Vincent coll biography

Mad Dog Coll

American mobster during depression-era

This article is about the Country American mob hitman. For character films portraying him, see Very Dog Coll (disambiguation).

Mad Bitch Coll
Mugshot of Coll
Born	Uinseann Ó Colla (1908-07-20)July 20, 1908 Gweedore, County Donegal, Ulster, Ireland
Died	February 8, 1932(1932-02-08) (aged 23) New York City, U.S.
Resting place	Saint Raymond's Cemetery, Bronx
Nationality	Irish, American
Other names	"Mad Dog", "Mad Mick"
Occupation(s)	Mobster, hitman, kidnapper, bootlegger
Known for	Hitman transport Dutch Schultz and Prohibition-era bunch leader

Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll (born Uinseann Ó Colla, July 20, 1908 – February 8, 1932) was an Irish-American mob torpedo in the 1920s and mistimed 1930s in New York Faculty.

Coll gained notoriety for interpretation alleged accidental killing of a-okay young child during a crowd kidnap attempt.^[1]^[2]

Early years

Coll was original in Gweedore, an Irish-speaking regional, in County Donegal in Ulster, the northern province in Island.

He was related to nobleness notorious Curran family, and enthrone family emigrated to the U.S. the following year as control passengers on board the S/S Columbia, sailing from port outline Derry to the port deadly New York, April 3 relate to 12, 1909. Coll was straighten up distant relative of the preceding Northern IrelandAssemblywomanBríd Rodgers.

At deceive 12, Coll was first kink to a reform school.^[3] Rearguard being expelled from multiple Wide reform schools, he joined Prestige Gophers street gang. Run-ins stay alive the law were almost ineluctable. Vincent soon developed a designation for being a wild descendant of the streets. At get up 16, he was arrested meant for carrying a gun, and offspring the age of 23 appease had been arrested a twelve times.

In the late Decennary, he started working as spruce up armed guard for the evil beer delivery trucks of Nation Schultz's mob.^[4]

Mob assassin and kidnapper

Coll's ruthlessness made him a treasured enforcer to Schultz at chief. As Schultz's criminal empire grew in power during the Decade, he employed Coll as conclusion assassin.

At age 19 Coll was charged with the regicide of Anthony Borello, the hotel-keeper of a speakeasy, and Procession Smith, a dance hall mine host. Coll allegedly murdered Borello due to he refused to sell Schultz's bootleg alcohol. The charges were eventually dismissed, and many harbour this to have been birthright to Schultz's influence.^[5] Schultz was not happy about Coll's exploits.

In 1929, without Schultz's honestly, Coll robbed a dairy block out the Bronx of $17,000.^[5] Soil and his gang posed thanks to armed guards to gain appeal to the cashier's room. Schultz later confronted Coll about depiction robbery, but rather than use apologetic, Coll demanded to distrust an equal partner; Schultz declined.

By January 1930, Coll difficult to understand formed his own gang take was engaged in a penetrating war with Schultz. One forged the earliest victims was Putz Coll, Vincent's older brother, who was shot dead on Possibly will 30, 1931, while driving business a Harlem street. Coll to sum up went into a rage farm animals grief and vengeance.

Over significance next three weeks he gunned down four of Schultz's soldiers. In all, around 20 troops body were killed in the bloodletting; the exact figure is arduous to pin down; New Dynasty was also in the middle of the vicious Castellammarese Battle at the same time. Well-found was mayhem on the streets of Manhattan, and the constabulary often had difficulty in determining which corpse belonged to which war.^{[citation needed]}

On June 2, Coll and his gang broke crash into a garage owned by Schultz and destroyed 120 vending machines and 10 trucks.

As the fighting continued, Vincent Coll and circlet gang killed approximately 20 dear Schultz's men.^[4] To finance her majesty new gang, Coll kidnapped competitor gangsters and held them mind ransom. He knew that honourableness victims would not report integrity kidnappings to police; they would have a hard time explaining to the Bureau of Citizen Revenue why the ransom big bucks had not been reported pass for income.

One of Coll's best-known victims was gambler George "Big Frenchy" DeMange, a close assort of Owney Madden, boss fine the Hell's KitchenIrish Mob. According to one account, Coll telephoned DeMange and asked to right with him. When DeMange entered at the meeting place, Coll kidnapped him at gunpoint. Misstep released DeMange 18 hours after after receiving a ransom payment.^[6]

Alleged child killing

On July 28, 1931, Coll allegedly participated in dialect trig kidnapping attempt that resulted respect the shooting death of uncut child.

Coll's target was criminal Joseph Rao, a Schultz erior who was lounging in leadership of a social club. Very many children were playing outside initiative apartment house. A large voyage car pulled up to depiction curb, and several men unclean shotguns and submachine guns eminence Rao and started shooting. Rao threw himself to the footway, and four young children were wounded in the attack.

Singular of them, five-year-old Michael Vengalli, later died at Beth Painter Hospital.^[5]^[7] After the Vengalli sting, New York City Mayor Lever Walker dubbed Coll a "mad dog".

On October 4, 1931, after an extensive manhunt, Different York police arrested Coll mass a hotel in the Borough.

He had dyed his put down black and grown a facial hair and was wearing horn-rimmed performance. He surrendered peacefully.^[5] During graceful police lineup, a defiant Coll said that he had anachronistic in Albany, New York, nurse the past several months take precedence refused to answer any irritate questions without an attorney present.^[3] On October 5, a remarkable jury in New York Gen indicted Coll for the Vengalli murder.^[8]

The Coll trial began get the picture December 1931.

He retained illustrious defense lawyer Samuel Leibowitz. Coll claimed that he was miles away from the shooting perspective and was being framed inured to his enemies. He added delay he would love to rupture the throat out of decency person who killed Vengalli.^[9] Illustriousness prosecution case soon fell unemotional. Their sole witness to decency shooting, George Brecht, admitted explanation the witness stand to accepting a criminal and mental volatile record, and to making resembling testimony in a previous manslaughter case in St Louis, Missouri.^[10] At the end of Dec, the judge issued a fated verdict of not guilty perform Coll.^[11]

Immediately after the Vengalli choice, a New York City law enforcement agency inspector told Coll that justness police would arrest him whenever he was spotted in In mint condition York City.

He was ere long rejailed for carrying a gun.^[12] When the inspector referred go on parade Coll as a baby pirate, Coll hotly replied, "I'm ham-fisted baby killer".^[11] Soon after culminate acquittal, Coll married Lottie Kreisberger, a fashion designer in Additional York.^[13]

Failed hit

In September 1931, in the middle of the killing of young Vengalli and his acquittal for think about it death, Coll was hired invitation Salvatore Maranzano, who had newly declared himself capo di tutti i capi, to murder Physicist "Lucky" Luciano, the new precise boss of the Mafia stock of the same name.^[14]Tommy Lucchese alerted Luciano that he was marked for death.^[14] Months before, Luciano had ended the Castellammarese War by ordering the homicide of his own boss, Patriarch Masseria, which left Maranzano introduce the most powerful boss featureless the Five Families.

Maranzano in a little while decided, however, that Luciano was a threat.^[14] On September 10, Maranzano summoned Luciano, Vito Genovese and Frank Costello to sovereignty office at the 230 Protected area Avenue in Manhattan. Certain ditch Maranzano planned to murder them, Luciano decided to act first.^[15] He sent four Jewish hitmen whose faces were unknown arrangement Maranzano and his enforcers.

They had been secured with grandeur aid of Luciano's close members belonging Meyer Lansky and Bugsy Siegel.^[16] Disguised as government agents, mirror image of the gangsters disarmed Maranzano's bodyguards. The other two, assisted by Lucchese, who went vanguard to point Maranzano out, stabbed the Sicilian boss multiple bygone and then finished him sweeping by shooting him.^[17]^[18]

According to honesty 1963 testimony of government viewer Joseph Valachi, Maranzano had paying Coll $25,000 for all troika murders in advance, but during the time that Coll arrived at Maranzano's business that same day intending revivify kill Luciano, Genovese, and Costello, he found Lucchese and depiction four Jewish hitmen fleeing position scene.

After learning from them that Maranzano was dead, Coll left the building.^[19]

Gangland death

Both Land Schultz and Owney Madden confidential put a $50,000 bounty confirm Vincent Coll's head. At sidle point, Schultz had actually walked into a Bronx police view and offered "a house focal Westchester" to whoever killed Coll.

On February 1, 1932, yoke or five gunmen invaded spruce up Bronx apartment which Coll was rumored to frequent and open fire with pistols and submachine guns. Three people (Coll ernal region Patsy Del Greco and Fiorio Basile and bystander Emily Tanzillo) were killed. Three others were wounded. Coll himself did bawl show up until 30 memorandum after the shooting.^[20]

A week afterward the Bronx shootings, at 12:30 am on February 8, Coll was using a phone booth bully a drug store at Ordinal Avenue and 23rd Street predicament Manhattan.

He was reportedly unadulterated to Madden, demanding $50,000 use up the gangster under the warning of kidnapping his brother-in-law. Disorder kept Coll on the vehement while it was traced. Several men in a dark car soon arrived at the medicine store. While one waited get the car, two others stepped out. One man waited exterior while the other walked soul the store.

The gunman great the cashier, "Keep cool, now", drew a Thompson submachine field guns from under his overcoat turf opened fire on Coll pointed the glass phone booth. Coll died instantly. The killers took off in their car. They were chased unsuccessfully up Ordinal Avenue by a foot rounds who had heard the gunshots and commandeered a passing but the car got away.^[21]

A total of 15 bullets were removed from Coll's body luck the morgue; more may own acquire passed through him.

Coll was buried next to his fellow-man Peter at Saint Raymond's Site in the Bronx. Dutch Schultz sent a floral wreath nail a banner with the go to see "From the boys".

Aftermath

Coll's killers were never identified. Dutch Schultz attorney Dixie Davis later alleged that gangster Bo Weinberg was the getaway driver of representation limousine.

Another suspect was procrastinate of Coll's own men, Prince Popke aka Fats McCarthy. Significance submachine gun that killed Coll was found a year closest in the possession of unadorned Hell's Kitchen gunman named "Tough" Tommy Protheroe, who used vitality during a 1933 saloon death. On May 16, 1935, Protheroe and his girlfriend Elizabeth Connors were shot and killed chunk unknown triggermen in Queens.^[22]

Dutch Schultz continued to operate his rackets for only a few statesman years.

On October 23, 1935, Schultz was killed at rendering Palace Chophouse in Newark, New-found Jersey.^[23] He was supposedly murdered on orders from Luciano extremity the new National Crime Bloc.

Coll's widow, Lottie, was delinquent of carrying a concealed instrument and sentenced to six months. She refused to leave censure following her parole because she feared the people who confidential killed her husband would along with murder her.^[24]

In 1935 Owney Creature, still under police scrutiny espousal the Coll killing, moved fulfil Arkansas, where he died patent 1965.^[25]

Portrayal

Film

Vincent Coll has been depicted by the following actors talk to the following films:

Television

Vincent Coll has been portrayed in integrity following TV shows:

Music

Vincent Coll has been portrayed in representation following songs:

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