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Torrio and told him he wanted to sell his share in the brewery, claiming that the Gennas scared him and he wanted to leave the rackets. Torrio agreed to buy O'Banion's share and gave him half a million dollars. On the night of O'Banion's last shipment, the police swept into the brewery. O'Banion, Torrio, and numerous South Side gangsters were arrested. O'Banion got off easily because, unlike Torrio, he had no previous Prohibition-related arrests. Torrio had to bail out himself and six associates, plus face later court charges with the possibility of jail time. O'Banion also refused to return the money Torrio had given him in the deal.
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stood behind the unsuspecting Duffy and shot him in the back of the head. O'Banion then shot Duffy twice more before dumping his body in the snowbank. Police think that O'Banion killed Duffy because he wanted to avoid a highly publicized investigation into the murder of Duffy's wife. By meeting Duffy at a Chicago Outfit club and taking Duffy for "a one way ride", he hoped to shift blame for Duffy's murder onto Torrio and Capone.
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and Albert Anselmi. When O'Banion and Yale shook hands, Yale grasped O'Banion's hand in a tight grip. At the same time, Scalise and Anselmi stepped aside and fired two bullets into O'Banion's chest and two into his throat. One of the killers fired a final shot into the back of his head as he lay face
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Police officials were never able to gather enough evidence to charge O'Banion with Duffy's murder. They theorized that O'Banion and two accomplices drove Duffy to a remote woodland area. Stopping on Nottingham Road, Duffy and O'Banion got out of the car to relieve themselves. At that point, O'Banion
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came into effect, O'Banion was walking down Chicago Street when he came across a parked liquor truck. O'Banion took a roll of nickels out of his pocket, approached the driver and knocked him out. O'Banion proceeded to drive off with the liquor. He sold the whiskey in the back to saloon keepers for a
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Duffy, following a violent drunken argument, had smothered his bride Maybelle Exley with a pillow while she slept (although other sources claim Duffy shot her twice in the head). When he awoke the following morning, he panicked and called a friend, asking for a car and money to get out of town. He
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The last straw for Torrio was O'Banion's treachery in the Sieben brewery raid. Both O'Banion and Torrio held large stakes in the Sieben brewery in Chicago. In May, 1924, O'Banion learned that the police were planning to raid the brewery on a particular night. Before the raid, O'Banion approached
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by O'Banion and an unidentified man. Duffy's body was later found in a snowbank outside Chicago; he had been shot three times in the head with a .38 caliber pistol. Another witness later told police that he saw O'Banion and two other men dump Duffy's body, but he later retracted his statement.
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had formed a secret alliance with the North Side Gang. McErlane used this Thompson in an unsuccessful attempt to kill Spike O'Donnell in September 1925 in what is believed to have been the first recorded use of a "Tommy gun" in Chicago's history.
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Meanwhile, O'Banion continued on the offensive. In February 1924, he moved against his South Side rivals by unsuccessfully trying to frame Torrio and Capone for the murder of North Side hanger-on John Duffy, a gun for hire from
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in other Chicago territories to move to his strip in Cicero. This move had the potential to start a bootleg war. Torrio attempted to convince O'Banion to abandon his plan in exchange for some South Side
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distributors. O'Banion pioneered Chicago's first liquor hijacking on December 19, 1921. He and the "lads of Kilgubbin" quickly eliminated all their competition. The O'Banion mob, known as the
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and others visited Schofield's, O'Banion's flower shop, to discuss floral arrangements. However, the real purpose of these visits was to memorize the store layout for the hit on O'Banion.
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The O'Banion killing sparked a brutal five-year gang war between the North Side Gang and the Chicago Outfit that culminated in the killing of seven North Side gang members in the
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At the height of his power, O'Banion was supposedly making about $ 40 million in 3 years from liquor. During one famous caper, O'Banion and his men stole over $ 100,000 worth of
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In the early years of the "Public Enemy" era, Dean O'Banion and other Irish mobsters of the previous decade served as the basis for many gangster films of the 1930s.
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was soon contacted by O'Banion, who agreed to help him. He told Duffy to meet him at the Four Deuces, a South Wabash club run by the Torrio-Capone organization.
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The gang also met the political bosses of the 42nd and 43rd wards through Annenberg; their job was to use violence to help steer the outcome of elections.
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from the West Side railroad yards. In another famous robbery, O'Banion looted the padlocked Sibly Distillery and walked off with 1,750 barrels of
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O'Banion lived with Torrio's deal for about three years before becoming dissatisfied with it. Since a recent election in neighboring
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voice as his pals were picking pockets in the coatroom. O'Banion also drugged his patrons' drinks, known then as "slipping them a
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O'Banion worked as a waiter at McGovern's Liberty Inn, where each evening he would delight patrons with his beautiful Irish
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in his memory. O'Banion received a lavish funeral, much larger than the Merlo funeral the day before. He was buried in
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O'Banion's twin careers as a florist and Chicago gangster is reflected in the character of Giuseppe Givola in
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of his henchman Louis Alterie. On his way back to Chicago, O'Banion purchased a large supply of weapons in
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and died on November 8, 1924. With Merlo gone, the Gennas and South Siders were free to move on O'Banion.
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denied him burial in consecrated ground. A priest O'Banion had known since childhood recited the
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It is believed that one of O'Banion's machine guns eventually found its way to South Side gunman
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with his father and older brother (a sister, Ruth, remained in Maroa). The family settled in
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As Duffy had been last seen at the Four Deuces, suspicion logically focused on club manager
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At the club, several eyewitnesses reported seeing Duffy being picked up around 8:00 pm in a
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Guns and Roses: The Untold Story of Dean O'Banion, Chicago's Big Shot before Al Capone
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Outlaws of the Lakes: Bootlegging & Smuggling from Colonial Times to Prohibition
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As a youngster, "Deanie," as he became known, sang in the church choir at Chicago's
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Using the Merlo funeral as a cover story, over the next few days Brooklyn gangster
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During the summer of 1924, O'Banion and his wife Viola took a long vacation at the
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that became heated. Their disagreement concerned a debt Genna had incurred at
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had refused to sanction a hit on O'Banion. However, Merlo had terminal
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On November 3, 1924, Dean O'Banion made a telephone call to arch-rival
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wars of the 1920s. The newspapers of his day made him better known as
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featured a fictional version of O'Banion, portrayed by Arron Shiver.
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The Gangs of Chicago: An Informal History of the Chicago Underworld.
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Burials at the Bishop's Mausoleum, Mount Carmel Cemetery (Hillside)
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in Schofield's' back room. Yale entered the shop with Genna gunmen
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Genna liquor shipments. The Gennas sought to murder O'Banion, but
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In 1921, O'Banion married Viola Kaniff and bought an interest in
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He appears as a playable character in the strategy video game
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that the North Side gang boss owned a piece of along with the
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On the morning of November 10, 1924, O'Banion was clipping
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to start shipments immediately, and also struck deals with
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until 1924, when he was shot and killed, reportedly by
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of Chicago that was notorious citywide for its crime.
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Nashville: Cumberland House, 2004. pgs. 27–28, 36–38.
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