Jake Guzik lived a long life for that time period (70 years old at his death) especially considered he was in the middle of things at a very dangerous time, the 1920's.
Thats right and I agree 100%.
In fact, Guzik went through two quite dangerous conflicts. One being during the days of Prohibition, and the second conflict during the 1940s, which was again against the North Side mob and also again, Guzik was still at the top together with the Fischettis and Accardo, since the previous top leadership was in jail at the time (Ricca, Campagna, D'Andrea etc.). Guzik was again part of the group which managed to defend the throne from the old "Northsiders" for the second time. Although I think that during the early 1940s he was once allegedly kidnapped by someone. Some sources say that it was the rising younger generation, while I personally suspect that it was the rival North Side crew. Legend goes that Guzik allegedly paid off his kidnappers.
