As a union official, Gohl used his reputation and intimidating size to discourage strikes and 'recruit' new union members. In 1905 during the great waterfront strike Gohl was charged with 'assembling men under arms' and is also alleged to have forcibly abducted non-union crewmen from the schooner Fearless for which he was fined $1,250 in the Superior Court. Already an accomplished criminal, Gohl was suspected of being responsible for many of the large numbers of deceased that were found washed up on shore during his tenure as a bartender, as well as a number of other crimes. Before this he had been employed as a bartender after returning broke from the.
Occupation and murders Gohl was employed as a union official at the.
