The Daybreak Boys was a New York City street gang during the mid nineteenth century. Formed in the late 1840s, by 1852 the teenaged Daybreak Boys were suspected by police to have been responsible for 20 to 40 murders between 1850 and 1852 as …

Jun 4, 2013 · The Daybreak Boys were one of the most ruthless crews of “river pirates” who preyed on the city’s booming shipping industry during the late 1840s and 1850s.

Slobbery Jim (real name unknown) was a leader of the 1850s New York City gang, the Daybreak Boys, which was formed in the late 1840s in Five Points slum with membership drawn from teenaged Irish immigrants. The gang committed robberies, ship sabotage, and frequent murders along the East River.

Nov 22, 2019 · In The Gangs of New York, Herbert Asbury invokes the name of a particular band of river pirates–the Daybreak Boys–nearly as often as the city’s other feared street gangs: The Bowery Boys, The Dead Rabbits, the Plug Uglies, and the …

Formed in the late 1840s, by 1852 the teenaged Daybreak Boys were suspected by police to have been responsible for 20 to 40 murders between 1850 and 1852 as well as stealing goods …

Nicholas Saul (c. 1833 – January 28, 1853) was a nineteenth-century criminal and one of the founding members of the Daybreak Boys, a New York City street gang. [citation needed] Saul led many of the gang's early raids, many of which were before sunrise— earning the gang their nickname—on the Hudson River and East River waterfront.

Jan 28, 2008 · On this date in 1853, two chiefs of the New York street gang Daybreak Boys were hanged at “the Tombs” jail in Manhattan. It was a yeasty era in the Big Apple, burgeoning with immigrants into one of the great urban centers of the world.

Holmes described the Daybreak Boys as “a river-gang on the New York waterfront of the 1840’s” and added that his book was “about a new underground of young people,...

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Jan 16, 2023 · The Daybreak Boys were the most treacherous assassins to prowl the docks on the East Side of Manhattan. When they formed their elegant little group in the late 1840s, there were said to be three dozen members, none of them older than twenty.