Hyman Amberg
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Herman "Hyman" Amberg (c. 1902 - November 3, 1926) was a New York mobster who, with his brothers Joseph and Louis "Pretty" Amberg, formed one of the prominent criminal gangs during Prohibition.
Often acting as an enforcer for the Ambergs, Hyman was arrested for the murder of a local jeweler in 1926. While awaiting trial in the infamous Tombs Prison, he and another prisoner attempted to escape after acquiring guns on November 3, 1926. However, they made it only as far as the prison wall before trapped by prison guards. Rather than surrender to prison authorities, Amberg and the second prisoner chose to commit suicide.
