In the gritty landscape of Prohibition-era New York, a man named Herman 'Hyman' Amberg, a known male mobster of about 24 years of age, met a violent end, not at the hands of a rival gang, but by his own hand within the foreboding walls of the Tombs prison. His demise on November 3, 1926, was the final act in a life deeply enmeshed with the criminal underworld, a world he navigated alongside his brothers, Joseph and Louis, as part of the notorious Amberg gang. The gang was a formidable force, the
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