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Leader of the ā€œUntouchablesā€ Eliot Ness, 1936.

Eliot Ness

American crime fighter
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Eliot Ness (born April 19, 1903, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.ā€”died May 16, 1957, Coudersport, Pennsylvania) was an American crime fighter, head of a nine-man team of law officers called the ā€œUntouchables,ā€ who opposed Al Caponeā€™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...

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