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	Hymie Weiss - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Earl "Hymie" Weiss (1898 - October 11, 1926) was a Chicago mobster and rival of Al Capone.
		Weiss was born in Chicago to a Polish Catholic emigrant family as Earl Wojciechowski, the family having changed their last name upon immigrating to the United States in the early 1900s (he earned the nickname "Hymie" only later in his career).
		Hymie Weiss began engaging in petty crime in his teens before ultimately befriending Chicago mobster Dion O'Banion.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hymie_Weiss (370 words)

	AMERICAN ORGANIZED CRIME: Hymie Weiss
		Earl "Hymie" Weiss was the Dean O'Banion's closest friend during the Prohibition, and the task of avanging O'Banion's death fell on his shoulders.
		Hymie Weiss became the new leader of the Northsiders and set out to avenge the death of his old boss.
		Weiss (armed with a shotgun) and Moran (with his.45 calibre pistol) leapt from the limo and opened fire on Torrio, hitting him in the chest, neck, right arm and groin.
	www.mobsters.8m.com /weiss.htm (2424 words)

	Gangland.net - Home (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Hymie Weiss was born Earl Wajciechowski in his homeland of Poland in 1898.
		Weiss, Schemer Drucci, and "Bugs" Moran tailed Capone's limousine to a restaurant at 55th Street and State where they opened up with their guns and managed to get 26 hits on the limo.
		Weiss arrived dead at the hospital and the coroner counted 10 bullets in his body.
	www.gangland.net.cob-web.org:8888 /weiss.htm (581 words)

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		Hymie Weiss appears to be about 20 years old in these shots, which would mean the photos, were taken in 1918.
		Hymie dominated so that they doubled their influence and income his own gang which was called the Northsiders gang.
		Hymie Weiss, wife of reputed gangster Hymie Weiss, wearing a fur coat, sitting on a wooden desk in a court room or a room in a house.
	mason.gmu.edu /~dscarbo1/gang (595 words)

	Hymie Weiss
		Weiss was born in Poland and brought to the U.S. age of three.
		Weiss was more cool headed than his boss and would reportedly attempt to calm O'banion down during one of the bosse's outbursts.
		Weiss was still angered about the murder of his boss O'banion and demanded that the trigger men be killed.
	www.geocities.com /hollywood/academy/5854/weiss2.htm (251 words)

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		Weiss became the Boss of "The North Siders" after O'Banion was murdered.
		Weiss made an attempt to murder Capone, but was unsucessful.
		Weiss and his men went by "The Hawthorn Inn" in Cicero and fired over 1,000 rounds on September 20, 1926.
	members.tripod.com /~capone77/weiss.html (223 words)

	Timelines - This Day in Alternate History
		Hymie Weiss, Dion O'Banion's closest friend and his co-conspirator in the murder of Al Capone, is arrested at a boarding house in Oklahoma after one of its guests recognizes him from a photo accompanying a newspaper article about O'Banion's trial.
		Weiss, who along with O'Banion fled Chicago shortly after Bugs Moran was arrested and has been on the run from the law for over a year prior to his capture, is subsequently extradited back to Illinois to stand trial on conspiracy charges.
		Hymie Weiss, having been found guilty on conspiracy to murder and as an accessory before and after the fact in the assassination of Al Capone, is sentenced to thirty years in prison.
	www.othertimelines.com /testing/editTimeline.php?timelineID=78 (1444 words)

	Hymie Weiss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Weiss became buddies with Dion O'Banion in his teens and the two of them together performed numerous burglaries, car thefts and jewel robberies.
		Weiss gave orders to Bugs Moran and Bugs had a whole cavalcade of cars drive past the Inn and fire over 1000 rounds into the building on September 20th, 1926.
		Weiss was DOA at the hospital and the coroner counter 10 bullets in his body.
	www.gambino.com /bio/hymieweiss.htm (612 words)

	Whacked By the Good Guys by Allan May
		Barko explained that he was just a spectator at the scene and ran because he "didn’t want to be hit by a stray bullet." Although a writ of habeas corpus was applied for to release Drucci, a judge decided to hold him for questioning by detectives.
		On the afternoon of Sept. 20, Weiss called out all the troops for an all-out assault on Capone at the Hawthorne Inn restaurant.* The assault failed and the only gangster wounded was Louis Barko, who was hit in the right shoulder.
		On Oct. 11, an ambush put an end to Hymie Weiss in front of the Holy Name Cathedral.* During the ambush, another man was killed and three were wounded.
	crimemagazine.com /whacked.htm (2030 words)

	Rick Porrello's - AmericanMafia.com - Allan May, Organized Crime Historian and Journalist
		On May 25, Weiss, Drucci and Moran were believed to be the gunmen who shotgunned Angelo Genna to death.
		On the afternoon of September 20, Weiss called out all the troops for an all-out assault on Capone at the Hawthorne Inn restaurant.* The assault failed and the only gangster wounded, unbelievably, was Louis Barko, who was hit in the right shoulder.
		On October 11, a Capone planned ambush put an end to Hymie Weiss in front of the Holy Name Cathedral.* During the ambush, another man was killed and three were wounded.
	www.americanmafia.com /Allan_May_3-22-99.html (2053 words)

	Timelines - This Day in Alternate History
		Event Description: Hymie Weiss, Dion O'Banion's closest friend and his co-conspirator in the murder of Al Capone, is arrested at a boarding house in Oklahoma after one of its guests recognizes him from a photo accompanying a newspaper article about O'Banion's trial.
		Event Description: Hymie Weiss is indicted on charges of conspiracy to murder and unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.
		Event Description: Hymie Weiss, having been found guilty on conspiracy to murder and as an accessory before and after the fact in the assassination of Al Capone, is sentenced to thirty years in prison.
	www.othertimelines.com /testing/viewtimeline.php?timelineID=78 (1521 words)

	Hymie Weiss
		Weiss would agree to peace talks if Capone would hand over Anselmi and Scalisi for the death of his beloved friend O'Banion.Lombardo phones Capone, but Capone states he wouldn't do that to a yellow dog.Weiss storms out of the room.
		Hymie Weiss had been suffering of severe migraines due to a brain disorder many years before he died,which led to believe that he knew that he wasn't going to live to be very old,either by this disease or gangland guns.
		Hymie Weiss' signed prayer book that was on him the day he died.
	www.myalcaponemuseum.com /id89.htm (850 words)

	George 'Bugs' Moran: His War With Al Capone
		Weiss and Drucci were passing the Standard Oil Building en route to political boss Morris Eller's office to make a payoff when Barko and company opened fire from a car.
		Weiss was blunt: He and Moran would lay down arms on one condition and one condition only — that Capone turn over to them the two hitmen Scalise and Anselmi who had killed O'Banion.
		That morning, October 11, 1926, Weiss had been observing trial proceedings for Joe Saltis, a South Side gangster accused of murder; it was later revealed that Weiss and Moran were pulling their influence with the courts to have him acquitted in return for his alliance against the Capone faction.
	www.crimelibrary.com /gangsters_outlaws/mob_bosses/moran/chicago_4.html (3319 words)

	Gangland.net - Home
		Weiss then tried a hit on Torrio in a similar manner and bungled that too.
		Weiss made a second attempt on Torrio and was a little more successful this time.
		Three weeks after that Hawthorne Inn hit, Weiss was killed by Capone hit men.
	www.gangland.net /weiss.htm (581 words)

	The Golden Years of the Capone Era
		Weiss struck at Capone by sending car after car down the street passed a restaurant where Capone was eating.
		Weiss refused any type of agreement and was gunned down by Capone's gang.
		The threats of O'Banion, the Gennas, and Hymie Weiss were removed and Capone felt he could relax and enjoy this newfound peace.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/organized_crime/21075/2 (565 words)

	The Solitaires History Page
		Although the old story that Weiss had begun the label in the Triboro Theater cloak room may be an exaggeration, he apparently had learned enough to minimize operating costs and turn a profit without having records appear on the national charts.
		After they left the label, Weiss gave the song to Herman Curtis Dunham to record at a solo session held in January of 1956 while he was on leave from the Army.
		In his liner notes for the 1985 Murray Hill Solitaires four LP retrospective, Weiss wrote that "The Solitaires were probably the finest exponent of rhythm and blues music done with finesse and were far ahead of their time.
	lulusko.www7.50megs.com /oldtown/solitaires2.html (9992 words)

	hymieweiss (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Weiss, Drucci, and Moran continued to not only emulate O'Banion's brashness and fortitude, but also the carelessness he demonstrated toward his personal safety and the security of his operations.
		Dean O'Banion and Hymie Weiss were acutely aware of the Genna brothers' encroachments into Northside territory, forcing bar, tavern, and speakeasy owners to buy cheap Genna alcohol.
		Weiss' most immediate preparations for battle included efforts at consolidation with independent and disaffected gangs around the city.
	hymieweiss.com.cob-web.org:8888 /1924--%20Prelude.htm (1586 words)

	Hymie Weiss - Wikipedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Weiss war eine hagere Person mit scharfen Gesichtszügen und einem stechenden Blick.
		Als Weiss, Patrick Murray, ein Helfer, möglicherweise auch Weiss' Leibwächter, der Chauffeur Sam Peller und Anwalt William O'Brien am 11.
		Mit zehn Treffern wurde Weiss ins Krankenhaus gebracht, wo er kurz darauf starb, auch Murray überlebte nicht.
	de.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Hymie_Weiss (351 words)

	hymieweiss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Weiss was seemingly without fear, and, if the word can be used to describe what was otherwise criminal behavior, he was also courageous.
		During his short life, Weiss was both hunter and hunted, engaging in open gun battles on the streets of Chicago in a two front gang war with the Torrio/Capone outfit and with Torrio's erstwhile allies, the deadly Sicilian Genna brothers.
		They were also devoutly religious and loyal to each other and to the men who comprised their Northside gang-- a loyalty so strong it took the St. Valentine's Day massacre to finally snuff it out.
	www.hymieweiss.com (476 words)

	AMERICAN ORGANIZED CRIME: Dean O'Banion
		During the Prohibition, he was the leader of the Northsiders, a gang who controlled the beer trade in Chicago's Northside and included Dean's close friends; Hymie Weiss, Vincent Drucci and Bugs Moran.
		Dean was a dedicated student who spent much of his spare time on the roofs of Kilgubbin buildings, practicing his gunslinging skills on rats and pigeons with his friend Hymie Weiss.
		O'Banion, Weiss, Drucci and Moran were so successful promoting the Chicago Tribune for the Bloody Market Streeters that they were recruited by newspaper racketeer Moses Annenberg.
	www.mobsters.8m.com /obanion1.htm (1526 words)

	Weird Chicago - Mount Carmel Cemetery
		Angelo was shot-gunned down and killed by several members of Charles Dion O'Banion’s gang including Hymie Weiss, Schemer Drucci (both also interred within the cemetery), and Bugs Moran.
		With the death of Tony, the Genna gang was mostly broken, the remainder members fleeing Chicago.
		Weiss is also buried in a mausoleum in the cemetery.
	www.weirdca.com /chicago (1278 words)

	Al Capone,the brilliant brutal Chicago crime czar, and his family history - The Crime library
		"Hymie" Weiss's real name was Earl Wajciechowski, which he shortened to Weiss.
		The nickname "Hymie" stuck somehow and everyone assumed he was a Jewish gangster, when he was in fact a very devout Catholic.
		Weiss and Bugs Moran jumped out of a car and, thinking that Torrio was still in his automobile, fired wildly, wounding the chauffeur.
	www.crimelibrary.com /gangsters_outlaws/mob_bosses/capone/bugs_11.html (985 words)

	A Legacy in Crime: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Weiss was the same one from the Torrio assassination attempt, and was believed to be in on several attempts on Capone.
		Weiss still refused, and "Capone told the group about his piece offer to Weiss, and Weiss’s condition.
		Three days before the conference was scheduled to begin, Weiss met with a gangster who killed him.
	www2.carthage.edu /~jlohman/capone2.htm (6701 words)

	Earl "Hymie" Weiss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Earl Weiss ("Hymie") apparently succeeded Dion O'Banion as boss of the Irish-Jewish gang on Chicago's North Side in 1924.
		Weiss launched immediate attacks on Johnny Torrio and Al Capone.
		Neither achieved the desired result, though Torrio was severely wounded.
	www.onewal.com /w-weiss.html (89 words)

	Unusual Guide to Chicago - Tour, Explore the Near North (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It was here that he became friends with Bugs Moran, Hymie Weiss, and "The Schemer" Drucci.
		As Weiss and four of friends turned the corner in font of the Holy Name Cathedral, shotgun blasts exploded from a rooming house at 740 N. State, just north of Schofield's, spraying the street.
		Weiss was hit almost at the curb in front of the flower shop.
	members.aol.com /KSchessler/wizzk.html (2700 words)

	enemy
		Before the film opened Cagney wrote a letter to his mother, to warn her about his role.
		The famous grapefruit scene was taken from a real incident, in which a gangster named Hymie Weiss hit his girlfriend in the face with an omelette.
		Before the use of fake bullets Warners employed a former machine gunner in world war 1 to handle all the scenes involving guns.
	www.homestead.com /xbr98/enemy.html (165 words)

	Part III of Chicago's Unione Siciliana: 1920 — A Decade of Slaughter by Allan May
		Within a six- day period two attacks were orchestrated on Earl "Hymie" Weiss and Vincent "the Schemer" Drucci, both times in front of the Standard Oil Building on South Michigan Ave.
		Weiss demanded that Anselmi and Scalise be turned over to him for execution for the slaying of O'Bannion.
		One-time Capone ally Joe "Pollack" Saltis, who was fearful that his recent commitment to the Weiss camp in Chicago's ongoing beer war would make him Capone's next target, initiated this one.
	www.crimemagazine.com /chicago3.htm (4807 words)

	DIELAND: Al Capone - Capone Takes Over
		What they didn't appreciate at the time was the aftermath of Dion's death and what it meant to them personally.
		While the police scratched their heads over who killed O'Banion, Dion's friend "Hymie" Weiss knew exactly who was responsible and he vowed revenge.
		From that moment on, Capone and Torrio looked over their shoulders constantly for "Hymie" Weiss and his another Dion associate, Bugs Moran.
	members.fortunecity.com /sosdie/mob/capone/caponetakes.htm (1958 words)

	Czar of Gangland
		Weiss and Moran tried a dozen times to get Capone, but failed.
		He'd always wanted payback for what Weiss, and Moran did to Torrio ever since the day Johnny was shot.
		He left for Florida, when his men carried out his mission.
	www.fcusd.k12.ca.us /chsweb/Webstaff/Al_Capone/czar_of_gangland.htm (1709 words)

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