Gangster Waxey Gordon Declares Himself Dead Before Riding NYC Subway 1940 Original TYPE I photo Signed Baseball Contracts In his senior year

In his senior year

causing him to die of internal bleeding

Max Lanier

Historical piece of American Space history

Gangster Waxey Gordon Declares Himself Dead Before Riding NYC Subway 1940 Original TYPE I photo Signed Baseball Contracts In his senior yearWaxey Gordon(D 1952) was an American gangster who specialized in bootlegging and illegal gambling. An associate of Arnold Rothstein during prohibition he was caught up in a power struggle following Rothstein's death. Fellow Rothstein associates, Charles Luciano and Meyer Lansky, provided authorities with evidence that led to his imprisonment for ten years. Gordon's success later led him to run all of Rothstein's bootlegging on most of the east coast,