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Harry "Happy" Maione (October 7, 1908 – February 19, 1942) was a New York mobster who served as a hitman for Murder, Inc. (the enforcement arm of the National Crime Syndicate) during the 1930s. Maione was called "Happy" because his face displayed an eternal scowl.
Harry "Happy" Maione (1908 – February 19, 1942) was an Italian-American hitman for Murder, Inc. (the enforcement arm of the National Crime Syndicate) during the 1930s. His nickname was given to him because he never smiled and his face displayed an eternal scowl.
19 feb 2008 · On this date in 1942, mobsters Frank Abbandando and Harry Maione were electrocuted in New York’s Sing Sing prison for murder. The two had risen together from an Ocean Hill, Brooklyn, gang to help weld together Murder, Inc. in the 1930’s — which, as its press-conferred moniker suggested, executed hits for the mob.
8 mar 2019 · Maione and Abbandando were convicted of killing suspected snitch Whitey Rudnick with an ice pick and a meat cleaver. Courtesy of Cipollini Collection. Police booked alleged murderers Maione, Harry “Pittsburgh Phil” Strauss and Frank “The Dasher” Abbandando on March 7, 1940.
Harry Maione and Frank Abbandando were the first members of the Brooklyn "Combination" to be put on trial for murder. In May 1940, the trial started for the May 25, 1937 ice-pick murder of George "Whitey" Rudnick in a Brooklyn parking garage.
4 mar 2024 · Harry “Pittsburgh Phil” Strauss and Martin “Buggsy” Goldstein were executed in 1941, followed by Harry “Happy” Maione and Frank “Dasher” Abbandando in 1942. Capone, Weiss and Buchalter were the last Murder Inc. defendants to die in the chair.
13 set 2021 · Not unlike the hazy origins of the murderous crew itself, the question of who actually came up with the phrase is subject to debate, but it likely was the brainchild of one of two imaginative newspapermen: Asa Bordages or Harry Feeney.
