The Chief and the King

The story of the intersecting lives of Tom Brown, Chief of Police, MBE, and Rocco Perri, King of the Mob, in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 1908-1944.

This is the story of my great-grandfather, Tom Brown, MBE, 1877-1952, Chief of Police in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 1938-1944, and his intersecting life with Rocco Perri, “King of the Mob”, “The Whisky King”, founder of the Canadian mafia, who lived in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Thank you to the invaluable original research conducted by

• James Dubro, author of King of the Mob: Rocco Perri and the Women Who Ran His Rackets.
• Trevor Cole, author of The Whisky King: The remarkable true story of Canada’s most infamous bootlegger and the undercover Mountie on his trail.
• Antonio Nicaso, author of Rocco Perri: The Story of Canada’s Most Notorious Bootlegger

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