AKA Yosky AKA Yosky Nigger Born 1883 (Not 1879 as has been reported). Lived at 25 Seigel Street, Brooklyn. An early New York gangster (He was mentioned in Herbert Asbury’s work, Gangs of New York, as having been active before 1900) who specialized in extorting teamsters by threatening, and sometimes actually poisoning their teams.
In 1902, he was …
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