Unbelievable Story Of Chicago May- The Irish Queen Of Mafia

Story about Chicago May is the story of a runaway Irish teenage, who became a serial criminal, acted on two continents, she married the money, opened safety boxes with explosives and was romantically involved with some of the most famous personalities of Irish-American underworld. Because of her "achievements” she become a star of the British press, and a year before her death, in 1929, she published a memoir about his criminal past.

Chicago May

Born in 1870 as Mary Ann Deignan, Chicago May was one of the most notorious criminals of Irish immigrants and at the late 19th and early 20th century, she operated in the United States.

May still had 20 when she stole the family's savings and fled to Liverpool, where she bought a ticket for America.

Arriving in the United States, she soon slipped into the underworld and met several celebrities from the entertainment world. They have learned her a variety of tricks and skills, which she would later use in her long criminal career.

Entertained with a few criminals, and has managed to seduce and one aristocrat and officers, of whom she divorced after a few months, with check of $ 10,000. Because of her criminal record, the New York police issued a warrant for her arrest and fled to London.

Fatal love with mobster

In 1900 she met a young Irish mobster Eddie Gerin. Their relationship began when May went to the World Fair in Paris, in search of rich potential victims.

Gerin was the main architect of the planned theft at "American Express" in Paris. Gerin and May using the large amount of explosives blew up the safe. Because of this theft, Gerin, however, arrested and sentenced to prison. May pulled out and returned to London in search for money for his liberation.

As she tried to deliver Gerin false documents, May went to jail, but was soon released. Then she got in touch with a man named Charlie Smith. Not surprisingly, Eddie Gerin did not like the news of their affair after he escaped from a French prison and returned to London in 1907.

Before he was able to take revenge, Smith killed him. And Smith and Chicago May were immediately arrested, and the shooting happened in broad daylight at Russell Square in front of two uniformed policemen.

May was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for attempted murder and served 10 years before being deported to the United States, where she work as a prostitute for whole her life. Her memoirs reveal her life path of runaway teens to superior thieves.

There are many myths about this strange women and their contacts with the famous mobsters of that time. Some claim she was involved in several murders that never was resolved. Whatever the real truth is, Chicago May remains the most fascinating women of the US crime.