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Zweifach was first arrested on a charge of grand larceny in June 1899 on the suspicion of stealing a bicycle. When asked his occupation by the judge, Zweifach quipped, "Bicycles". Max pleaded guilty and was let off with a fine. Zweifach soon graduated into more serious offenses. Zweifach's right-hand
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In the late afternoon of May 14, 1908, Kid Twist and
Cyclone Louie repaired to Coney Island to watch Carroll Terry's show at the Imperial. Afterwards, she hooked Louie up with a fellow dancer named Mabel Leon, and the two couples went to a nearby cafe on Oceanic Walk for dinner. The quartet left the
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Zweifach also began distributing his own brand of celery tonic to shopkeepers in his territory. The drink, packaged in bottles that bore his picture, was muscled in at exorbitant prices. Any store owner who refused to carry Kid Twist's celery tonic had his business trashed, or worse. Kid Twist also
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Kid Twist concocted a scheme to bilk the New York
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Greenwich he was now out completely, and that another gangster named The Nailer would take the other half of the game. Greenwich barricaded the doors of his establishment and dared the Kid Twist gang to get him. On May 31, 1907, police interrupted an armed standoff
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cafe around 8pm and began walking down the avenue. Pioggi shot the two gangsters. Kid Twist was fatally struck once while
Cyclone Louie was shot six times. Both men collapsed dead into the doorway of the South Brooklyn Hotel. Terry was hit in the hip.
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argument. Fitzpatrick, realizing he was about to be hit, rushed out of the place. One of Twist's men, Harris Stahl, gave chase and shot him to death. Stahl would be acquitted of
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on March 14, 1884, to Austrian-Jewish father Adolf and Italian mother Hanna. With his family, he emigrated to New York in 1886 to escape the antisemitic riots, settling right below the
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put the squeeze on illegal gambling games in his neighborhood. A case in point involved a Five Points gangster named Charles Greenwich, aka The Bottler, who operated a profitable
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