Julie Morrell or Jules Morello (d. December 2, 1911) was a freelance gunman associated with the Eastman Gang during the turn of the century. Events 1409 - The University of Leipzig opens 1755 - The second Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed by fire Year 1911 ( MCMXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year The Eastman Gang was the last of New York's street gangs which dominated the city's underworld during the late 1890s until early 1910s Hired by Jack Sirocco and Chick Tricker to murder Eastman leader Jack Zelig, who had been engaged in a gang war over control of the Eastmans. Jack Sirocco (1882 - 1954 was a New York gangster involved in labor Racketeering and Strikebreaking. 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. "Big" Jack Zelig ( May 13, 1888 - October 5, 1912) was a New York gangster and one of the last leaders of the Monk Eastman Gang However, upon being informed by local saloonkeeper Ike the Plug to whom Morell had bragged "I'll fill that big Yid so full of holes he'll sink !", Zelig lured the unsuspecting assassin to a Second Avenue dance hall, the Stuyvesant Casino, where the Boys of the Avenue were holding an annual grand ball on December 1, 1911.
Morrell, who had become intoxicated while drinking at Ike the Plug's saloon, staggered in to the dance hall at around one o'clock and began yelling for Zelig as he walked onto the dance floor. Suddenly, the lights were turned off. When the lights came back on seconds later, Morrell had been shot and was lying dead on the dance floor.
Remaining in hiding for two weeks, Zelig was eventually arrested by detectives in New York's East Side and released shortly after. In 1912, Zelig himself was murdered while riding a trolley car. A tram, tramcar, trolley, trolley car, or streetcar is a railborne vehicle, of lighter weight and construction than a Train
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- Asbury, Herbert. Herbert Asbury ( September 1, 1889 — February 24, 1963) was an American Journalist and Writer who is best The Gangs of New York. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. ISBN 1-56025-275-8
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