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Egan's Rats was an American organized crime gang that exercised considerable power in St. Louis, Missouri, from 1890 to 1924. Its 35 years of criminal activity included bootlegging, labor slugging, voter intimidation, armed robbery, and murder. Although predominantly Irish-American, Egan's Rats did include a few Italian-Americans and some Jewish immigrants, most notably Max "Big Maxie" Greenberg.

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rdfs:label	Egan's Rats (en)
rdfs:comment	Egan's Rats was an American organized crime gang that exercised considerable power in St. Louis, Missouri, from 1890 to 1924. Its 35 years of criminal activity included bootlegging, labor slugging, voter intimidation, armed robbery, and murder. Although predominantly Irish-American, Egan's Rats did include a few Italian-Americans and some Jewish immigrants, most notably Max "Big Maxie" Greenberg. (en)
name	Egan's Rats (en)
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Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage	Bright's Disease Democratic Party (United States) Detroit List of fugitives from justice who disappeared Union busting Max Greenberg Saint Valentine's Day Massacre Frank Wortman Fred Burke Granite City, Illinois Bottoms Gang Gangs in St. Louis Missouri Morris Rudensky Homicide Thomas Egan (gangster) Thomas Kinney Thomas Licavoli Leo Vincent Brothers Staunton, Illinois Irish-American culture in Missouri Frank Hackethal Toledo, Ohio Tuberculosis David "Chippy" Robinson Walter Costello Wellston, Missouri William "Skippy" Rohan William Colbeck (gangster) William Egan (gangster) Affton, Missouri Dupo, Illinois Prohibition gangs Irish-American organized crime groups St. Louis Post-Dispatch Prohibition Jake Lingle Chicago Tribune Hogan Gang Maplewood, Missouri Southampton, St. Louis St. Valentine’s Day Massacre Midwest Robbery Exactor Rum-running Irish-American Italian-American Harry Dunn (gangster) John Dunn (gangster) Jewish-American
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criminal activities	Union busting Homicide Robbery Exactor Rum-running
ethnic makeup	Irish-American Italian-American Jewish-American
founded	c. 1890 (en)
founding location	St. Louis, Missouri, United States (en)
membership est	300 (xsd:integer)
rivals	Bottoms Gang Hogan Gang
territory	St. Louis, Missouri, United States (en)
years active	1890 (xsd:integer)
has abstract	Egan's Rats was an American organized crime gang that exercised considerable power in St. Louis, Missouri, from 1890 to 1924. Its 35 years of criminal activity included bootlegging, labor slugging, voter intimidation, armed robbery, and murder. Although predominantly Irish-American, Egan's Rats did include a few Italian-Americans and some Jewish immigrants, most notably Max "Big Maxie" Greenberg. Formed by Thomas "Snake" Kinney and Tom Egan, the gang became the dominant criminal organization in St. Louis around the turn of the 20th century, when they became noted as the worst political terrorists in the city. The Rats squeezed out the required number of Democratic votes at the polls. In addition to their election tactics, the Rats also engaged in union busting, armed robbery, and theft from railroads. By the mid-1910s, the gang had entered into bootlegging. By 1921, both Tom and Willie Egan were dead and leadership of the crew passed to William "Dint" Colbeck. Egan's Rats soon went to war with the rival Hogan Gang, whom they suspected of killing Willie Egan. After defeating the Hogans in a well-publicized war, the Rats turned to armed robberies rather than bootlegging as a chief source of income. In November 1924, nine key members of the Egan gang were sentenced to long terms in federal prison for a mail robbery at Staunton, Illinois. While a few lower-ranking members of Egan's Rats still operated in St. Louis, they were finished by the fall of 1925. Those members of the gang who escaped imprisonment spread across the country. Some of the ex-Rats, led by Fred "Killer" Burke, were suspected of being involved in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. The gang later made headlines when gang member Leo Vincent Brothers was convicted of the murder of Chicago Tribune reporter Jake Lingle in June 1930. (en)

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