1. Hymie Weiss was known as "the only man Al Capone feared".
15 Facts About Hymie Weiss
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Hymie Weiss's parents emigrated to the United States in 1901 when Henryk was 3 years old and, upon their arrival in the new country, took the names of William and Mary Weiss.
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Hymie Weiss had four siblings who survived infancy: Bernard, Frederick, Violet and Joseph.
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Hymie Weiss was nicknamed "Hymie" and "Hymie the Pole", later in his career.
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Hymie Weiss was known to be against prostitution, fueling his scorn of the city's south side vice cartels.
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Hymie Weiss is credited with the first known use of the organized crime practice of the "one way ride", referring to a planned murder where the victim is lured or coerced into driving with their killers and is killed either en route to or upon arrival at a destination.
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Hymie Weiss was seen driving off with Steve Wisniewski, a local criminal who had recently hijacked a Northside beer shipment, in July 1921.
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On one occasion, Hymie Weiss chased away at gunpoint a deputy US Marshal who came to arrest a friend for violation of the Mann Act at a party he was attending.
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Hymie Weiss succeeded his friend as North Side gang leader and embarked on a campaign of revenge against the Torrio-Capone Gang and the Genna Brothers.
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Hymie Weiss was terminally ill with cancer, which made him heedless of his own safety when conducting bold attacks on Torrio's gang.
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Hymie Weiss allied his North Side Gang with the Westside O'Donnells, the Saltis-McErlane mob, and the GKW gang.
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Jury selection for a murder trial of Joe Saltis, with whom Hymie Weiss sought an alliance, began on October 11,1926, and Hymie Weiss and four of his men were sighted there.
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Hymie Weiss is buried at Mount Carmel Cemetery in Hillside, Illinois, the same place as Al Capone and Dean O'Banion.
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Hymie Weiss was succeeded as leader of the North Side gang by Vincent Drucci.
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In 2013 and 2014, Hymie Weiss is portrayed by Will Janowitz on the third and fourth seasons of Boardwalk Empire.