sent word to him that he wasn't going to do any business in Albany and we didn't expect to see him in town the next morning. He never started anything here. Prior brought him around here [...] but brought him around once too often. Fitzpatrick finished Legs. O'Connell added that William Fitzpatrick (a police sergeant at the time and later chief) and Diamond were "sitting in the same room and (Fitzpatrick) followed him out. Fitzpatrick told him he'd kill him if he didn't keep going. Given the power that the O'Connell machine held in Albany and its determination to prevent organized crime, other than their own, from establishing itself in the city and threatening their monopoly of vice, some accept this account of the story. For those believing this theory, Fitzpatrick's promotion to Chief of Police is said to have been a reward for executing Diamond. In 1945, Chief Fitzpatrick himself was shot and killed in his own office by John McElveney, an Albany police detective. Detective McElveney was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison. He was released in 1957 when his sentence was commuted by Governor W. Averell Harriman. On December 23, 1931, Jack Diamond was buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Maspeth, Queens. There was no church service or graveside ceremony. Family and spectators numbering 200 attended Diamond's interment; no criminal figures were spotted. On July 1, 1933, Diamond's widow, Alice Kenny Diamond (age 33), was found shot to death in her Brooklyn apartment. It was speculated that she was shot by Diamond's enemies to keep her quiet. See also List of unsolved deaths In popular culture Released on February 3, 1960, the film The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond was directed by director Budd Boetticher and stars Ray Danton and Warren Oates. The film was nominated for AFI's Top 10 Gangster Films list. On October 20, 1960, Diamond was played by Steven Hill in the episode "Jack 'Legs' Diamond" of the ABC crime drama The Untouchables starring Robert Stack. The 1963 Looney Tunes short The Unmentionables features an appearance by "Jack 'Legs' Rhinestone," who is shown to feature a pair of ladylike legs. His last name is a reference to the diamond simulant of the same name. A Terry Gilliam animation sequence from the British TV show Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969-1973) features a gangster chicken by the name of "Eggs" Diamond. The first