title: 1934 in organized crime
text: # 1934 in organized crime
  
  ## Events
  
  * Phil D'Andrea is elected president of the Unione Siciliana, a Sicilian fraternal organization, in Chicago.
  * April 22 – Baby Face Nelson, hiding out with John Dillinger, at the Little Bohemia Lodge just outside Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin kills FBI Special Agent W. Carter Baum in a shootout.
  * Spring – Headed by Meyer Lansky and Johnny Torrio, organized crime leaders hold a conference at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York to discuss the formation of a National Crime Syndicate.
  * July 2 – Paul Castellano is arrested for the armed robbery of a Hartford, Connecticut store. Sentenced to one year imprisonment in the Hartford County Jail, Castellano serves three months before being released in December.
  * July 22 – John Dillinger killed in Chicago by the FBI.
  * October – New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia orders a police raid on gambling parlors. This raid damages over 1,000 slot machines owned by mob boss Frank Costello.
  * October 9 – Ferdinand "The Shadow" Boccia is abducted by Willie Gallo and Ernest "The Hawk" Rupolo after a dispute with Vito Genovese over a fixed card game. Boccia is later murdered.
  
  ## Arts and literature
  
  * When the Kellys Rode (film)
  * Jimmy the Gent (film) starring James Cagney.
  
  ## Births
  
  * November 6 – Isoji Koga, the founder of the Dojin-kai
  * Americo Petrillo "The Cigar", Patriarca crime family soldier and associate of William P. Grasso
  * Frank Salemme "Cadillac Frank", Patriarca crime family leader and former member of the Winter Hill Gang
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * April 26 - John "Red" Hamilton, bank robber mortally wounded by police on April 23 in Minnesota and later died in Illinois
  * May 23 – Clyde Barrow, outlaw shot dead by Federal marshals
  * May 23 – Bonnie Parker, outlaw shot dead by Federal marshals
  * July 22 – John Dillinger, Public enemy #1 shot dead by the FBI
  * August 23 - Homer Van Meter, bank robber shot dead by police in St. Paul MN
  * September 22 - Charles Makley, bank robber shot by prison guards during an attempted escape from Ohio State Prison
  * October 9 – Ferdinand Boccia, New York mobster
  * October 17 - Harry Pierpont, bank robber executed by electric chair
  * October 22 -Charles Arthur Floyd, Public enemy #1 shot dead by the FBI
  * November 27 – Babyface Nelson, Public enemy #1 died from wounds suffered in a shootout with 2 FBI agents
  