On this day, Aug. 13, in 1930, Bessie Starkman, the only Jewish female underboss of a Prohibition-era crime family, was gunned down in Ontario near the American border.
Her husband, Rocco Perri, was the first of Canada’s great bootleggers and the country’s first major mob figure.
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