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Also before he was shot dead-on the staircase of the tony Grand Central Hotel in 1872, lender David “Jubilee Jim” Fisk, Jr., was a known Nyc number. From his audacious make an effort to corner the gold market in 1869 to his fight for control of the geographically essential Erie Train, Fisk was a showy exemplar of the new economic period marked by unparalleled greed and unstable prospects and crime. However it was his scandalously available event with a showgirl named Josie Mansfield that eventually resulted in his demise. In this captivating brief history—the first in his National Pictures series—H. Watts.