Tommy Lynch (gangster)
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Tommy Lynch | |
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 A Lower East Side street scene from the 1910s; no authenticated portrait of Lynch is known | |
| Died | 1914 (reported) |
| Other name | Tom Lynch |
| Occupation | Gang leader |
Criminal status | Deceased |
| Allegiance | Gas House Gang |
Tommy Lynch, also called Tom Lynch, was an early-20th-century New York gang figure. Herbert Asbury identifies him as the final leader of the Gas House Gang and says he was killed in early 1914 during fighting with the Jimmy Curley gang.[1]
No authenticated portrait or further reliable biographical details have been located. He operated decades after the reported period of the Dead Rabbits and should not be conflated with unsupported claims about that earlier gang.
References
[edit]- ↑ Herbert Asbury, The Gangs of New York (Alfred A. Knopf, 1928), chapter 16.