Vincent “Mad Dog” Coll’s war against Dutch Schultz escalated in early 1931 as he hijacked Schultz’s beer trucks and sold the stolen goods at a discount to bar owners. He made a killing off this scheme, all while ruthlessly burning down one of Schultz’s warehouses filled with bootleg beer. Coll’s tactics—kidnapping rival gangsters for ransom and assassinating Schultz’s key associates—only made him more feared and destructive, to the point where Schultz offered a sum of money to police officers to kill Coll. However, even the police were too intimidated by Coll’s brutal reputation to take up the offer. Ultimately, Coll’s gang was determined to outmuscle Schultz and take over New York, no matter the cost.