page_title: Johnny Torrio
hierarchical_section_title: Johnny Torrio
caption_attribution_description: English: John Torrio leaving the federal court house in New York during his trial.
context_page_description: John "Papa Johnny" Torrio, also known as "The Fox" was an Italian-American mobster who helped make the criminal empire known as the Chicago Outfit in the 1920s. Torrio would later give the Chicago Outfit to Al Capone. He also thought of the National Crime Syndicate in the 1930s and later became an adviser to the Genovese crime family.
  He was shot several times in 1925. He died of a heart attack in Brooklyn in 1957.
context_section_description: John "Papa Johnny" Torrio, also known as "The Fox" (February 1882 – April 16, 1957) was an Italian-American mobster who helped make the criminal empire known as the Chicago Outfit in the 1920s. Torrio would later give the Chicago Outfit to Al Capone. He also thought of the National Crime Syndicate in the 1930s and later became an adviser to the Genovese crime family.
  He was shot several times in 1925. He died of a heart attack in Brooklyn in 1957.
caption: Johnny Torrio in 1939
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