Jack “Legs” Diamond, a 34-year-old Irish-American white man, had built a reputation in the Prohibition era for living fast and outlasting violence that seemed certain to finish him. By late 1931, he was in New York’s Capital Region with the weight of recent court battles still hanging in the air, a bootleg celebrity whose name drew both newspaper attention and the kind of enemies that didn’t need an introduction.
In December, a Troy courtroom set him free again on kidnapping-rela
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