The Plugging of Jewish Gangster Plug ShumanSomeone once claimed Plug Shuman said, “Shoot ‘em twice in the back of the neck and they won’t wiggle.” The guy who killed him remembered and faithfully followed the dictum. To the bullet.
Albert Shuman was thirty-four when he died and, according to Thomas Hobbes, the 17th century British scientist and philosopher, fulfilled all the criteria for a miserable life lived to the full.
A Jewish gangster, Shuman found crime to be one of the queer ladders of social mobility in the American way of life. For many men in the early part of the 20th century, it was the only way to drag themselves out of an endless cycle of unemployment and lost opportunities in America’s biggest city. Although most sources spell his name with the C, court documents refer to him as Albert Shuman.
New York had plenty of hoodlums who emerged from the endless inflow of immigrants flooding the city: Italian, Irish, Eastern Europeans and Jews. Lots of Jews. The group that became famous or realistically infamous was The Combination, mislabelled by newspapers as Murder Inc.
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