Showing posts with label Purple Gang. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Purple Gang. Show all posts
Saturday, June 18, 2022

The Elusive Purple Gang--Radio Free Flint Podcast

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  The Elusive Purple Gang recounts Detroit's violent Prohibition gang and their meteoric rise and fall.  This Radio Free Flint podcas...
Monday, April 4, 2022

Myron "Mikey" Selik--Junior Purple Gang Alumnus

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Myron "Mikey" Selik and Harry "H.F." Fleisher in Jackson Prison. Myron "Mikey" Selik was born November 16, 191...
Sunday, September 8, 2019

The Fleisher Brothers--Harry and Sam: Crime Doesn't Pay (Part 2 of 2)

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Harry Fleisher 1920 (seventeen years old) Harry Fleisher started his professional criminal career in 1920 as a driver and strong-arm ...
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Sunday, May 5, 2019

The Purple Gang Tied Up In Chains

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Purple Gang perp walk. A decisive federal arrest of Purple Gang members marked a change in the public attitude towards Detroit's m...
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Saturday, December 29, 2018

Detroit's Numbers Racket

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Today's state run lotteries are first cousins to the illegal policy rackets of the early twentieth century-- known by players a...
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Friday, December 14, 2018

The Elusive Purple Gang

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Purple Gang lineup in 13th Precinct--the Canfield Street station. Since May 2018, I've been researching Detroit's Prohibition-...
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Monday, November 12, 2018

Prohibition Loophole--Wine Bricks

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Wine Brick Once Prohibition became law on January 16, 1920, many wine producers in California got out of the wine business and convert...
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Sunday, March 4, 2018

The Rise and Fall of Detroit's Purple Gang

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Purple Gang roundup by Detroit police: Sam Axler, Eddie Fletcher, Sam Goldfarb, Phil Keywell, Abe Zussman, Willie Lake, Harry Fleisher, J...
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