Records of Samuel Weiss on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Samuel Weiss in your family tree. Many large databases are available to search covering from births, deaths and marriages, military records, census records and immigration records with many other smaller collections too. Free trials are normally available and are a good way to fill out a lot of your tree quickly.

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Samuel Weiss and the Weiss Family History

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Weiss Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Weiss family tree.

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Some Famous People called Samuel Weiss

Samuel Weiss (mobster)

Samuel "Sammy" Weiss (c. 1904 – ?) was a New York mobster and an associate of labor racketeer Jacob "Little Augie" Orgen. Employed as a gunman for Orgen and the "Little Augies", he took part in the gang war against Nathan Kaplan during the early 1920s. On the afternoon of August 28, 1923, several men were spotted by police shortly before Kaplan was to leave the Essex Market Courthouse (he would be killed later that day by Orgen gunman Louis Cohen). Although the men scattered as police officers approached, Weiss, Orgen and Samuel Gepson were arrested near the courthouse. Finding all three men to be carrying revolvers, the three were arrested and charged with violation of the Sullivan Law and arraigned at Essex Market Courthouse the following day.

While in custody, Weiss and Orgen were questioned by acting District Attorney Ferdinand Pecora and, while unable to gain a confession from either man, he publicly stated that he believed Kaplan's murder had been the result of an underworld feud between the two men. He and Orgen would be tried along with Cohen as accessories to Kaplan's murder, however only Cohen would be convicted while Weiss and Orgen were released.

In May 1937, as a result of an investigation by Districy Attorney Thomas E. Dewey into racketeering in the garment indstury, he and David Goldberg were convicted of filing false state income and franchise tax returns for Donnie Frock, Inc for the purposed of concealing $8,000 in unreported income. Although sentenced to an indeterminate sentence, a writ of reasonable doubt was signed by Supreme Court Justice Salvatore A. Cotillo on January 3, 1938, which allowed the release of both men in exchange for a bail of $2,500 each.

Source: Samuel Weiss (mobster), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

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