Iron Mike Malloy: The Man Who Would Not Die

Dark Histories

Ben Cutmore

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🗓️ 29 March 2022

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Depression-era New York was a tough time for a guy just looking to get by. The pressure of feeding a family, the lack of available work, the poor conditions suffered from much of the work that was available and at the end of the day, you couldn’t even relax with a drink or drown your sorrows in the bottom of a bottle. At least, not legally. Whilst laws attempted to stop people from drinking alcohol, the culture of the speakeasy ripped through the underground. It was a place where one could relax and unwind, listen to some live music, play some cards, or set up an insurance fraud with a few of the friendly locals. It was the latter that took place in a small dive in The Bronx over several months in 1933 that would highlight how desperate the times could really be. It would also prove to be one of the most catastrophic displays of disorganised crime that the 19th-century newspapers would ever write about in what was dubbed as New York’s “most fantastic” murder. SOURCES Read, Simon (2005) On The House: The Bizarre Killing of Michael Malloy. Berkly Publishing Group, NY, USA. Funderburg, Anne (2014) Bootleggers and Beer Barons of the Prohibition Era. McFarland Incorporated Publishers, NC, USA. Brooklyn Times Union (1933) Gang Murderers “Rub Out” 4 Men, Wound Another. Brooklyn Times Union, 20 March, 1933. P.3. NY, USA. Brooklyn Times Union (1933) Two Gun Girl Seized In Bronx Holdup. Brooklyn Times Union, 17 April, 1933. P.1. NY, USA. Daily News (1933) 5 Indicted As Murderers In Insurance Ring Probe. Daily News, 17 May, 1933. NY, USA. Daily News (1933) When Justice Triumphed. Daily News, 29 October, 1933, P.42. Daily News, NY, USA. ---------- For almost anything, head over to the podcasts hub at darkhistories.com Support the show by using our link when you sign up to Audible: http://audibletrial.com/darkhistories or visit our Patreon for bonus episodes and Early Access: https://www.patreon.com/darkhistories The Dark Histories books are available to buy here: http://author.to/darkhistories Dark Histories merch is available here: https://bit.ly/3GChjk9 Connect with us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/darkhistoriespodcast Or find us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/darkhistories & Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dark_histories/ Or you can contact us directly via email at [email protected] or via voicemail on: (415) 286-5072 or join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/cmGcBFf The Dark Histories Butterfly was drawn by Courtney, who you can find on Instagram @bewildereye Music was recorded by me © Ben Cutmore 2017 Other Outro music was Paul Whiteman & his orchestra with Mildred Bailey - All of me (1931). It's out of copyright now, but if you're interested, that was that.

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0:00.0	Depression era New York was a tough time for a guy just looking to get by. The pressures
0:06.8	of feeding a family, the lack of available work, the poor condition suffered from much
0:11.9	of the work that was available and at the end of the day you couldn't even relax with
0:15.7	a drink or drown your sorrows in the bottom of a bottle. At least, not legally. Whilst
0:21.8	laws attempted to stop people from drinking alcohol, the culture of the speakeasy ripped
0:26.4	through the underground. It was a place where one could relax and unwind, listen to
0:31.4	some live music, play some cards, or set up an insurance fraud with a few of the friendly
0:37.2	locals. It was the latter that took place in a small dive in the Bronx over several
0:42.8	months in 1933 that would highlight how desperate the times could really be. It would also
0:48.9	prove to be one of the most catastrophic displays of disorganized crime that the 19th
0:54.3	few newspapers would ever write about in what was dubbed as New York's most fantastic
1:00.3	murder. This is Dark History's, where the facts are worse than fiction.
1:04.9	Hello and welcome to Dark History's Season 6 Episode 5. I hope you're all well. I'm
1:16.6	Ben, as always, this week we've got a story that I actually didn't realise was as well
1:23.8	known as it is, or as it turned out to be. I found this story and thought, yes, this
1:30.0	is an interesting one. This could work for Dark History's and I started looking into it
1:33.5	and still thought it was not a particularly well-known story. Then I mentioned it to a few
1:41.1	people, specifically Halle, the producer. I said, oh, you know, I found this story and
1:46.4	apparently, yeah, it's quite quite well known. But anyway, it doesn't have to do it again.
1:52.2	So this is my take on Iron Mike Maloy, the man who would not die.
2:01.5	In America, prohibition had been suggested and even put into limited practice in several
2:06.4	states prior to the Civil War. Fervent religious groups had given birth to ideas, such as the
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