Dapper Jack 'Legs' Diamond taken minutes after he was arrested by the German authorities. (Times Union archive) Troy The Collar City was Mob City in the Prohibition era, and no bootlegger was a bigger ...

On May 1, 1931, Jack “Legs” Diamond was in an Albany hospital after being shot in a speakeasy in the Greene County town of Acra. It was the fourth time the notorious gangster-bootlegger had been shot.

GREENWICH — A local farmer was kidnapped Wednesday and taken to Saratoga Springs, where one of America’s most notorious criminals tortured and threatened to lynch him. Fortunately, it was all in fun ...

In the small town of Cairo, New York bootleggers, including infamous Irish American gangster Jack "Legs" Diamond, are being celebrated. According to local reports Diamond one of the most popular of ...

Pulitzer Prize-winner William Kennedy retells Prohibition era saga of Jack 'Legs' Diamond. The story of Albany's most notorious gangster is recounted by Albany's most notable storyteller, Pulitzer ...

The maximum annoyance which New York City’s police have caused Jack (“Legs”) Diamond, whom the city’s newspapers have made the local counterpart of Chicago’s Capone, is one conviction out of 22 ...

The nearest New York counterpart to what the Chicago newspapers have made of (“Scarface”) Al Capone, is the New York newspapers’ slim, pasty-faced Jack (“Legs”) Diamond, gangster, gunman and ...

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