"Consisting of a half dozen attorneys and an equal number of clerks, Howe & Hummel worked on retainer for Chester McLaughlin's "Valentine Gang" of forgers and General Abe Greenthal's "Sheeney Mob," a nationwide syndicate of pickpockets."
http://www.law.utexas.edu/lpop/etext/lsf/papke9.htm
But ask the writer of the post.
In any case the article looks interesting: "LEGITIMATE ILLEGITIMACY: THE MEMOIRS OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY PROFESSIONAL CRIMINALS "
Peter Kosenko
---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 14:02:10 -0500
>Max Sawicky wrote:
>
>>You have to know the problem is not w/'bastard',
>>but "sheeney." What do you think it means?
>
>Lehman's gone, never to return.
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>I never heard this word before - where's it come from?
>
>Doug
>