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When Capone’s Mob Murdered Roger Touhy
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Subtitled “The Strange Case of Touhy, Jake the Barber and the Kidnapping That Never Happened’. When Prohibition ruled America in the 1920’s, it produced a lawless decade and lawless citizens. A mob boss like Al Capone became not only the era’s leading bootlegger but also a pioneer and kingpin in the union extortion racket, a golden source of easy money and underworld power. But there was another major crime figure in the windy city as well; a gangster who emerged from the poverty-drenched Irish slum section in Chicago known as the Valley. His name was Roger Touhy, the son of an honest Chicago policeman and the youngest of the six so-called “Terrible Touhy” brothers. Together the brothers ruled over a small but strong criminal empire on the city’s outskirts, manufacturing and distributing beer, running unions and supporting their war against Capone’s criminal syndicate through a series of widespread and lucrative robberies of the U.S. mail. This is the story of Roger Touhy’s turbulent life. Bibliography Photographs 267 Pgs. 2001 Hardcover
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Subtitled “The Strange Case of Touhy, Jake the Barber and the Kidnapping That Never Happened’. When Prohibition ruled America in the 1920’s, it produced a lawless decade and lawless citizens. A mob boss like Al Capone became not only the era’s leading bootlegger but also a pioneer and kingpin in the union extortion racket, a golden source of easy money and underworld power. But there was another major crime figure in the windy city as well; a gangster who emerged from the poverty-drenched Irish slum section in Chicago known as the Valley. His name was Roger Touhy, the son of an honest Chicago policeman and the youngest of the six so-called “Terrible Touhy” brothers. Together the brothers ruled over a small but strong criminal empire on the city’s outskirts, manufacturing and distributing beer, running unions and supporting their war against Capone’s criminal syndicate through a series of widespread and lucrative robberies of the U.S. mail. This is the story of Roger Touhy’s turbulent life. Bibliography Photographs 267 Pgs. 2001 Hardcover
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