![]() ![]() Soon the Rats became overconfident and careless, beginning with a public shooting war against a gang led by Missouri beverage inspector Edward Jelly Roll Hogan. Louis was touched by them in some way or another. ![]() Louis's most dangerous gangster, the gang boated nearly 400 members. With Snake Kinney elected a Missouri state senator and Tom Egan entrenched as St. ![]() For nearly ten years, the gang cut a large swath in St. ![]() When Kinney ran on the Democratic ticket in the Third Ward, his friends were at the polls to ensure he received enough votes to win. They learned their trade the old-fashioned was, via robberies, brawls, burglaries, and shootings. Led by two childhood pals, Thomas Snake Kinney and Tom Egan, the Rats emerged from the city's Irish slums. Just who was this man who could boast in public about ordering murder? After nearly a century, the story of the Egan's Rats can finally be told: how a group of Victorian-era street punks mushroomed into a powerful force that controlled Missouri's largest city for nearly thirty years. We never shoot unless we know who is present, gang boss Tom Egan declared in a candid interview with a. ![]()
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