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🗓️ 4 October 2023
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0:00.0 | all this shit. Okay, I looked it up. There's a guy named |
0:01.8 | Slaubbery Jim. He was the real person, was the leader of an |
0:05.8 | 1850s New York City gang called the Daybreak Boys. That's where I just stole it from. |
0:09.7 | Which was formed in the late 1840s in five points. |
0:13.1 | The slum with membership drawn from teenage Irish immigrants. |
0:16.0 | The gang committed robberies, shipped sabotage, frequent |
0:19.7 | murders along the East River. |
0:21.7 | The daybreak boys are believed to have caused the loss at least $100,000 in property and |
0:25.7 | committed at least 20 murders between 1815 and 1852. |
0:29.5 | Very cool. |
0:31.4 | This guy has an insane story. |
0:33.3 | I'm just going to read the rest of this. |
0:35.9 | Jim assumed leadership of the gang with Bill Lowry in 1853 after the gang's leaders were arrested and after a failed attempt to raid the brig William Watson. |
0:47.4 | However, he had to flee New York City to avoid prosecution for the murder of a fellow daybreak boy known as Patsy the Barber. |
0:55.9 | The two had robbed and murdered a newly arrived German immigrant, but then the pair got |
1:01.4 | to an altercation at a criminal dive known as the hole in the wall over the distribution of |
1:07.0 | the 12 cents taken from the victim. Slobbery Jim wanted the biggest share as he had thrown the man into the river, |
1:13.8 | while Patsy the Barber wanted an equal share as he had bludgeoned the victim in the first place. |
1:17.9 | Slappery Jim tried to bite Patsy the Barber's nose off while Patsy the barber tried to cut Jim's throat. |
1:24.6 | After a lengthy fight, Jim cut Patsy's throat before stomping him to death with his |
1:29.8 | hobb nail boots. |
1:32.0 | Damn. |
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