Timothy D. "Big Tim" Murphy was a Chicago mobster and labor racketeer who controlled several major railroad, laundry and dye workers' unions during the 1910s and early 1920s.
(L:R) Murphy, Fred Mader, John Miller, and Cornelius Shea during their murder trial in 1922
The Chicago Outfit, also known as the Outfit, the Chicago Mafia, the Chicago Mob, the Chicago crime family, the South Side Gang or the Organization, is an Italian American Mafia crime family based in
Timothy D. Murphy
…of Chicago's most powerful early organized crime organizations. Murphy's gang was one of the few respected by Al Capone and the Italian American-led Chicago Outfit. A longtime rival of Maurice "Mossy" Enright, Murphy was suspected in his February 1920 gangland killing. Murphy was released due to lack of evidence…