"Mad Dog" Floyd Banner was an American Prohibition-era gangster and bootlegger from Chicago who became partners with the Bondurant brothers of Virginia in 1931.
Biography[]
Floyd Banner was born in Chicago, Illinois, and he became a feared Prohibition-era gangster who, by the 1930s, had become well-known by the nickname "Mad Dog" due to his murderous nature. He was once wanted for a triple murder in his hometown, where he engaged in the local beer wars. In 1931, he came to Rocky Mount, Franklin County, Virginia, the "Moonshine Capital of the World", and gunned down two ATU agents in their car in broad daylight, a spectacle witnessed by Jack Bondurant of the moonshining Bondurant brothers. Banner later met with the brothers and became business partners with them, helping them kill two of US Marshal Charley Rakes' henchmen who had wounded Forrest Bondurant and raped his lover Maggie Mae Harris, and helping them install several large stills in the woods of the Blue Ridge foothills to increase their profitability.
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