February 24: “Bill the Butcher” Poole February 24, 2014 by gwmainClick image to expandFebruary 24Nativist 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.
