluent suburban village in Cook County, Illinois, a significant portion of which is included in Riverside Landscape Architecture District
However, another account claims Maddox fled Chicago after the St. Valentine's Day Massacre to St. Louis and then headed east where he was associated with Charles "Lucky" Luciano and New York's Murder Inc. before disappearing altogether after the executions of Louis "Lepke" Buchalter before his death from a heart attack on December 22, 1968. Charles "Lucky" Luciano (born Salvatore Lucania; November 24 1897 – January 26 1962 was a Sicilian Mobster. Murder Inc, Murder Incorporated or Brownsville Boys was the name given by the press for an Organized crime group in the 1920s to 1940s that carried Louis "Lepke" Buchalter ( 6 February 1897 &ndash 4 March 1944) was a Jewish-American mobster of the 1930s
Further reading
- Binder, John. The Chicago Outfit. Arcadia Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0-7385-2326-7
- Hucke, Matt and Ursula Bielski. Graveyards of Chicago:: The People, History, Art, and Love of Cook County Cemeteries. Chicago: Lake Claremont Press, 1999. ISBN 0-9642426-4-8
- Kobler, John. Capone: The Life and Times of Al Capone. New York: Da Capo Press, 2003. ISBN 0-306-81285-1
- Parr, Amanda Jayne. The True and Complete Story of Machine Gun Jack McGurn: Chief Bodyguard and Hit Man to Chicago's Most Infamous Crime Czar Al Capone and Mastermind of the S. Valentine's Day Massacre. Leicester: Troubador Publishing Ltd. , 2005. ISBN 1-905237-13-8
- Schoenberg, Robert J. Mr. Capone. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1992. ISBN 0-688-12838-6
References
- Fox, Stephen. Blood and Power: Organized Crime in Twentieth-Century America. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1989. ISBN 0-688-04350-X
- Sifakis, Carl. The Mafia Encyclopedia. New York: Da Capo Press, 2005. ISBN 0-8160-5694-3
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