Events
- An Italian-American criminal organization known as the Favara Brotherhood is discovered to be operating in Sulphur County, Sicily.
- Johnny Walsh is killed in a gunfight with rival Dutch Mob gang members Johnny Irving and Billy Porter.
- March 8 - Whyos gang member Mike McGloin is hanged at Tombs Prison for the murder of saloonkeeper Louis Hannier.
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