February 24: “Bill the Butcher” Poole February 24, 2013 by gwmain Click image to expand February 24 Nativist gang leader “Bill the Butcher” Poole, whose life would form the basis for the Daniel Day-Lewis character of William Cutting in the movie “Gangs of New York,” was fatally shot by a rival-gang member at a bar on Broadway on this day in 1855.
