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Misfortune Follows Clark Street Gambler Ring Figure Mike McDonald
A Chicago retrospective traces the decline of Mike McDonald once atop Clark Street’s gambling empire. The piece recalls his doomed associates and the “bunko” era, noting the fates of Dunn, Hankins, Garrity brothers, and others as money tainted by crime collapses into poverty, death, or fading notoriety.
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Chicago
Mike” McDonald
Webster Guerin
New Jersey
McDonald
al”’ Adams
King” of
New York
al” Adama
Clark Street
Patrick Casey
Casey
James Papes
Treasury
Springfield
Ill
Canada
Joseph Lewis
Joe
Jimmy” Hoey
al Walters
Riley
Hoey
Mollie Holbrook
Buck” Holbrook
Hennepin
Wil
Europe
Bunko
Harry Lawrence
Steerer No. 1
Jere ‘Dunn
Jimmy” Elliott
Jore Dunn
Dunn
Garrity Brothers
John
Hugh
Mike
John Garrity
James Peavey
Garrity
Mike Garrity
John Dowling
Dowling
James Watson
Sir James
Elliott
Eliott
Tangdon
Dan
Luther Laflin Mills
Jere Dunn