Outlaws Flashcards
Ned Kelly
1854-1880 Australian bushranger outlaw - During the “Kelly Outbreak”, his gang committed bank robberies and murdered police - Caught in a shootout and hanged at age 25 - Legendary folk hero in Australia
Billy the Kid (William Bonney)
1859-1881 American gunfighter from NYC - Participated in New Mexico Lincoln County War fighting for The Regulators - Killed at least 8 men - Ambushed by sheriff Pat Garrett, and shot dead at age 21 - Many legends and false claims of his survival in the next decades
Blackbeard (Edward Teach)
1680-1718 English pirate - Raided the West Indies y East Coast - Flagship was the 40-gun Queen Anne’s Revenge - Spurned the use of force, relying instead on his fearsome image to elicit the response he desired from those he robbed - Defeated by a naval force raised by the Governor of Virginia
Henry Morgan
1635-1688 Welsh privateer - Raided Spanish settlements along the Caribbean coast (the Spanish Main) - Flagship was the Satisfaction - Served as Admiral of Royal Navy y later Lt. Gov of Jamaica
Jesse James
1847-1882 American outlaw - Served as a Civil War Confederate “bushwacker” guerrilla - With the James Gang he robbed banks, stagecoaches, trains - Killed at age 34 by Robert Ford, member of his gang, to claim bounty
Bat Masterson
1853-1921 American - US Army scout y gunfighter in the Wild West - Later became professional gambler y prizefighting expert - Moved to NYC in 1902 and became famous sportswriter - Became friends with Teddy Roosevelt, y received federal appointment
Judge (Phantly) Roy Bean
1825-1903 American eccentric saloon-keeper y Justice of the Peace - Called himself the “Law West of the Pecos” - Lived in remote SW Texas, and ran courthouse from his saloon using one old law book (with support from Texas Rangers)
“Wild Bill” (James Butler) Hickok
1837-76 American gunfighter y gambler - Fought for Union in Civil War - Later became professional gambler - Shot from behind playing poker in Deadwood, SD while holding the “Dead Man’s Hand” (Aces and eights) - Rumored to have been romantic with Calamity Jane
Dutch Schultz (Arthur Simon Flegenheimer)
1902-35 German Jewish-American mobster - Made fortune in bootlegging y numbers - Tried for tax evasion, asked The Commission (Mafia governing body) to kill prosecutor Thomas Dewey - Attempted it himself when they refused, and murdered by Commission hitmen
(Charles) “Lucky” Luciano (Salvatore Lucania)
1897-1962 Italian mobster - Considered the father of US Organized Crime, started the first Commission y National Crime Syndicate - Convicted of forced prostitution in 1936, sentenced to 30 years - Struck deal with US Gov to move back to Italy during WWII, and started large scale heroin racket there
Pablo Escobar
1949-93 Colombian drug lord - Head of the Medellín Cartel, which supplied 80% of the cocaine smuggled into the US - Wealthiest criminal in history, with net worth of $30 billion by the early 1990s - Shot by police during a manhunt
Charlotte Corday
1768-1793 French assassin - Guillotined at age 24 for murder of Jacobin leader Jean-Paul Marat by stabbing him in his bathtub - Memorialized in painting by Jacques-Louis David - Called “The Angel of Assassination”
Jean Lafitte
1780-1823 French pirate y privateer - Operated a warehouse in New Orleans to help disperse goods smuggled by his brother Pierre - Helped Andrew Jackson defeat British in Battle of New Orleans (1815) in exchange for legal pardon - Became spy for the Spanish during Mexican War of Independence (1810-21)
Adam Worth
1844-1902 German-born American criminal - Formed his own criminal network y organized major robberies y burglaries in USA y Europe - Called the “Napoleon of the criminal world” - Considered to be the inspriation for criminal mastermind James Moriarty in the Sherlock Holmes series
Nathuram Godse
1910-49 Indian Hindu nationalist from Maharashtra - Assassinated Mahatma Gandhi at Birla House in New Delhi on 1/30/1948, because of concessions given to muslims after the Partition of India (1947) - Captured immediately, y hanged the following year, despite requests of commutation by Gandhi’s sons
