10. Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd
It is a known fact that Charles Arthur Floyd hated his nickname, but sources disagree on how he received them. Two stories are given a "Pretty Boy" was given by the prostitutes from the brothels, which he visited, and the second that he earned his nickname from a description of him in his first major robbery as "a pretty boy given." He hated the name so much that he killed other gangsters for calling him the nickname. In fact, afteris shot down, with his last breath, he made one last statement: "I am Charles Arthur Floyd."
9. Charlie "Lucky Luciano
Charlie Luciano was nicknamed "Lucky" when he beat up again to get out, "a ride" to. He has a knife would be caused by his encounter with a constant eye hanging obtained (pictured here). Many stories circulate about the trip, but most agree he was tortured by the family of an officer whose daughter he had seduced. He used this storyIncrease his legend with the underworld often claim he was the only member of the Mafia back alive after having taken for a ride. At his age, after being deported to Italy, Lucky was a charitable man, helping many Italians before to a medical supply store as a cover for his illegal business.
8. Sam "Golf Bag" Hunt
The nickname "Golf Bag" is certainly not convey to fear, anxiety or even ask until you got the reason for this gangster named golf bag.Working for Capone as a mob enforcer (Hitman), Sam Hunt would be his arms in the golf bag bear to hide them. If you saw Sam come to you with his golf bag slung on his shoulder, and your not tee off on the lawn, you might want to run the other direction.
7. Israel "Icepick Willie" Alderman
This grisly nickname does not need much imagination. As you would suspect involved Icepick Willie's "method of the murder one ice pick. As owner of a speakeasy in MinneapolisGangsters were his victims by using the icepick through their eardrums and brain death. He used this fast "technique" because it would witness only the victim suddenly see how a break-through would be drunk, had passed. Icepick Willie could then drag the body out of the speakeasy, as if the support of the drunkard, and then to dispose of the body.
6. Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll
Not someone you ever want to get to know, Mad Dog Coll was the nickname for his disregard forfor human life and for children. On 28 July 1931, Coll unsuccessfully attempted to kidnap Joey Rao, a subordinate of Dutch Schultz. The resulting shootout left five years old child, Michael Vengali, dead and several children injured. According to this cruelty, New York City Mayor Jimmy Walker Coll "Mad Dog" and the entire city named on the search for him. A $ 50,000 bounty was placed on the Mad Dog, and he was shot while making a call in a phone booth in 1932.
5.Thomas "Butterfingers" Moran
Legendary thief, Thomas "Butterfingers" Moran, who was a skilled pickpocket, "could slide in and out of the bag like pure butter." Thomas raised his first pocket watch in 1906 in San Francisco and his last pocket money at age 78, in 1970. It is said that he took more than 50,000 bags in his lifetime. How did Pretty Boy, Butterfingers not care for his nickname when he was quoted, "" I've never forgiven that smart-alecky reporter who called me 'Butterfingers'. "
4.Lester "Baby Face" Nelson
Public Enemy # 1 in the 1930s, Lester Joseph Gillis, better known as "Baby Face" Nelson, for his youthful appearance, not his nickname care and at one point declared himself "Big" George Nelson. The problem? He was only 5 feet 4 inches tall. "Where would kill outlaws like Pretty Boy Floyd ... to protect themselves if forced a corner, Nelson went out of his way to murder - he loved it," said Jay Robert Nash Bloodletters and Badmen. "His angels,Pear smooth face never betrayed his instant ability to kill. "Photo courtesy of Rick Mattix.
3. George "Machine Gun" Kelly
George "Machine Gun" Kelly, the notorious gangsters, the FBI agents the nickname G-men, gangsters got his nickname from his wife Kathryn, which forced him to practice with the machine gun. (She gave him a birthday gift.) She was his public character, and built his "street cred" with other criminals. In fact he was not indicted orNever been convicted of murder and kill with a machine gun with intent. During his time at Alcatraz, he got the nickname "Pop Gun Kelly" for the fact that he was a model prisoner and by far not the hard, brutal gangster's wife had to be made.
2. Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel
An American gangster who was a driving force behind the development of Las Vega, Ben "Bugsy" Siegel did not like his nickname, and was never mentioned that to his face. It has been said to cause him toangry, so murderous. During his trial for the murder of Harry "Big Greenie" Greenberg (he was acquitted), the newspapers revealed sordid past seals and began focusing on him as "Bugsy". He hated the nickname, "Bugsy" (said to be transmitted by the slang term "bugs", which means "crazy", describes his erratic behavior), and would allow no one to call him that to his face.
1. "Scarface" Al Capone
Scarface Al was employed as a bouncer of gangster Frankie Yale. Caponegot the scars, which earned him the nickname "Scarface" when he injured a woman while working the door at a Brooklyn night club. This provoked an argument with her brother Frank Gallucio. Capone's face was cut three times on the left side by Gallucio. When photographed, Capone hid the scars of the left side of his face and would be over his injuries as war wounds are, but he served in the Army. According to the magazine in 2002 from his life, Capone was a "Snorky" by his closestFriends. "Scarface" was certainly the better choice for an underworld gangster. Who could take Al "Snorky Capone seriously.
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