Tommy Lynch (gangster)
Tommy Lynch | |
|---|---|
 A Lower East Side street scene from the 1910s; no authenticated portrait of Lynch is known | |
| Died | 1914 (reported) |
| Occupation | Gang leader |
Criminal status | Deceased |
| Allegiance | Gas House Gang |
Tommy Lynch was an early-20th-century New York gang figure whom Herbert Asbury identifies as the final leader of the Gas House Gang. Asbury says Lynch was killed in 1914 during fighting with a rival faction.[1]
Some modern lists name a “Tommy Lynch” as a founder of the Dead Rabbits, but no reliable contemporary or scholarly source reviewed supports that identification. The documented Gas House Gang leader operated decades after the Dead Rabbits' reported 1830s–1850s period and should not be conflated with an otherwise unidentified alleged founder.
References
- ↑ Herbert Asbury, The Gangs of New York (Alfred A. Knopf, 1928), chapter 11.