April 24, 1965

Owen Vincent “Owney” Madden, a gangster and underworld boss in New York City in the 1920s who retired to Hot Springs (Garland County) in the 1930s, died of emphysema about a year after the state government took its first decisive steps to shut down illegal gambling and prostitution operations in Hot Springs.

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