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Harry Davis (gangster)
Harry Davis (born 1898 in Romania,〔D’Arcy O’Connor, ''Montreal’s Irish Mafia: the True Story of the Infamous West End Gang''(Mississauga: John Wiley and Sons ,2011),33.〕 died on July 25, 1946 in Montreal〔L.W. Conroy, “Gambler is Slain in Uptown ‘Book’: Ex-Convict Falls in Own Stanley Street Establishment in Early Evening,” The Montreal Gazette, July 26, 1946.〕) was a Montreal gangster and the city’s last "edge man" (a strictly Montreal term used to signify the go-between for gamblers, politicians and police, the ‘edge’ was the undisputed boss of all vice in the city) 〔Al Palmer, “Montreal Confidential: The Low down on the Big Town” (Montreal: Véhicule Press, 2009), 24.〕 back when the ‘Jewish Mafia’ ran the city.〔 Davis, a Jewish mobster, ran Montreal’s underworld for a year before he was shot to death in one of his betting emporiums at 1224 St. Catherine Street, by Louis Bercovitch (alias Joe Miller), a rival Jewish mobster.〔Suzanne Morton, “At odds : gambling and Canadians, 1919-1969” (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003), 158.〕 Although Montreal was the gambling capital of Canada 〔Magaly Brodeur, Vice et corruption à Montreal: 1892-1970 (Quebec : Presses de l’Université du Québec, 2011),30.〕 and known as a ‘wide open city’ across North America,〔Nancy Marrelli, “Stepping out : the golden age of Montreal night clubs, 1925-1955” (Montreal: Véhicule Press, 2004), 30.〕 Davis’ death shocked the public. It acted as a wake up call for the masses of society in that it showed them, for the first time in almost a decade, that vice and organized crime in Montreal was real. Public opinion and an increasingly involved press put pressure on the police to begin taking real action against vice within the city.〔Pierre de Champlain, “Le crime organisé à Montréal, 1940-1980” (Hull: Éditions Asticou, 1986),42.〕
Fernand Dufresnse, the chief of police, publicly denounced and fired Captain Arthur Taché, the head of the Morality squad (the police division which was in charge of dealing with institutionalized vice within the city), in order to avoid a judicial inquiry into the matter.〔William Weintraub, “City Unique,: Montreal days and nights in the 1940s and ‘50s” (Toronto: Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1996), 72.〕 Shortly after Taché was fired, Dufresne hired Pacifique “Pax” Plante, a not very well known lawyer, to lead the Morality Squad.〔William Weintraub, “City Unique,: Montreal days and nights in the 1940s and ‘50s” (Toronto: Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1996), 72,73.〕 Plante would lead a crusade against organized crime and institutionalized vice in Montreal. Even after he was fired from his position as head of the Morality Squad in 1948,〔Pierre de Champlain, “Le crime organisé à Montréal, 1940-1980” (Hull: Éditions Asticou, 1986),49, 50,80.〕 he continued to target vice and organized crime through his newspaper column, “Sous le règne de la pègre” in Le Devoir.Plante worked in conjunction with Gérald Pelletier writing daily articles for Le Devoir with the intent to inform and mobilize the public against organized crime.〔Magaly Brodeur, Vice et corruption à Montreal: 1892-1970 (Quebec : Presses de l’Université du Québec, 2011),48.〕 Consequently, his articles drew massive public support and resulted in an increase in public demands to end vice within the city.〔 By 1950 it had become clear that the public were willing to back Plante in his crusade against corruption. In 1950 he teamed up with Jean Drapeau to launch the Caron Inquiry, the city’s largest inquiry of the twentieth century on organized crime.〔
==Early life==
Harry Davis, a Romanian émigré, arrived in Montreal in the 1920s.〔 Davis, like most immigrants, was poor and he spent his early years working long hours doing various jobs for cash.〔J.E. Thomson, “ Immigrant Boy’s Night Life Career Lead to Narcotics, Prison, Racketeering.” The Montreal Gazette, July 26, 1946.〕 By the age of twenty-eight he had saved up enough money to begin investing in cafés and nightclubs.〔 Davis first made his mark in Montreal’s underworld when he opened a betting emporium in the heart of the city, at 1224 Stanley Street.〔D’Arcy O’Connor, “Montreal’s Irish Mafia: the True Story of the Infamous West End Gang”(Mississauga: John Wiley and Sons ,2011),34.〕 Davis’ betting emporium offered blackjack, barbotte (a dice game unique to Quebec), roulette, baccarat, and continental wide horse betting to its visitors.〔 To increase profits, Davis and his colleagues would front gamblers large sums of money with ridiculously high interest rates.〔 Davis soon became the ‘edge man’ in the late 1920s.〔 At the time gambling was illegal,〔Magaly Brodeur, Vice et corruption à Montreal: 1892-1970 (Quebec : Presses de l’Université du Québec, 2011),2.〕 however the edge paid off the police force so that gambling institutions would be able to continue to prosper in Montreal.〔William Weintraub, “City Unique,: Montreal days and nights in the 1940s and ‘50s” (Toronto: Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1996), 59-87.〕
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