1919 In Organized Crime

Events

• Cleveland Black Hand leader Rosario Borgio along with Paul Chiavaro, Vito Mezzano, and Lorenzo Biondo (Bionde) are convicted of the murder of several Akron police officers and executed.
• Frank Costello forms a novelty company which makes Kewpie dolls in punchboard games. By the following year Costello had made $80,000 which he used to become a bootlegger at the start of Prohibition.
• July 29 - New York labor slugger Johnny Spanish is killed by three unidentified gunman possibly including rival gangster Nathan Kaplan.

Arts and literature

Births

Deaths

• Rosario Borgio, Cleveland Black Hand leader
• Lorenzo Biondo (Bionde), Cleveland Black Hand member
• Paul Chiavaro, Cleveland Black Hand member
• Vito Mezzano, Cleveland Black Hand member
• July 29 - Johnny Spanish, Five Points Gang member and labor racketeer

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