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The drugstore where gangland boss Vincent Coll was killed, on February 8, 1932. Coll was killed inside the store while making a phone call.
Photo: Associated Press
Schultz Declares He’s a Benefactor
New York Times | Meyer Berger
Introduction of another name called for some further conversational shadow-boxing. Did Flegenheimer [Dutch Schultz] know the late Vincent Coll?
“I knew his sister,” was Flegenheimer’s answer. “She’s Florence Redden. I just received a letter from her wishing luck in my trial.”
“Well, were you and Coll good friends?” Flegenheimer grinned.
“Sometimes,” he said.
Lottie Coll, the wife of slain gangster Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll, breaks down in tears on the shoulder of her lawyer, Samuel Leibowitz, in Brooklyn, February 8, 1932. Originally a member of Dutch Schultz's gang, he later broke away and the two became vicious enemies. (At one point, Schultz walked into a Bronx police station and offered "a house in Westchester" to whoever killed Coll.) But Coll's killer was actually Owney Madden, boss of the Hell's Kitchen Irish Mob.
Photo: Associated Press
On This Day in 1932, Vincent 'Mad Dog' Coll is finally put to sleep.
On This Day in 1932, Vincent 'Mad Dog' Coll is finally put to sleep.
Vincent ‘Mad Dog’ Coll was the archetypal wild, reckless, violent young gangster of the Prohibition era. Even at a time when crooks like Baby Face Nelson, John Dillinger and Al Capone inflicted violence and death on a regular basis, Coll managed to stand out as being especially vicious. An aura of complete recklessness, seeming unconcern with personal risk and utter indifference to violence hung…
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February 8, 1932 MAD DOG Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll was an Irish American mob hitman in the 1920s and early 1930s in New York. On February 1, 1932 four or five gunmen invaded a Bronx apartment which Coll was rumored to frequent and opened fire with pistols and submachine guns. Three Coll gangsters - Patsy Del Greco, Fiorio Basile and bystander Emily Torrizello - were killed. 3 others were wounded. Coll himself didn't show up until 30 minutes after the shooting. On February 8 Coll was using a phone booth - he was reportedly talking to Madden (leading underworld figure in Manhattan) demanding $50 000 from the gangster under the threat of kidnapping his brother-in-law. Madden kept Coll on the line while the call was traced. 3 men in a dark limousine soon arrived near the phone booth. While one waited in the car two others stepped out. One man waited outside while the other walked inside the store. The gunman told the cashier to "Keep cool, now", drew a submachine gun from under his overcoat and opened fire on Coll in the phone booth. Coll died instantly. The killers took off in their car. They were chased unsuccessfully up 8th Avenue by a foot patrolman who had heard the gunshots and commandeered a passing taxi. However the car got away. A total of 15 bullets were removed from Coll's body at the morgue but more may have passed through him. Coll was buried next to his brother Peter at Saint Raymond's Cemetery in the Bronx.
The Mad Dog Coll mob. 1920's.
From the left we have Vincent Coll AKA Mad Dog Coll, Mike Basile, Pasquale "Patsy" Del Greco, Dominick Odierno and Frank Gordano.
