- For the English musician, see Jack McManus (singer). Jack McManus is a 23 year old Brit School educated singer/songwriter from West Wickham Kent in England
Jack McManus (died 1905), also known as "Eat 'Em Up", was a noted New York City gangster around the turn of the 20th century.
Noted as one of the premier boxers of the underworld, rivaled only by Monk Eastman, McManus started off as a prize fighter only to begin work in as a bouncer in the dives of lower Manhattan, including Suicide Hall and New Brighton. "Crime syndicate" redirects here For the DC Comics group of villains see Crime Syndicate. Monk Eastman (c1873-1920 was a New York brawler who founded and led one of the most powerful street gangs in New York City at the turn of the Twentieth Century the Eastman Boxing (sometimes also known as English boxing or pugilism) is a Combat sport in which two participants generally of similar weight, Manhattan Island, in New York Harbor, is much the largest part of the Borough of Manhattan, one of the Five Boroughs which form the City of New York
Eat 'Em Up Jack became known as the right hand man of Paul Kelly, leader of the Five Points Gang. Paul Kelly (1876 - 1936 was a New York criminal who founded the Five Points Gang, one of the last dominant street gangs in New York history and recruited The Five Points Gang was a 19th-century Criminal organization based in the Sixth Ward ( The Five Points) of New York City. Always dressed in the finest clothes, McManus cut a fearsome figure around New York until May 1905, when he met his end after a brawl with gangster Chick Tricker. Chick Tricker was an early New York gangster who as a member the Eastman Gang, served as one of its last leaders alongside Jack Sirocco. After shooting Tricker in a street brawl outside the New Brighton dance hall, Eat 'Em Up Jack was beaten to death in the Bowery by an underworld character known as Sardinia Frank, who crept up behind the gangster and bashed in his skull with a lead pipe. Bowery (ˈbaʊɚi or /ˈbaʊri/ is the name of a street and a small neighborhood in the southern portion of the New York City borough of Manhattan.
In popular culture
- Eat 'Em Up Jack McManus in a minor character in the 1994 novel The Alienist by Caleb Carr. The Alienist is a Crime novel by Caleb Carr first published in 1994 Caleb Carr (born August 2, 1955) is an American novelist and military historian
See also
References
- Herbert Asbury, The Gangs of New York, New York, 1928
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