Victor Sickles (died January 1923) was the Sheriff of Tabor Heights, New Jersey during Prohibition.
Biography[]
Sickles' death
Victor Sickles was born in Tabor Heights, a small Methodist town in central New Jersey, and Sickles became the sheriff of the town's police department. Sickles accepted payoffs from Atlantic City boss Enoch Thompson to allow for his liquor convoys to refuel at the gas station, the last gas station between Atlantic City and New York City; he became acquainted with his brother, Eli Thompson, the sheriff of Atlantic County. Sickles was intimidated into allowing for Gyp Rosetti to block one of Thompson's convoys, and he wished Rosetti good luck as he left town the next day. However, Rosetti had previously been angered when Thompson had wished him good luck, believing it to be sarcastic and condescending, making it out to be an insult. When Sickles wished him good luck, Rosetti took the gas pump and shot oil at Sickles, making him slip and fall. Rosetti proceeded to throw his cigarette lighter at Sickles as he squirmed on the ground, engulfing him in flames and killing him.