1924 in organized crime

Events

Peter Guardalabene is replaced by Joseph Amato as head of the Milwaukee crime family.
Thomas Joseph McGinty, a Cleveland bootlegger and fight promoter, is indicted with two other family members by federal grand jury and charged with operating "a gigantic wholesale and retail conspiracy" through McGinty's saloon on West 25th Street. Although hiding out for several days, he eventually turned himself in and was convicted after pleading not guilty. After serving eighteen months at Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, he resumes his bootlegging activities.
Walter O'Donnell, leader of the Westside O'Donnells, is charged with the murder of Alfred Deckman but is later acquitted.
Walter Stevens, a long-time Chicago gangster and labor slugger credited with the deaths of over 60 men, retires as a gunman for the Torrio-Capone organization where he lives peacefully until his death in 1939.
Joseph Bonanno, future founder of the Bonanno crime family, arrives in New York from Sicily.
A gang war between the On Leong and Hip Sing Tongs begins after several members of the On Leongs defect to the Hip Sings with a large amount of money.
April 1 - Frank Capone, brother of Al Capone, is killed by police during the fighting which broke out while leading around 200 gunmen into Cicero during the 1924 Chicago Elections in support of Mafia backed Republican politicians.
September 7 - Southside O'Donnell gunman Jerry O'Connor is killed by Frank McErlane.
November 10 - North Side Gang leader Dean O'Banion is killed when three unidentified men enter his flower shop and shoot him several times. This begins a five year gang war between the North Side Gang, under Hymie Weiss, against Al Capone's Chicago Outfit that would end with the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, in 1929.

Births

April 2 - Vito Ciancimino, Sicilian mobster and Palermo mayor
April 21 - Philip Testa "The Chicken Man", Philadelphia crime family boss
May 12 - Michele Greco "The Pope", Sicilian mafia boss

Deaths

Alfred Deckman, Westside O'Donnell associate
April 1 - Frank Capone, Chicago Outfit member
September 7 - Jerry O'Connor, Southside O'Donnell gunman
November 10 - Dean O'Banion, North Side Gang leader