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Gus Winkler (August Henry Winkeler) was born on 28 March, 1901 in Lemay, Missouri, is an American mobster (1901–1933). Discover Gus Winkler's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 32 years old?

Popular As August Henry Winkeler
Occupation Gangster, Criminal
Age 32 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 28 March 1901
Birthday 28 March
Birthplace Lemay, Missouri
Date of death 9 October, 1933
Died Place Chicago, Illinois
Nationality United States

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1862

Winkler was born August Henry Winkeler to Bernard J. Winkeler (September 28, 1862- November 23, 1928) and Mary K. (June 1, 1862- March 5, 1923) in Lemay, Missouri; he was a brother to Clara (April 21, 1895 – June 23, 1987), Jacob C. (1893-1961) and Anna C. (1890-1960).

1901

Gus Winkler (March 28, 1901 – October 9, 1933) was an American gangster who headed a Prohibition-era criminal gang specializing in armed robbery and murder for hire with Fred "Killer" Burke.

Winkler was a senior associate of Chicago Outfit boss Al Capone and is considered a suspect in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.

Winkler is believed to be the first member of the National Crime Syndicate to be murdered for talking to the FBI.

1917

In September 1917, at the age of 16, Winkler enlisted in the U.S. Army Ambulance Corps and served on the Western Front with the 91st Infantry Division.

After his return to America, Winkler joined up with the notorious Egan's Rats gang.

It was during this time that he first became associated with Fred "Killer" Burke and Bob Carey, among others.

1923

Winkler later confessed to his wife Georgette to participating in the "one-way ride" murder of auto thief Wesley Smith in July 1923.

1924

After the heart of the Egan gang went to prison for mail robbery in November 1924, Winkler and his pals signed on with the South City-based Cuckoo Gang.

1925

Winkler, Burke, and Milford Jones were captured in downtown St. Louis on June 5, 1925 after a high-speed chase and shootout with the St. Louis police.

Within a year and a half, Winkler moved to Detroit and briefly aligned himself with the Purple Gang that was under control of Abe Bernstein.

After arousing the ire of Al Capone by kidnapping a Detroit gambler, Winkler and his pals hired out for freelance work from Capone and the Chicago Outfit in exchange for releasing the gambler unharmed.

Capone and Winkler cultivated a close friendship and the Chicago mob boss used Gus and his friends (Fred Burke, Bob Carey, Raymond "Crane Neck" Nugent and Fred Goetz) for special assignments.

Capone jokingly referred to the men as his "American Boys."

1928

Circumstantial evidence and testimony from Georgette Winkeler indicates that Winkler and his crew may have participated in the July 1928 murder of Brooklyn gangster Frankie Yale and the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.

The American Boys were also implicated in the murder of Toledo police officer George Zientara on April 16, 1928, who was shot dead in the aftermath of an American Express armored truck heist.

Winkler himself enjoyed Capone's complete confidence, even after Fred Burke was publicly named as a suspect in the massacre and the discovery of the murder weapons.

Winkler often told people that he worked as a 'contractor' which might have played on the undertone of the word and his career as a contract killer.

The fallout from the Valentine's Day massacre proved to be the undoing of the American Boys as an Outfit sub-group.

Fred Burke was eventually captured and imprisoned for the first degree murder of Police Officer Charles Skelly in St. Joseph, Michigan, Bob Carey was exiled from Chicago after attempting to blackmail a friend of Capone's, and Crane Neck Nugent vanished without a trace.

1930

While in his hospital bed, Winkler was accused of planning and taking part in the September 1930 robbery of US$2 million from a bank in Lincoln, Nebraska.

While Winkler hadn't done the robbery, he knew who did and claimed he could convince the actual thieves to turn over the loot.

After this assurance, Capone reluctantly put up Winkler's $100,000 cash bond.

After his release, Winkler did indeed deliver as promised.

By the next year, Gus Winkler had carved out a lucrative position as the Outfit's boss of the former territory of Bugs Moran's North Side Gang, after Teddy Newberry requested his assistance.

1931

Gus Winkler, along with St. Louis gangster John "Babs" Moran, was severely injured in a car accident in Berrien County, Michigan on August 3, 1931.

While Winkler survived, the crash cost him one of his eyes.

The beginning of the end for Gus Winkler began upon Capone's 1931 imprisonment for tax evasion.

With Frank Nitti now in charge of the Outfit, Winkler was left taking orders from Italian-American gangsters who didn't trust him.

Nitti and other more old school Outfit mobsters had never agreed with Capone's decision to assign positions of trust and authority to non-Italian gangsters like Gus Winkler.

1932

After Teddy Newberry paid for Nitti to be shot and nearly killed by Chicago Police Department Detective Harry Lang in December 1932, fellow gangster Ralph Pierce plied Newberry with alcohol until he admitted the truth about his own involvement.

In response, Nitti ordered Newberry's murder.

Angered by Winkler's insistence on subtracting pensions for his deceased crew members families from North Side Outfit street taxes, Nitti demoted Winkler and put Ralph Pierce in charge of the North Side instead.

1933

In the summer of 1933, Gus Winkler was observed making visits to the Bankers Building office of FBI Special Agent in Charge Melvin Purvis.

When the news reached him, Nitti was enraged.

In reality, Winkler, who had been infuriated by the unnecessary violence of the Kansas City Massacre, was helping the FBI's manhunt for fugitive perpetrator Verne Miller.

To Nitti, however, talking to the Feds about anything at all was a death penalty offense.

On the afternoon of October 9, 1933, while entering the beer distribution office of Charles Weber at 1414 Roscoe Street, Winkler was hit by a number of shotgun blasts fired by unknown assailants hidden in the back of a green delivery truck.

Winkler died a half-an-hour later after arriving at a local hospital.

He was buried at Park Lawn Cemetery in St. Louis.