Largely active in Manhattan's Lower East Side, the group were widely known as the cities top pickpockets and sneak thieves during the "Gay Nineties" period.
Simon Erenstoft, also known as "Crazy Butch", was supposedly orphaned at age 8, abandoned by his parents in Manhattan, where he began pickpocketing.
As a group had gathered to watch the argument the other gang members would pickpocket the crowd.
Then they would meet back at their headquarters on Forsyth Street on Manhattan's Lower East Side to divide up the money.
The gang broke up when Crazy Butch was killed by Harry the Soldier in a gunfight over a female shoplifter known as the Darby Kid.