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  The American Mafia - Abe Reles
Reles was a killer employed by Lepke Buchalter's "Murder Inc." unit of the national crime Syndicate.
Reles, held under police protection at the Half Moon Hotel on Coney Island, continued to sing about everything he knew relating to organized crime, and the Mafia Commission decided to end the song.
Early on Nov. 12, 1941, just as the state was set to begin its trial against Anastasia, Reles was found beneath his hotel room window - five stories beneath (his room was on the sixth floor, and he landed on a low roof of an adjoining structure).
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  Abe Reles   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Abe "Kid Twist" Reles (1907 - 12 November, 1941) was a Jewish-American mobster who was probably the most feared hitman in the stable of Murder, Inc, the enforcement arm of the National Crime Syndicate.
Abraham Reles, the son of Austrian immigrants, was born in the Brownsville neighbourhood of Brooklyn, New York.
Reles was buried in Old Mount Carmel Cemetery in the Glendale section of Queens, New York.
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 Abe Reles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Abraham Reles, the son of Austrian immigrants, was born in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, in New York City.
Reles became so adept at using the ice pick that many of his murder victims were thought to have died of a cerebral hemorrhage.
Reles reportedly got the nickname "Kid Twist" after an earlier vicious killer in Manhattan's Lower East Side; another theory behind the moniker was that it was the name of his favorite candy.
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 Abe Reles   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Brooklyn, with Lepke Buchalter and Abe Reles and Pep Strauss and Tick-Tock Tannenbaum...
Abe "Kid Twist" Reles (1907 - 12 November, 1941) was a Jewish American mobster who was probably the most feared hitman in the stable of Murder, Inc, the enforcement arm of the National Crime Syndicate.
Abraham Reles, the son of Austrian immigrants, was born in the Brownsville neighbourhood of Brooklyn, New York City.
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 Abe Reles   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Abe "Kid Twist" Reles (1907 - 12 November 1941) was a Jewish - American mobster who was probably the most fearedhitman in the stable of Murder, Inc., the enforcement arm of the National Crime Syndicate.
The information Reles disclosed on 16 May of that year on the murder of Brooklyn candy store owner Joseph Rosen was enough to send his boss, LouisBuchalter, to his fate in the Sing Sing death house.
Reles was buried in Old Mount Carmel Cemetery in the Glendale section of Queens, NewYork.
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 Abraham “Kid Twist” Reles (1907-1941)
Abraham Reles was born in a poverty stricken area of Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York, in 1907 to Jewish-Austrian immigrants.
Abe’s weapon of choice was an ice pick, which he became very adept at using.
During one such event, Abe was arrested, prosecuted and sentenced to a two-year sentence in an Upstate New York juvenile facility.
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 Encyclopedia: Abe Reles   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Queens is geographically the largest of the five boroughs of New York City in the United States, and the most ethnically diverse county in the U.S. It is coterminous with Queens County in the State of New York and is located on western Long Island.
Abe "Kid Twist" Reles (1907 - 12 November, 1941) was a Jew ish- American mobster who was probably the most feared hitman in the stable of Murder, Inc., the enforcement arm of the National Crime Syndicate.
Abe "Kid Twist" Reles (1907 - 12 November, 1941) was a Jewish - American mobster who was probably the most feared hitman in the stable of Murder, Inc., the enforcement arm of the National Crime Syndicate.
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 Abe Reles - Definition, explanation
Abe "Kid Twist" Reles (1907 – 12 November, 1941) was a Jewish American mobster who was probably the most feared hitman in the stable of Murder, Inc, the enforcement arm of the National Crime Syndicate.
Abraham Reles, the son of Austrian immigrants, was born in the Brownsville neighbourhood of Brooklyn, New York City.
The information Reles disclosed on 16 May of that year on the murder of Brooklyn candy store owner Joseph Rosen was enough to send his boss, Louis Buchalter, to his fate in the Sing Sing death house.
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 The Columnists.com has columns about entertainment, television, music, and screen classics
braham “Abe” Reles, the son of Jewish/Austrian immigrants, was born in New York in 1907.
Because Abe was a sure bet to hit the “sparky” chair at Sing Sing, he soon made a deal with District Attorney O’Dwyer and confessed to 70 killings on behalf of Murder, Inc. Reles was also to testify against the other gangsters as part of his deal.
While waiting to testify, Abe was held in protective custody and guarded around the clock by teams of policemen at the Half Moon Hotel in Coney Island, N.Y. On November 12, 1941, Abe jumped, fell, or was thrown out of a sixth floor window of the hotel.
www.thecolumnists.com /murcia/murcia30.html   (987 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Harry Maione
Maione and Abbandando helped Abe Reles and Martin Goldstein exact revenge on the Shapiro brothers (Meyer, Irving, and William) in 1931 for trying to kill the two Jewish hoods and for abducting and raping Reles' girlfriend and future wife.
When Abe Reles became an informant for the State in 1940, he implicated Maione in the horrific slaying of Rudnick.
Reles' information was enough for Maione to be sentenced to death for first-degree murder.
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 Murder, Inc. - Search.com
Abe Reles, the chief prosecution witness, testified that Feinstein was murdered on orders of Albert Anastasia since he supposedly “crossed” Vincent Mangano.
Reles’ mother-in-law also testified that Reles and Strauss had asked her for an ice-pick and clothesline earlier in the day, and while at the house, heard loud music masking a commotion in the living room.
Reles "fell" to his death from a room at the Half Moon Hotel in Coney Island on November 12, 1941, even though he was under police guard.
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 Kid Twist by Charles Mayo and Bob Freeman   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Abe Reles' life and ultimate fate are seen through the eyes of Jimmy "Irish" O'Connell, a young teenager who is taken in by Reles and treated as a kid brother.
This coming of age story of "Irish" and his relationship with Brooklyn gangster Abe Reles is, at once, compassionate and ruthless.
This novel of Abe "Kid Twist" Reles pulls no punches in its description of the crimes perpetrated by "Murder, Inc." and it attempts to rationalize the circumstances of his controversial death.
www.mgaudiobooks.com /bookstore/KidTwist.htm   (278 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Dutch Schultz   (Site not responding. Last check: )
With the extra strength, Schultz and Noey were ready to move on to bigger things and relocated their operation from the Bronx to Manhattan, placing them in direct competition with Schultz's former associate Jack Diamond.
Shortly after Noey's death, Jack Diamond's own best friend, Arnold Rothstein, was found murdered; newspapers speculated that Rothstein had welched on a deal he had made with another gangster, but talk amongst the underworld suggested that it was a revenge killing perpetrated by Schultz.
Abe Landau (December 25, 1898-October 24, 1935) was the chief henchman for New York gangster Dutch Schultz.
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 Abe Masahiro --  Encyclopædia Britannica
In 1845, when Abe Masahiro replaced Mizuno Tadakuni as head of the rou, there were various reactions against the Tempo reforms.
When some man came along who knew a little about the three R's—as the main subjects of reading, writing, and (a)'rithmetic were called—he might teach the boys and girls for a few weeks—usually in the winter when farm work was slack.
When Abe was 19 he got his first chance to see something of the “outside world.” James Gentry, the owner of the country store, hired him to take a flatboat of cargo to New Orleans, then a wealthy city of some 40,000 people.
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 KILL THE DUTCHMAN! by Paul Sann
Reles did six months for juvenile delinquency in 1920, when he was 13, and in the next two decades acquired a dossier that filled three police yellow sheets.
The gangster's 25-year-old wife, Rose, mother of his five-year-old son, dropped in at the District Attorney's office and announced that "my husband wants an interview with the law." Taken to Turkus, who was chief of the Homicide Division, she said she had to see Mr.
Reles went on to say that the Bug told him that Mendy Weiss and Piggy, the forever mysterious wheelman borrowed from Willie (Willie Moore) Moretti's gang in Jersey, ran off after the shootings.
www.killthedutchman.net /chapter_XXII.htm   (4570 words)

  
 Epic saga of the Genovese Crime Family - The Crime library
When Abe "Kid Twist" Reles, one of Murder Inc.'s top executioners, started cooperating with authorities, Costello is said to have found out through his police sources where Reles was being kept, the Half Moon Hotel in
Despite a cadre of detectives guarding Reles, someone managed to get into his room and push him out a window to his death.
The details of the murder remain a mystery, but all those involved at the time agree that it was Costello who pulled the strings to make it happen.
www.crimelibrary.com /gangsters_outlaws/family_epics/genovese1/4.html   (800 words)

  
 Sean Maher's Quality Control: Advance Review: BROWNSVILLE
One scene in particular is captivating: young hitman Abe Reles is, essentially, being drafted by Buchalter.
He opens the door to walk in, and the side of the door forms an artificial panel gutter between Abe’s hesitant face and the darkness on the other side, the fl unknown inside the office.
Abe wisely sits in the chair with his mouth shut.
seanmaher.blogspot.com /2005/11/advance-review-brownsville.html   (552 words)

  
 ABE
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 Comic Book Resources - CBR News: "Brownsville" - Kleid & Allen Talk About The Toughest Gangsters You've Never Met
"Abe Reles was a pug of a guy from Brooklyn who fought his way up from the corners, killing or edging out anyone who got in his way.
Reles was built for killing and the Combination - a common name for the (Jewish and Italian) Five Families (that had combined into one powerful unit) - used him for that.
Allie and Abe do evil, terrible things during the course of 'Brownsville,' but their character and motives are portrayed in a way that you realize these are family men, husbands, sons, lovers and humans just in the way that you and I are.
www.comicbookresources.com /news/newsitem.cgi?id=6425   (3866 words)

  
 Murder, Inc. : Murder Inc.
In 1940’s Murder Inc employee Harry Rudolph[?] was framed for murder and sentenced to Riker’s Island, He decided to talk to district attorney Burton B. Turkus[?].
When Reles and Maffetore learned that they had became the next targets lest they talk, they became informants.
Reles fell to his death from a guarded hotel room in Half Moon Hotel[?] in Coney Island in November 12 1941.
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 Murder Inc.: Jewish Gangsters in America
Reles was one of the most trustable men in Murder Inc. It was against his principals to rat on anybody.
Reles kept himself entertained by playing bad practical jokes on his roomies and listening to the radio.
Abe Reles was found on the ground with a smirk on his face.
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 Irving Shapiro books ; 0823024547 Misspelled: irving shapiro irfing shabiro shapior riving shaprio sahpiro rving iving ...
Abe "Kid Twist" Reles (1907 - 12 November, 1941) was a Jewish-American mobster who was probably the most feared hitman in the stable of Murder, Inc., the enforcement arm of the National Crime Syndicate.Abraham Reles, the son of Austrian immigrants, was born in the Brownsville neighbourhood of Brooklyn, New York.
To further add insult to injury, Meyer Shapiro abducted Reles girlfriend (who was walking down the street) and dragged her out to an open field, where he beat and raped her repeatedly."Kid Twist" was hot for revenge.
The Reles gang had buried him alive.In 1940, Reles was arrested on the orders of Kings County District Attorney William O'Dwyer and implicated in a number of killings.
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 Sore Winner
The key ingredient in these trials was the testimony of Abe Reles, who was a member of a loose syndicate involved in the garment center rackets.
Reles told tales of multiple murders, complete with all the gory details that clearly captivated radio listeners and newspaper readers.
Reles jumped or fell or was pushed out the window of his sixth story room at the Half Moon Hotel in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn.
www.ganglandnews.com /column51.htm   (1279 words)

  
 Albert Anastasia - Murder Inc. FBI Files
Reles cooperated with the legal authorities to receive immunity instead of the electric hair.
On November 12, 1941, while in the protection of six police officers, Reles mysteriously fell to his death from a window of the Half Moon Hotel in Coney Island.
Contains information on the FURDRESS investigation into racketeering in the New York garment industry, the Bureau's recommendation that Reles receive immunity in exchange for testimony, and the number of cases he could be called on to give testimony.
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 Murder Incorperated
Once a lieutenant in Murder Inc., Reles was charged with murder by police in 1940.
He feared other mobsters who were behind bars would sell out first, so he started singing his lungs out.
Reles went out the window of the Half Moon Hotel in Coney Island under mysterious circumstances.
www.gambino.com /bio/murderinc.htm   (676 words)

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