Richard "Richie" Fitzpatrick (1880-1904) was a top gunman in the Monk Eastman gang, as well as a former member of the Five Points Gang, during the late 1890s until his death in 1904. Year 1880 ( MDCCCLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Year 1904 ( MCMIV) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year starting on 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 The Five Points Gang was a 19th-century Criminal organization based in the Sixth Ward ( The Five Points) of New York City. The 1890s were sometimes referred to as the " Mauve Decade" because William Henry Perkin 's aniline dye allowed the widespread use of that He is best known however for the method of eliminating an Eastman rival where he would meet with the person in question and, after being searched, would inform them that he would not follow Eastman's orders instead seeking to defect to the rival gang and as he excused himself to use the bathroom he would retrieve a planted gun and return surprising the person shooting the victim down. This would later inspire the famous scene in The Godfather Saga. The Godfather is a 1972 Crime drama film based on the 1969 novel of the same name by Mario Puzo and directed
Joining the Five Points Gang under Paul Kelly in the late 1890s, Fitzpatrick defected to the Monk Eastman Gang along with "Kid Twist" Max Zwerbach during the Kelly-Eastman gang war in 1903 becoming a top lieutenant. 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 1890s were sometimes referred to as the " Mauve Decade" because William Henry Perkin 's aniline dye allowed the widespread use of that 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 Max "Kid Twist" Zwerbach born as Maxwell Zwerbach or Zweifach ( March 14, 1884 - May 14, 1908) was an American After Monk Eastman's arrest in 1904, Fitzpatrick began fighting over leadership of the Eastman gang with Zwerbach, eventually splitting the gang into separate factions. On November 1, 1904 while attending a peace conference at a Sheriff Street saloon in the New York Chrystie Street neighborhood, Fitzpatrick was shot to death before the peace talks began. His killer was suspected of being Harris Dahl, aka Kid Dahl, friend of arch-rival Kid Twist. Several weeks later "Kid Twist" lieutenant Vach "Cyclone Louie" Lewis led an attack murdering the remainder of the Fitzpatrick faction. Vach "Cyclone Louie" Lewis (d May 14, 1908) was an early New York gangster and member of the Eastman Gang under Max "Kid Twist" Zwerbach
Further reading
- Fried, Albert. The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Gangster in America. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980. ISBN 978-0-231-09683-6
- O'Kane, James M. The Crooked Ladder. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 1994. ISBN 978-0-7658-0994-0
Richie Fitzpatrick is of Irish decent
References
- 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 978-1-56025-275-7
- English, T. J. Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster. New York: HarperCollins, 2005. ISBN 978-0-06-059002-4
- Sifakis, Carl. The Encyclopedia of American Crime. New York: Facts on File Inc. , 2001. ISBN 978-0-8160-4040-7
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