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-related char
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