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Eliot Ness

American crime fighter
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April 19, 1903, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
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May 16, 1957, Coudersport, Pennsylvania (aged 54)

Eliot Ness (born April 19, 1903, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.—died May 16, 1957, Coudersport, Pennsylvania) was an American crime fighter, head of a nine-man team of law officers called the “Untouchables,” who opposed Al Capone’s underworld network in Chicago. A graduate of the University of Chicago, Ness was 26 when, in 1929, he was hired as a special agent of the U.S. Department of Justice to head the Prohibition bureau in Chicago, with the express purpose of investigating and harassing Al Capone. Because the men, all in their 20s, whom he hired to help him were extremely dedicated and unbribable, they ...(100 of 236 words)

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