Buchalter, standing in court during sentencing, 1941. Louis Buchalter (February 6, 1897 - March 4, 1944) was an American mobster. In the early 1930s, he created an effective process for performing contract killings for Cosa Nostra (Sicilian Mafia) mobster
Buchalter, standing in court during sentencing, 1941. Louis Buchalter (February 6, 1897 - March 4, 1944) was an American mobster. In the early 1930s, he created an effective process for performing contract killings for Cosa Nostra (Sicilian Mafia) mobsters; it had no name, but the press 10 years later called it Murder, Inc. In 1936, Buchalter was convicted of violating federal anti-trust laws in the rabbit-skin fur industry in New York. While out on bail he disappeared. In 1937, still a fugitive, he was indicted in federal court on conspiracy to smuggle heroin into the United States. In 1939, he surrendered to FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover in front of a Manhattan hotel. After he was convicted on the federal narcotics trafficking charges, federal authorities turned him over to New York State for trial on labor extortion charges. In 1940, he was sentenced to 30 years to life in state prison on those charges, but was sent to Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary to serve his federal sentence of 14 years for narcotics trafficking. He was then was indicted on murder charges in for the killing of Joseph Rosen, a Brooklyn candy store owner. The jury found him guilty of first degree murder and he was sentenced to death along with his lieutenants Emanuel Weiss and Louis Capone. On March 4, 1944, Louis Buchalter, aged 47, was executed in the electric chair in Sing Sing. He had no final words. He was the only major mob boss to receive the death penalty. Photographed by Edward Lynch of the New York World-Telegram & Sun Newspaper, December 2, 1941.
Size: 4500px × 3075px
Photo credit: © Photo Researchers / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: &, -, 1941, 20th, al, america, american, bootlegger, buchalter, bw, century, chair, crime, criminal, death, degree, drug, edward, electric, extortionist, famous, figure, gangster, historic, historical, history, hitman, important, infamous, killer, labor, lepke, louis, lynch, male, man, men, mobster, murder, murderer, newspaper, notable, ouis, people, person, personalities, personality, racketeer, sentence, states, sun, trafficker, united, usa, world-telegram, york
