Llewellyn Morris Humphreys aka "Murray The Hump"
Say the words “American gangster” and your mind invariably turns to criminals like Al Capone, Pretty Boy Floyd or John Dillinger. But one of the most successful of all gangsters – perhaps because he lived to a ripe old age – was actually a man of Welsh descent.
His real name was Llewellyn Morris Humphreys and for many years, under the assumed name or nickname of Murray the Hump, he was one of the most powerful men in the whole Chicago underworld.
Murray the Hump’s parents came from Carno, a few miles outside Newtown, having been married in the Methodist chapel at Llanidloes. However, the final years of the nineteenth century were difficult for the small Welsh farming community and the young couple found it hard to make a living on their isolated hilltop farm. Reports BBC. To read the rest Click here: BBC – Wales History: Murray the Hump, Welsh gangster
