1925 | Crime
Crime
"Pretty Boy" Floyd begins a 9-year career in which he will rob more than 30 midwestern banks and kill 10 people. Charles Arthur Floyd, 18, robs a local post office of $350 in pennies at St. Louis.
Al Capone takes over as boss of Chicago bootlegging from racketeer Johnny Torrio, who retires after sustaining gunshot wounds (see 1924). A lieutenant of Torrio's since their Brooklyn days, the scar-faced Capone soon controls not only bootlegging but also gambling, prostitution, and the Chicago dance-hall business, while his agents on the Canadian border and in the Caribbean help him grow rich by smuggling huge quantities of whiskey and rum into the United States (see 1927).
Izzy and Moe lose their jobs as Prohibition agents after making 4,392 arrests in just over 5 years with a 95 percent record of convictions. Isadore Einstein and Moe Smith are both in their mid-forties, weigh more than 225 pounds each although neither is taller than five feet seven; they have antagonized their superiors by getting too much personal publicity for their ingenious and successful, if undignified, stratagems for apprehending violators of the Prohibition law.