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===Gang wars=== The Noe-Schultz operation, which had begun to flourish in the Bronx, soon became the only gang able to rival the network of Italian crime syndicates that became the [[Italian-American Mafia|Mafia]]'s [[Five Families]].<ref name="five families book"/> When the gang expanded from the Bronx over to Manhattan's [[Upper West Side]] and the neighborhoods of [[Washington Heights, Manhattan|Washington Heights]], [[Yorkville, Manhattan|Yorkville]] and [[Harlem]], they moved their headquarters to [[List of numbered streets in Manhattan|East 149th Street]] in the Bronx. However, this brazen move led to a bootleg war with New York's [[Irish mob]], led by [[Legs Diamond|Jack "Legs" Diamond]]. In the early hours of October 16, 1928, Noe was shot several times outside the Chateau Madrid, a speakeasy at 231 [[54th Street (Manhattan)|West 54th]].<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1928/10/20/91723801.pdf |title=Fatal Pistol Battle Brings Night Club Raid |date=October 20, 1928}}</ref> Although seriously wounded, he managed to return fire. A blue [[Cadillac]] was seen hitting some parked cars and losing one of its doors before speeding away. When police found the car an hour later, they discovered the body of a Louis Weinberg (no relation to Schultz gang members [[Abraham Weinberg|Abraham "Bo" Weinberg]] and [[George Weinberg (mobster)|George Weinberg]]) in the backseat. Noe's wounds became infected, and he died on November 21.<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1928/11/22/95851016.pdf |title=Sheriff Aide Dies of Shots |date=November 22, 1928}}</ref> Schultz was left angry and distraught by the loss of his friend and mentor. Retaliation started a few weeks later when [[Arnold Rothstein]], a [[crime boss]] in the [[Jewish-American organized crime|Jewish mob]], was found fatally shot near the service entrance to the [[Park Central Hotel]] on November 6, 1928. Although George "Hump" McManus supposedly killed Rothstein over an unpaid gambling debt, Schultz is believed to have ordered the killing in retribution for Noe's death. This theory is supported by the fact that the first individual McManus rang after the killing was Schultz's attorney, [[Dixie Davis]]. Schultz's trusted lieutenant, Bo Weinberg, then picked up McManus and drove him away from the murder scene. McManus was later cleared of the killing. On October 12, 1930, Diamond was shot and wounded at the Hotel Monticello on Manhattan's [[West Side (Manhattan)|West Side]]. Two gunmen forced their way into Diamond's room and shot him five times before fleeing. Still in his pajamas, Diamond staggered into the hallway and collapsed. When asked later by the [[New York City Police Commissioner|New York City police commissioner]] how he managed to walk out of the room, Diamond said he drank two shots of [[whiskey]] first. Diamond was rushed to the Polyclinic Hospital in Manhattan, where he eventually recovered.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1930/10/13/102169864.pdf|title=Jack Diamond shot five times by gunmen in a 64th street hotel|date=October 13, 1930|work=The New York Times|access-date=April 28, 2013}}{{subscription required}}</ref> On December 30, 1930, Diamond was discharged from Polyclinic.<ref name="diamond case">{{cite news|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1931/08/08/92162468.pdf|title=Diamond case goes to the jury today|date=August 8, 1931|work=The New York Times|access-date=May 5, 2013}}{{subscription required}}</ref> During his absence, his gang was forced to leave the city. When he returned home, Diamond began carving out a new territory for himself in [[Albany, New York|Albany]]. He was killed in an Albany rooming house at 67 Dove Street by two gunmen in December 1931.<ref>{{cite news|title='Legs' Diamond Slain In Sleep At Albany By Two Assassins; Just Before Gang Murder |url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0714FE3E591B728DDDA00994DA415B818FF1D3 |quote=Jack (Legs) Diamond, human ammunition dump for the underworld, was killed in a cheap rooming house at 67 Dove ... |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=December 19, 1931 |access-date=August 9, 2012}}{{subscription required}}</ref> Schultz also had to deal with internecine conflicts within his own gang. In 1930 one of his enforcers, [[Mad Dog Coll|Vincent Coll]], demanded to be made an equal partner. This was because Schultz's subordinates received a flat salary instead of the customary percentage from the takeβa unique arrangement compared to other major gangs in [[organized crime]]. When Schultz refused, Coll formed his own crew with the ultimate goal of murdering Schultz and taking over his territory. In the bloody gang war that followed, Coll lost his older brother Pete and earned the nickname "Mad Dog" from the press after a child was killed during a botched assassination attempt committed by his gang. In February 1932, while Coll was taking a call in a drugstore phone booth, gunmen armed with [[machine gun]]s entered the store and shot him to death. The killers may have included Edward "Fats" McCarthy and the brothers Bo and George Weinberg.
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