Cormac+Baltasar+Kane



Cormac Baltasar Kane was the son of second generation Irish Immigrant Liam Keenan Kane and second generation German immigrant Helga Grünwald. His grandparents immigrated to St. Louis in 1842. He was born in 1874 in St. Louis. His father owned and operated a successful brewery, Kane & Grünwald Ales and Lager, with his business partner and brother-in-law Niklas Grünwald. The brewery was located on 8 acres on the edge of St. Louis. At age 19 Cormac began to work for his father and by 22 he was traveling around the United States, promoting the beer and negotiating contracts. Business was great in 1904 when St. Louis hosted the Louisiana Purchase Exposition along with the Olympic games. Cormac took control of the brewery in 1911 when his father died. He shortened the name to Kane Ales & Lager in 1917 due to increased anti-German sentiment and continued to operate the brewery until prohibition, when operations ceased. Having lived his entire life in the brewing business Cormac saw no other way of making a living, so he began to produce moonshine in the caves beneath the old brewery. It was not long before Cormac became involved with organized crime, selling his moonshine to speakeasies in and around St. Louis and even opening up a speakeasy of his own. Cormac became a member of Egan's Rats, the largest gang in St. Louis, in 1920. He became known as "The Brewser". In 1924 Egan's Rats collapsed and without their protection the police raided his moonshine brewery. Luckily, Cormac escaped and joined a crew of former Egan's Rats members headed by Fred "Killer" Burke. They traveled around the midwest committing robbery, kidnapping, and contract murders. In 1929 Al Capone needed some help taking out the North Side Gang of Chicago. He called on Fred 'Killer" Burke. On February 14,1929 Burke and Cormac, disguised as policemen with sawed off shotguns, entered the SMC Cartage warehouse along with two of Capone's men. They fired over 100 rounds into seven members of the North Side Gang and then escaped in a fake police car. At this point, the Chicago police declared war upon organized crime and Cormac split from Burke. Cormac traveled east and laid low, he even married a vaudeville actress. Cormac abused his wife and in 1934 she left him for vaudeville actor Pietro Vincenzo. Cormac pursued them, murdering Pietro with his sawed off Winchester Model 12 shotgun.

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