Barnet Baff

Barnet Baff (c. 1863 – November 24, 1914)^[1]^[2] was a poultry dealer in New York City who was murdered by organized crime that represented the "poultry trust" in New York that extorted $10 per truckload of poultry from merchants.^[3]^[4] His death led to an investigation of organized crime in New York City and led to the resignation of Captain John McClintock.^[3]

Joseph Cohen was convicted of first degree murder and Abraham "Abie" Graff was convicted of manslaughter in the trial before Justice Tompkins. ^[5]

References

^ "New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949". FamilySearch. Retrieved April 13, 2021.
^ "Baff Names Men Who Killed Father", New York Times, November 27, 1914.
^ ^a ^b Mike Dash (2009). The First Family: Terror, Extortion, Revenge, Murder, and the Birth of the ... Random House. ISBN 978-1-58836-863-8. The chicken racket in West Washington Market, which cost Barnet Baff his life, was estimated to be worth at least one hundred thousand dollars a year, and a few years later the artichoke racket—a major source of income for Italian gangs ...
^ Theodore Dreiser (1920). Hey rub-a-dub-dub: a book of the mystery and wonder and terror of life. Boni and Liveright. One Barnet Baff, wholesale chicken merchant in New York City, was murdered because he would not enter upon a scheme with other chicken-wholesalers to fix prices and extort a higher profit from the public. Secondary executors, but not primary instigators or murderers, were caught and electrocuted.
^ "Death Verdict in Baff Plot". The Sun. New York, New York, United States of America. Jul 28, 1917. p. 1.

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