Beginning as disruptive delinquents at Bishop School, and progressing to “students” of Detroit mobsters Charles Leiter and Henry Shorr, who ran the Oakland Sugar House, the group was first known as the Sugar House Boys or Sugar House Gang. The area, known as “Little Jerusalem,” was bordered by Gratiot Avenue, Brush Street, Willis Avenue and Russell Street. Led chiefly by the Burnstein (often misspelled Bernstein) brothers Raymond, Joseph, Isadore and Abraham - the Purple Gang was made up of immigrants from Detroit’s lower east side. The Purple Gang was Detroit’s most notorious organized crime gang in the 1920s and 1930s.
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