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Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-06-24 | Page 4 | In New York

Type issue
Date 1933-06-24
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Rights No Copyright - United States (NoC-US)
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Article Title In New York
Type article
Date 1933-06-24
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Page 4
OCR Text I IN NEW NEWYORK YORK New Yorks York's Owney Madden has been een called the of them hem all and has been credited with illicit interests even more extensive and varied than those of ot Chicago's Al Capone Sing Sing pr prisons prison's gates soon I will open oren to return Madden t to the metropolis where he hero ro rose e to netherworld nether world dominance Here is the story of that r rise e By PAUL HARRISON NEA Service Writer NEW YORK June 24 Having 24 Having been beena a very good bo boy for fo nearly a year now Owney Madden is going to be allowed to leave nasty old Sing Sing and come back to Manhattan Many of his little friends are arc expected to greet him joyfully for they are sure that hat Owney always the leader of his gang has thought up some dandy new games Years and years years- ago Owney was the chief of a club called the Gophers and led his valiant little band in man many manya a boyish encounter against rival organizations or or- the the Hudson Dusters and the Car Barn gang Owney always was sorry when one of his friends got killed in this strenuous he ic would cheer up everybody by qU quickly suggesting a game of ot cops and robbers He was very skillful at this and not once was he tagged by a policeman while looting a t freight eight A dL- dL VI U. d U U A. Always an ingenious youth o th Owney thought up a lot of other pastimes for his followers One game was called drunk rolling in which the boys would set upon tipsy fellows on the streets taking their wallets so that they could not buy any any more liquor Another game was vas called reach for the the- the Some of the youngsters would go into a cigar store for instance instance in in- stance and say to the proprietor Reach for the ceiling If It he didn't raise his liLs hands quickly the oth other r players would go bang bang-bang-bang grab something out of ot the cash register register regis regis- ter and then run very fast back to their home base S SS Sometimes nes as Owney grew older the police would come around and ask him what he knew about this or that affair But Own Owney y never knew anything about such matters although although al al- al though he got to know a great many fine policemen Several times too he was was was' actually arrested But whenever whenever when when- ever this happened some men who vho called themselves bondsmen would come and sign some papers and a nice magistrate would let Owney go back to his pigeon raising Owney was wasa a great fancier ancier of ot rare birds and most of his were trained to lure unhappy unhappy un un- un happy pigeons away from other cotes Owney did not like stool pigeons though and he was completely distraught distraught dis dis- dis when he heard that one of his hL former chums Little Patsy Doyle had been saying mean things about him Some of his other friends decided decided de de- de to punish Little Patsy for tor the slight so they called him out of a pleasant dancing party one night and filled him full of lead Owney Madden who now was known as Owney the Killer happened hap to be near by and he was arrested arrested ar rested for the murder A man called the prosecutor claimed that Owney had ordered his friends to discipline Little Patsy and he was WM found guilty of ot manslaughter When the judge told Own Owney y he roust must go to prison for from ten to twenty years he also said that Owney was very lucky not to have to sit on the hot hota seat seaL a 55 S That was in 1915 Owney was a af ai f i model prisoner though and he got out on parole alter after eight years As Ashe Ashe Astie he tie left for New York he said I have haven been n arrested times for lor crimes I Idid Idid Idid did commit but I was convicted for fora a job ob I had nothing to do with You cant can't get all the breaks though And now Im I'm going to go straight He went straight straight to to his old haunts He found his friends anxiously waiting waiting wait wait- ing for him to suggest some new games In prison Owrie Owney had heard about places called speakeasies and also about various kinds of rackets So he decided to go into business his decision being ing influenced somewhat by the fact that be had to report regularly regu laxly to the parole board Owney and his friends went into the business of selling protection For instance they would go to a laundry and say We are afraid that some acid is going to find its way into int your washing tanks unless you ou pay us to protect you from the scoundrels who would do such a thing So Soth the laundry laundry laun laun- dry would pay par and so would hundreds hun hun- of other laundries in the city And when Owney went vent to see the parole board he would Sl say Im doing do ing fine now I 1 am ant working for a laundry You just call caU up Sos and laundry and ask them if Im I'm not on the payroll Pretty soon Owney noticed that the night clubs dubs seemed med to be thriving so he went into the night club dub business busine At least that is what many people including government investigators believed but they never found Owney's name name on on n the books when they got around to raiding and padlocking padlocking pad pad- locking such places The manufacture and distribution of b beer r and spirits had a certain fascination fas fas- fas about it n and in ma ina a short time Owney was alleged to be the kingpin of the various liquor rackets Even now can walk about the eft city with certain wise men who will say Own Owney's ys y's brewery And that's Owney's brewery And Owney has hasa a big slice of that brewery Now it jt may be that the parole board heard rumors of ot these operations opera but there was nothing much to tobe tobe tobe be done about it If Owney had frequented frequented frequented fre fre- drinking drinkin places and personally personally person person- ally conducted himself in a reprehensible sible manner it was within the boards board's d discretion to revoke his parole pa role and send him back to prison Owney however having already been shot four times kept very much to him himself eU S l S SAs far his business was As as con can corned though there W was UI no slat state enforcement law So New York officials cUb oUi dais could find nothing unbecoming in his conduct if he merely manufactured manufactured manufactured and sold old liquor for other citi citi- zens zeDS When Owney appeared before the parole board he would report that he was engaged in the processing of cereals Something to do with malt and corn and rye no doubt Finally somebody thou thought ht to make an ari actual investigation instead of 01 simply simply sim sim- ply Owney's own statements And what do you ou think they found They found that Mr Madden wasn't engaged in any legitimate business at all So the parole board sent him back to prison for tor telling them a false fake hood For nearly a year he lie has worked hard in the Sing Sing garden and greenhouses He loves love flowers lowers having hav hay haying ling ing an aversion averdon only for lilies And Arid now they are going to let him come comeback comeback comeback back to lo his hu pals in New York who say 1 th that t Owney is very anxious to touY try uY this new 32 beer I
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