- May 14, 1908) also
known as "Kid Twist" and
occasionally referred to as
Zwerbach was an
American gangster active in the
early 1900s. Born
Maximillian Zweifach...
-
Eastman lieutenants Max
Zwerbach and
Richie Fitzpatrick.
Threatened by
civil war
during their war with the Five Pointers,
Zwerbach and
Fitzpatrick agree...
- Sing Prison.
November 1 –
Richie Fitzpatrick is
killed by "Kid Twist" Max
Zwerbach during peace negotiations between the two
rival factions of the Eastman...
- New York
gangster and
member of the
Eastman Gang
under Max "Kid Twist"
Zwerbach.
Lewis was a wrestler, strongman, and bodyguard;
supposedly wrapping iron...
- most
prominently for the
murder of
Eastman Gang
leader Max "Kid Twist"
Zwerbach and Vach "Cyclone Louie" Lewis. He
appears in
newspaper accounts and public...
-
Eastman crew was
largely eclipsed when Eastman's
successor Max "Kid Twist"
Zwerbach, a
former member of the Five
Points Gang
until he
defected to the Eastman...
- "Kid Twist" Max
Zwerbach; they both
became top lieutenants.
After Monk
Eastman was
arrested and
imprisoned in 1904,
Fitzpatrick and
Zwerbach began fighting...
- Twist"
after an
earlier New York City
Jewish gangster, Max "Kid Twist"
Zwerbach.
Another theory behind the
moniker is that it was the name of his favorite...
-
early 20th
centuries produced Jewish mobsters such as Max "Kid Twist"
Zwerbach, "Big" Jack Zelig, and Vach "Cyclone Louie" Lewis, who
competed with and...
- and
parts of New Jersey. Some of his top gunmen, such as "Kid Twist" Max
Zwerbach and
Richie Fitzpatrick,
became alienated,
defecting to the
Eastman Gang...
