Happy Harry Maione by Ace Preston 1942

Harry "Happy" Maione served as a hitman for Murder, Inc. He was always happy.
In Ocean Hill Brooklyn, as a young man he led the Ocean Hill Hooligans, an Italian street gang. His protegee was Frank "Dasher" Abbandando, both were sexual predators. Maione's son was Albert Maione. who became an associate with the Gambino crime family.
In 1931, Maione and Abbandando aided Abe "Kid Twist" Reles and Martin Goldstein to eliminate their gangster rivals, the Shapiro Brothers. The Shapiros had unsuccessfully tried to murder Reles and Goldstein. They even abducted Reles' girlfriend and raped her.
On 7/11/31, Irving Shapiro was gunned down near his apartment. On 9/17/31, Meyer was found shot to death in the basement of a tenement building on Manhattan's Lower East Side.
Maione, Abbandando, Reles, and Goldstein were soon joined by Harry "Pittsburgh Phil" Strauss, Emanuel "Mendy" Weiss, Albert "Tick Tock" Tannenbaum, Seymour "Blue Jaw" Magoon, Louis Capone, Charles "The Bug" Workman, Cooper "Danger" McCue, Tyler "Boy" Winchester, and Vito "Socko" Gurino.
The gang started picking up murder contracts from the National Crime Syndicate with the help of Syndicate Board Member Joe Adonis. The gang soon became the official murder-for-hire squad of the Syndicate, and was dubbed "Murder, Inc." by the press. Maione acted as the Italian liaison to the Jewish members of Murder Inc.; Reles was his counterpart on the Jewish side. Murder Inc was directed by the brutal Louis "Lepke" Buchalter and the nefarious Albert "Mad Hatter" Anastasia. Maione reportedly killed at least 12 men himself while working for Murder, Inc
In the mid-1930s, New York District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey targeted Buchalter for prosecution. In response, Buchalter started eliminating all potential witnesses. Murder, Inc., rubbed out anyone that Buchalter even suspected of being an informant. Loan shark George Rudnick was one such victim; he was killed by Maione, Abbandando, and Strauss on 5/11/37.
In 1940, Reles became an informant for the State of New York. He then implicated Maione in the horrific slaying of Rudnick. According to Reles, the men supposedly killed Rudnick and started stuffing him back in their car. Suddenly, the "corpse" started coughing. To finish him off, Strauss stabbed Rudnick with an ice pick and Maione buried a meat cleaver in his skull.
In May 1940, Maione was convicted of first degree murder, but the verdict was overturned on appeal. After a second trial, Maione was convicted again. On 2/19/42, Harry Maione was executed in the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York.