 A tough-looking man with wiry limbs and a broken nose, MacGinnis is a New York gang leader who appears in "The Little Nugget", hot on the trail of his frequent kidnapping target Ogden Ford.He had, according to Ford himself, previously attempted to kidnap the boy in 1907, in Chicago.MacGinnis has a strong Bowery accent and a taste for mail-order suits, and despite a sizeable gang often seems keen on taking on a partner, as Peter Burns learns when MacGinnis mistakes him for "Smooth" Sam Fisher.