Killing of Jacob Mackler and attacks on the Hogan gang was a Indian Wars and Frontier Conflicts engagement fought in Missouri, 1923.
The shooting of Jacob Mackler, an attorney associated with the Hogan Gang, together with repeated gun attacks on the home of leader Edward 'Jelly Roll' Hogan, marked the climactic phase of the Egan's Rats-Hogan war before a truce ended the bloodshed. By early 1923 the two organizations had traded killings for more than a year, and the Rats under Colbeck struck at figures around Hogan's operation as the conflict reached its most intense point. The machine-gun attacks on Hogan's residence and the killing of associates like Mackler demonstrated the escalation of firepower in the St. Louis underworld. The mounting toll, roughly a dozen dead across the war, and the risk of destruction to both sides finally produced a peace agreement in the spring of 1923, ending open warfare between the gangs.
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