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    Owen Vincent "Owney" Madden (December 18, 1891 – April 24, 1965) was an American gangster who was a leading underworld figure in New York during Prohibition...
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  • Owney may refer to: People Owney Madden (1891–1965) New York gangster Owney Geoghegan (1840–1885) boxer Places in Ireland Owney and Arra, County Tipperary...
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  • where most of the performers are black and the customers are white. Owney Madden, a mobster, owns the club and runs it with his right-hand man, Frenchy...
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  • victims was gambler George "Big Frenchy" DeMange, a close associate of Owney Madden, boss of the Hell's Kitchen Irish Mob. According to one account, Coll...
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    of Harlem and opened an intimate supper club called the Club Deluxe. Owney Madden, a prominent bootlegger and gangster, took over the club after his release...
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    included Rocky the bartender in the play The Iceman Cometh (1976); gangster Owney Madden in Francis Coppola's The Cotton Club (1984); Gus Klein in Wolfgang Petersen's...
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  • death, going to New York's electric chair in July 1915. November 6 – Owney Madden is shot by several thugs while at a 52nd Street dance in New York City...
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    who counted among its members Goo Goo Knox, James "Biff" Ellison, and Owney Madden, born in England of Irish ancestry. Based in the Irish neighborhood of...
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  • Norman Kerr Meyer Lansky Frederic Richard Lees Lucky Luciano Sam Maceo Owney Madden Joseph Malins William McCoy Bugs Moran Carrie Nation Eliot Ness Roy Olmstead...
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  • Norman Kerr Meyer Lansky Frederic Richard Lees Lucky Luciano Sam Maceo Owney Madden Joseph Malins William McCoy Bugs Moran Carrie Nation Eliot Ness Roy Olmstead...
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