Yakey Yakes

The Yakey Yakes was a 19th-century street gang, prominent in New York's underworld during the late 1890s and early 1900s. Based in the neighborhood of Catherine and

Yakey Yake Brady in the 1890s and later participated in the gang war between Monk Eastman and Paul Kelly

.

Rivals of the

Jersey City

for carrying a loaded revolver also suffering from a gunshot wound which had shattered his jaw.

Oak Hill police initially charged William Budd and James Galligan, who an eyewitness identified, ambushing Brennan at Catherine and Madison Street and killing him.

References

"Round Up Gang Members". New York Times 11 January 1905.
"Yakey-Yakes Shoot Cherry Hill Partisan". New York Times 10 January 1905.