Career
He became an informant during the late 1930s, and was killed along with Isadore Friedman shortly before they were to testify against Buchalter. He later killed him while under police escort outside the Essex Market Court House in lower Manhattan on August 28, 1923. Immediately arrested by police, he was subsequently convicted of Dropper’s murder and sentenced to 20–25 years imprisonment at Sing Sing Prison.
Released on parole in 1937, he was gunned down on January 28, 1939.
