Today in New Jersey history:
February 27, 1959: With federal agents closing in on him on tax evasion charges, Abner “Longy” Zwillman was found hanged in his West Orange home. Born in 1904 in Newark, Zwillman rose in the gangster world of t...he Prohibition era to become the one of New Jersey’s best known mobsters. His death was officially labeled as a suicide, but some thought he had been murdered by other criminals.
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