George Musey

Prior to his conviction, Musey and The Downtown Gang had developed a rivalry with other bootleggers, notably the Beach Gang and their successors, the Maceo Crime Syndicate. On the night of July 25, 1935, Musey was talking with a member of the Maceo Syndicate at The Alamo Club on 24th St., Galveston. Informed by a waiter that there was somebody outside who wished to see him, Musey made his way to the door, at which point he was shot five times with a .38 revolver by O.J. Windy Goss, a Maceo mob member. Musey was buried at Old Catholic Cemetery in Galveston, Texas survived by his wife Mary, and two children, Margaret and George Jr.

George Musey, also known as "one-armed George Musey", was a mob boss in Galveston, Texas, during the Prohibition era. Along with Johnny Jack Nounes, he led the Downtown Gang, one of two gangs which controlled the Galveston underworld until the early 1930s. He was convicted on conspiracy liquor charges in 1929 and sent to Atlanta Penitentiary. Musey was shot and killed in 1935, eight days after his 35th birthday.

With prohibition now in effect, Musey quickly gained a reputation for brutality which, along with bribery of local police, saw him dominate the local black market. Musey was arrested by federal agents in Louisiana during a liquor run. He, Nounes, and twenty-one others, would be tried and convicted on conspiracy liquor charges in 1929.

George Musey was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana, one of five children to Jamial and Sally Musey, who had emigrated from Syria in the 1890s. The family moved to Houston, Texas, in the 1910s, and later to Galveston. Musey worked for a time as a mechanic in his father's auto shop. As Prohibition came into effect, Musey is considered to have started associating with Nounes, with whom he soon formed a gang.