Charles Reiser
Charles "The Ox" Reiser (1878 – October 10, 1921) was a
Biography
He was born in 1878; very little is known of Reiser's early life. Reiser quickly started a
In 1907, he was convicted of
Around 1914, Reiser met O'Banion, the future leader of the Chicago
In 1920, one of Reiser's safecracking partners, Clarance White, told Reiser that the cops had questioned him about a job they committed. Reiser and White had stolen a Standard Oil Co. safe and taken its contents. To protect himself, Reiser murdered White and made it look like a suicide. Around April 1921, another Reiser associate, John Mahoney, was arrested while safecracking and started talking to the police. Reiser murdered him also.
In 1921, while recovering in a Chicago hospital after an attempted robbery, Reiser's wife came to visit him. A staff member soon discovered her weeping over his dead body in his hospital room. Somewhat indicative of the state of Chicago law and politics at that time, the coroner's jury declared that Reiser – whose body had ten separate bullet wounds in it – had died as a result of suicide.
See also
References
- ^ Dyer, Richard J. "The Northsiders". hymieweiss.com. Archived from the original on 23 August 2018. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
General references
- Sifakis, Carl. The Mafia Encyclopedia. New York: Da Capo Press, 2005. ISBN 0-8160-5694-3
- Sifakis, Carl. The Encyclopedia of American Crime. New York: Facts on File Inc., 2001. ISBN 0-8160-4040-0
External links
- Unusual Guide to Chicago - The "Ox" Kills Pal's Wife Archived 2007-01-17 at the Wayback Machine