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- Buchalter died a little before midnight on March 4. When the mask that covered his face was removed, one of the reporters present described in the next day’s New York Journal American, “You look at the face you cannot tear your eyes away It is not a pretty sight.”
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Only a last minute word from New York Gov. Thomas E. Dewey could save them. The day before, Wednesday, Federal Judge Clarence G. Galston had declined to issue a writ of habeas corpus to delay Lepke’s execution. Attorney Wegman’s position in seeking the writ from Galston was on the grounds that Lepke’s constitutional rights had been violated.
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Louis Buchalter, known as Louis Lepke or Lepke Buchalter, (February 6, 1897 – March 4, 1944) was a Jewish-American organized crime figure and head of the Mafia hit squad Murder, Inc., during the 1930s. Buchalter was one of the premier labor union racketeers in New York City during that era.
Nov 13, 2009 · Louis “Lepke” Buchalter, the head of Murder, Inc., is executed at Sing Sing Prison in New York. Lepke was the leader of the country’s largest crime syndicate throughout the 1930s and was ...
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— Louis Buchalter (alias Louis Lepke) , convicted of conspiracy to commit murder, electric chair, New York. Executed March 4, 1944. The New York press referred to Buchalter as “the former overlord of the crime syndicate Murder, Inc.” The reputed gangster’s last words worked to preserve his reputation.
Mar 4, 2024 · Capone, Weiss and Buchalter were the last Murder Inc. defendants to die in the chair. Doomed from the start Louis “Lepke” Buchalter’s legal troubles grew dire several years before the shocking discovery of his contract-killing crew.
In the annals of crime in New York City no one was feared more than Louis ‘Lepke’ Buchalter, who ordered the murders of dozens of men. Chronicled and mythologized in scholarly and popular ...
Mar 4, 2013 · O n March 4, 1944, Louis "Lepke" Buchalter, the head of Murder, Inc., is executed at Sing Sing Prison in New York. Lepke was the leader of the country's largest crime syndicate throughout the 1930s and was making nearly $50 million a year from his various enterprises.
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