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1904 in organized crime
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See also: 1903 in organized crime , other events of 1904 , 1905 in organized crime and the list of 'years in organized crime' .
Events
The headquarters of the On Leong Merchant Association is moved to N.Y, New York .
Johnny Torrio , under the alias J.T. McCarthy, opens a saloon on New York's James Street and Walker Street which operates as a bordello. Hiring several former James Street Gang members, of which he was a member as a teenager, as protection he becomes involved in Paul Kelly 's Five Points Gang becoming a top lieutenant by the following year.
Emil Roeski , an associate of the Carn Barn Bandits , is sentenced to life imprisonment.
February 2 - Monk Eastman is arrested after fleeing from a failed robbery. Without protection from Tammany Hall , he is later sentenced to ten years in Sing Sing Prison .
March 1 - Harvey Van Dine , a co-leader of the Car Barn Bandits , is executed.
April 22 - Gustave Marx , yet another of the four co-leaders of the Car Barn Bandits , is executed for a crime spree including robbery and murder the previous year.
November 4 - Hip Sing Tong leader Mock Duck is wounded in a gunfight by three On Leong hatchet men near his Pell Street home during the New York Tong war.
Arts and literature
Births
Michael Coppola , Luciano crime family Capo
Joseph Lanza , New York Fulton Fish Market waterfront leader
James V. LaSala , New York (Brooklyn) mobster and Northern California drug trafficker
James T. Licavoli , Cleveland Mafia leader
Joseph Rosato , Lucchese crime family Capodecina , labor racketeer and drug trafficker
Ettore Zappi (aka Tony Russo), Gambino crime family Capo, Anthony Anastasio bodyguard, and New York (Brooklyn ) racketeer
Frank Tieri , Genovese crime family Don.
Irving Vine - associate of Edward Vogel and Ralph Pierce
February 4 - Frankie Carbo , boxing promoter and Murder, Inc. member
September 22 - Joseph Valachi , Genovese crime family soldier, and government informant.
Deaths
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