Last year, Liebowitz acquitted the two men whom the Police Dept. was most anxious to convict: Vincent Coll, the Baby-Killer, and Harry Stein, accused of the murder of Vivian Gordan.

With illustrations by the author Until he undertook the defense of the Scottsboro case, Samuel S. Leibowitz thought of himself as the “defender of unpopular causes.” The walls of his outer ...

Vincent Coll was an enforcer for both Dutch Schultz and Owney Madden, and both were scared shitless of him. He was the blackest of the “Black Irish,” with dark eyes that never blinked.

Vincent 'Mad Dog' Coll: The Irish immigrant turned NYC gangster A look at Donegal native Vincent Coll, who went on to be one of the most notorious gangsters in 1920s New York City.

In the late 1950s into the mid-60s, there were a lot of films which purported to be biographies of famous mobsters, such as Al Capone and George "Pretty Boy" Floyd. "Mad Dog Coll" is one of these ...

What was Gene Hackman’s first movie? Hackman made his screen debut in Burt Balaban’s 1961 biographical drama Mad Dog Coll, starring John Davis Chandler as notorious mob hitman Vincent Coll, in what ...

Vincent Coll, a New York gangster from County Donegal, lived by the tommy-gun and died by the tommy-gun.

COLL, James Vincent - 16th May 2023 at Goulburn Base Hospital Late of Bourke Street, Goulburn Loved brother & brother-in-law of Stevan & Mary, John, Peter & Tracy and Diana Loved uncle of their ...

1931: Mob hitman Vincent Coll allegedly participates in a kidnapping attempt that results in the death of a child, which earns him the nickname “Mad Dog”. 1932: US President Herbert Hoover uses ...

Flashback to the telephone conversation between Owney and Vincent Coll. Look out, it can be traced. Flash to the call traced to the phone booth on 23rd Street and the machine-gunning of Vincent Coll.