[1] Members of the gang were sentenced to the Industrial School for stealing clothes.
On December 14, 1866, Lazarus Moses was arrested for selling clothes stolen by the Hoodlum Band.
[3] An article in The New York Times of July 26, 1877, stated: "People who sack Chinese houses and stone Chinamen are not workingmen.
The hoodlum class think this is a good time to signify their hatred of law and order.
Possible explanations include: Dennis Kearney's rally call to "huddle 'em up", organizing unemployed Irishmen prior to attacking and looting Chinese people and businesses;[5] a derivation from the Swabian word hudelum ("disorderly") or the Bavarian Haderlump ("ragamuffin");[6][7] or derived from a gang named Hood's Boys, named after Hood's Saloon, the gang's base of operations in San Francisco.