DomainArticle in Journal
Title"Who Killed Meyer Hasenfus? Organized Crime, Policing and Informing on the Witwatersrand, 1902-8"
AuthorVan Onselen, Charles
Journal TitleHistory Workshop Journal
Journal Vol67
Journal Vol Issue67:1
Publication Date2009
Start-End Page1 — 22
Number Of Pages22 p.
Era Covered1902 — 1908
LanguageEnglish
ISSN1363-3554
Subject Classification
PlaceLondon
Country
NotesThe development of organised crime (particularly prostitution) by Russo-Polish gangsters. After the Boer War the arrival of London Irish, Cockneys and Jews led to conflict with the established gangsters and the murder of Hasenfus (a police informer).
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