The Marginals, also called the "Paddy Irish" gang, was a New York street gang during the early 1900s which, under stevedore Thomas F. "Tanner" Smith, succeeded the longtime Hudson Dusters in their territory of New York's Lower West Side.
Based between Tenth and Ninth Avenues, the gang emerged around the turn of the century involved in extortion and labor slugging.
On the night of June 18, 1914, Smith was arrested by police, who were investigating reports of four gunshots.
Although the two arresting patrolman were confronted by members of the gang, they were able to take him into custody and he was charged with felonious assault.
After driving out the rival Hudson Dusters and the Pearl Buttons, the Marginals enjoyed a brief reign ruling over the Lower East Side until the death of Tanner, who was killed by George "Chicky" Lewis (although other newspaper accounts credit Rubber Shaw) at the Marginal Club on Eighth Avenue on July 26, 1919.