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Maurice Enright, the Glossary

Maurice "Mossy" or "Mossie" Enright (died February 2, 1920) was an Irish-American gangster and one of the earliest Chicago labor racketeers in the early 20th century.^[1]

24 relations: Acquittal, Al Capone, Alderman, Arrest, Big Jim Colosimo, Chicago, Gang, Gangster, Gun, Irish Americans, James Cosmano, John Coughlin (alderman), Johnny Torrio, Labour economics, Michael Kenna (politician), Murder, Pipefitter, Politics, Prohibition, Racketeering, South Side, Chicago, Timothy D. Murphy, Trade union, Violence.
Gangsters from Chicago
Murdered American gangsters of Irish descent

Acquittal

In common law jurisdictions, an acquittal means that the prosecution has failed to prove that the accused is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of the charge presented.

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Alphonse Gabriel Capone (January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947), sometimes known by the nickname "Scarface", was an American gangster and businessman who attained notoriety during the Prohibition era as the co-founder and boss of the Chicago Outfit from 1925 to 1931.

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Alderman

An alderman is a member of a municipal assembly or council in many jurisdictions founded upon English law with similar officials existing in the Netherlands (wethouder) and Belgium (schepen).

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Arrest

An arrest is the act of apprehending and taking a person into custody (legal protection or control), usually because the person has been suspected of or observed committing a crime.

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Big Jim Colosimo

Vincenzo Colosimo (February 16, 1878 – May 11, 1920), known as James "Big Jim" Colosimo or as "Diamond Jim", was an Italian-American Mafia crime boss who emigrated from Calabria, Italy, in 1895 and built a criminal empire in Chicago based on prostitution, gambling and racketeering. Maurice Enright and Big Jim Colosimo are deaths by firearm in Illinois and people murdered in Illinois.

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Chicago

Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.

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Gang

A gang is a group or society of associates, friends, or members of a family with a defined leadership and internal organization that identifies with or claims control over territory in a community and engages, either individually or collectively, in illegal, and possibly violent, behavior, with such behavior often constituting a form of organized crime.

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Gangster

A gangster is a criminal who is a member of a gang.

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Gun

A gun is a device designed to propel a projectile using pressure or explosive force.

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Irish Americans

Irish Americans (Gael-Mheiriceánaigh) are ethnic Irish who live in the United States and are American citizens.

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James Cosmano

James Cosmano also known as "Sunny Jim" (born July 17, 1885 – May 2, 1963) was a leader of the Black Hand street gang in pre-Prohibition Chicago who tried to extort money from the South Side gang.

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John Coughlin (alderman)

John Joseph Coughlin (August 15, 1860 – November 11, 1938), known as "Bathhouse John" or "the Bath", was an American politician who served as alderman of Chicago's 1st ward from 1892 until his death.

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Johnny Torrio

John Donato Torrio (born Donato Torrio,; January 20, 1882 – April 16, 1957) was an Italian-born American mobster who helped build the Chicago Outfit in the 1920s later inherited by his protégé Al Capone. Maurice Enright and Johnny Torrio are gangsters from Chicago.

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Labour economics

Labour economics, or labor economics, seeks to understand the functioning and dynamics of the markets for wage labour.

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Michael Kenna (politician)

Michael Kenna (August 20, 1857 – October 9, 1946), also known as "Hinky Dink", was an American politician who served as alderman of Chicago's 1st Ward from 1897 to 1923 and again from 1939 to 1943.

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Murder

Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse committed with the necessary intention as defined by the law in a specific jurisdiction.

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Pipefitter

A pipefitter or steamfitter is a tradesman who installs, assembles, fabricates, maintains, and repairs mechanical piping systems.

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Politics

Politics is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status.

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Prohibition

Prohibition is the act or practice of forbidding something by law; more particularly the term refers to the banning of the manufacture, storage (whether in barrels or in bottles), transportation, sale, possession, and consumption of alcoholic beverages.

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Racketeering

Racketeering is a type of organized crime in which the perpetrators set up a coercive, fraudulent, extortionary, or otherwise illegal coordinated scheme or operation (a "racket") to repeatedly or consistently collect a profit.

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South Side, Chicago

The South Side is one of the three major sections of the city of Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Timothy D. Murphy

Timothy D. "Big Tim" Murphy (1885 – June 26, 1928) was a Chicago mobster and labor racketeer who controlled several major railroad, laundry and dye workers' unions during the 1910s and early 1920s. Maurice Enright and Timothy D. Murphy are deaths by firearm in Illinois, gangsters from Chicago, Murdered American gangsters of Irish descent and people murdered in Illinois.

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Trade union

A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages and benefits, improving working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing status of employees (rules governing promotions, just-cause conditions for termination) and protecting and increasing the bargaining power of workers.

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Violence

Violence is the use of physical force to cause harm to people, or non-human life, such as pain, injury, death, damage, or destruction.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Enright

Also known as Mossy Enright.