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Sigmund "Seymour" Magoon (April 21, 1908, New York City – after 1950), known as "Blue Jaw", was an American hitman in New York's Murder, Inc. gang, one of many members who were implicated by the testimony of former member and government informant Abe "Kid Twist" Reles.

A longtime member of Murder, Inc., Magoon was heavily involved in the painters' unions with Martin "Buggsy" Goldstein during the 1920s and 1930s. Magoon helped testify against the other members of Murder, Inc., along with Albert "Tick Tock" Tannenbaum and Sholem Bernstein.

Magoon had been born to a middle-class Jewish family, son to Phillip Magoon and Annie Levinson Magoon, both of whom reported on their 1905 New York City marriage certificate that they were born in "Russia". His uncle Bernard, a physician, reported their family had immigrated to the US from Vilna (now Vilnius, Lithuania) around 1892 His paternal grandfather Berman (Bearman) Benjamin Magoon had also been a barber (then an unofficial sort of physician or surgeon) in London.

He married Lillian Smolensky in 1933. He was a fish wholesaler in Chicago in 1950, although it is unclear when and where he and his wife died and were buried. At least one of their children eventually changed the spelling of their surname, as per their tombstone.

Cultural reference

• The U.S. TV series Las Vegas season 3 episode 4, is titled "Whatever Happened to Seymour Magoon?"

References

1. "Money Lender Slain; Competitor Seized; Victim of Shooting in 1932 Is Held in Murder of Rival at Door of Home". The New York Times. October 24, 1934.(subscription required)
2. "National Archives at St. Louis; St. Louis, Missouri; Wwii Draft Registration Cards For New York City, 10/16/1940 - 03/31/1947; Record Group: Records of the Selective Service System, 147 Source Information Ancestry.com. U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011". Ancestry.com. Ancestry.com. Retrieved August 22, 2024.
3. "Obituary for Dr. Bernard A. Magoon". No. Brooklyn, New York. Times Union. April 13, 1931. Retrieved August 22, 2024.
4. "Ancestry.com. U.S., Passport Applications, 1795-1925 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007. Original data: Selected Passports. National Archives, Washington, D.C." Ancestry.com. Ancestry.com. Retrieved August 22, 2024.
5. 1950 United States Federal Census

External links

• Kill The Dutchman! - The Story of Dutch Schultz - Chapter XX by Paul Sann

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