Nathan Kaplan

Nathan Kaplan

"Kid Dropper" Nathan Caplin or Kaplan (August 3, 1891 - August 28, 1923), also known as Jack the Dropper, was an American gangster controlling labor racketeering and extortion in New York City during the post-World War I period into the early years of Prohibition in the early 1920s.

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