Gus Winkler (March 28, 1900–October 9, 1933) was a St. Louis mobster who, with Fred Burke, was head of a criminal gang specializing in armed robbery and murder for hire. Events 37 - Roman Emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate, entitled to him by the Senate. Year 1900 ( MCM) was an exceptional Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar Events 768 - Carloman I and Charlemagne are crowned Kings of The Franks. Year 1933 ( MCMXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
Born August Henry Winkeler in St. Louis, Missouri, Winkler was a member of Cuckoo Gang during his teenage years. After a stint as an Army ambulance driver in World War I, Winkler joined up with the Egan's Rats gang before moving to Detroit in the mid-1920s. World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All Egan's Rats was an Irish-American street gang that exercised considerable power in St Working with the Purple Gang until mid-1927, he and Burke were hired out for freelance work from Al Capone and the Chicago Outfit (circumstantial evidence points to Winkler who, along with Burke, Robert Carey and Fred Goetz, may have been some of the gunmen involved in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre) as well as beginning a national crime spree holding up banks, armored cars, and mail trucks from New York to Los Angeles. The Purple Gang was a mob of bootleggers and hijackers in the 1920s The Chicago Outfit shortened to " the Outfit " is a Crime syndicate based in Chicago Illinois, USA. Robert Carey may refer to Robert Carey 1st Earl of Monmouth (c Fred Samuel Goetz ( February 14, 1897 - March 20, 1934) also known as "Shotgun" George Ziegler, was a Chicago mobster and 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
Winkler and Burke's organization broke up during the fallout from the Valentine's Day massacre, and Winkler was suspected of planning and later taking part in the robbery of US$2 million from a bank in Lincoln, Nebraska in September 1930. The United States dollar ( sign: $; code: USD) is the unit of Currency of the United States; it has also been The City of Lincoln ( Umóⁿhoⁿ: Nískithe Tʰóⁿwoⁿgthoⁿ ˈnĩskiˡðe ˌtʰãwãŋgˡðã meaning "Salt Village" for Salt Creek which was the Soon enough, Gus was able to carve out a lucrative position in the rackets of Chicago's North Side, despite his cooperation with authorities.
Upon Capone's 1931 imprisonment, Winkler was surrounded by gangsters who he didn't trust, particularly Francesco "Frank 'The Enforcer' Nitti" Nitto, who had always been resentful at how close Gus had been to Capone. Francesco Raffaele Nitto, better known as "Frank 'The Enforcer' Nitti" ( January 27, 1888 – March 19, 1943) was an
While entering the beer distribution office of Charles Weber, at 1414 Roscoe Street, on October 9, 1933, Winkler was shot six times and killed by unknown assailants armed with shotguns and died a half-an-hour later after arriving at a local hospital. Events 768 - Carloman I and Charlemagne are crowned Kings of The Franks. Year 1933 ( MCMXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
References
- Egan's Rats: The Untold Story of the Prohibition-Era Gang that ran St. Louis, by Daniel Waugh, Cumberland House Publishing, 2007.
External links
- Taking Care Of Winkler: The Last of the Independents by John William Tuohy
- Gus Winkler at Find-A-Grave
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