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Jacob "Jack" Drucker or "Little Sure Shot" (* 1905 or 1906 ; † January 23, 1962 in Attica State Prison , New York ) was a figure from organized crime in New York in the 1930s and is now part of the Kosher Nostra . Drucker was considered a member of the criminal organization Murder, Inc. led by Louis Buchalter and was linked by the authorities with a total of five murders in the gang milieu.

Life

Drucker's FBI file documented 14 arrests between 1928 and 1936 for crimes such as robbery, as well as violations of the Gun Act and Alcohol Prohibition Act. The public prosecutor's office first investigated him for murder in 1930. Drucker was suspected of having shot David Siegel. After showing an alibi, Drucker was released from custody and the investigation against him was closed. Drucker did not serve any prison sentence in any of the cases.

When investigations into numerous alleged members of the Murder, Inc. were initiated in 1940, Drucker preferred to go into hiding and from that point on was considered a fugitive before the judiciary. On May 20 and June 11, 1940, a total of four murder charges were brought against him by the Sullivan County Attorney's Office . Drucker is said to have been involved as a perpetrator or participant in the murders of Walter Sage, Irving Ashkenaz, Hyman Yuran and Charles "Chink" Sherman. Among other things, Sherman's body was found on Drucker's farm in Hurleyville, New York State. A search was carried out in Canada, Mexico, and the United States for printers and a reward of US $ 500 was offered at times for capturing them alive or dead. Since the search was initially unsuccessful and there was no concrete lead, it was suspected that Drucker, like other members of the criminal organization, had himself been murdered.

After three years on the run, Drucker was arrested on December 27, 1943 in Wilmington by investigators from the FBI and the Delaware State Police. Drucker came into the focus of the authorities when he drove an automobile that had been stolen a short time earlier in New York City to an address in Wilmington to visit his wife and their child. The arrest during a nightly house search took place without resistance. Rather, the officers put the fugitive in the bedroom of the house.

In 1944, Drucker was sentenced to 25 years to life imprisonment in Monticello, New York State, for the murder of Walter Sage. Sage, a disgraced member of the gang, was stabbed to death by Drucker and another passenger, allegedly Irving Cohen , in 1937 while driving in the Catskills . Allegedly, Sage is said to have withheld profits from the gambling business from the gang. Drucker is said to have been the driver of the car. The perpetrators then attached Saga's corpse to a gaming machine and sank it on the bottom of a lake.

In January 1962, Drucker died of a heart attack in his cell in Attica State Prison.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Murder Inc. Figure Dies New York Times , January 24, 1962 (English)
2. ↑ ^{a b} D.A. deferred to try Drucker, alleged Lepke aid, for murder Brooklyn Daily Eagle , March 14, 1944 (English)