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252:"Droper's Slayer Gets Twenty Years – Judge Talley Declares Jury Should Have Sent Gangster to Electric Chair – Sees Incentive to Crime – Court Contrasts 14,640 Homicides in America in 1922 Against 17 in London"
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137:Louis "Lepke" Buchalter
36:Louis Cohen (cricketer)
32:Louis Cohen (conductor)
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325:The Mafia Encyclopedia
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311:The Gangs of New York
118:Mount Hebron Cemetery
726:Luciano crime family
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