Chapter 8 fourth quarter

One day I heard in the papers that Frank Lapuma, who was with me in the Irish Gang, had been killed by some of the artichoke king Kiro Telanava's men.Not long after, Hagen, a Dutchman who was also part of the Irish gang, entered Xinxin and was sentenced to 20 years in prison.This is what happens when you like to play with guns!He wounded a policeman and wounded himself.I went to see him in the prison hospital and we talked about the past. I said, "If only you would listen to me." "I know," he said, "you're right, Joseph." I couldn't believe what he said next. "They betrayed you," he said.I said I don't understand what you are talking about. "They have reached an agreement," he said, "on the condition that the two Italians, you and Frank, will be killed by the people of Chiro Telanava." Hagen, the Dutchman, told me to be more careful, since they could Get rid of Frank Lapuma and get rid of me.But I didn't take it to heart, I thought Xinxin should be safe.

I'm wrong. Just days after that conversation, Wallachi was stabbed in his own cell by fellow inmate Pete Ratampa.The knife was inserted through the left back, all the way to the bottom of the heart, and nearly killed Wallach.A total of 38 stitches were used to suture the wound.In order to leave a way out for himself, Wallachi did not say the name of Peter Ratampa.But Peter had a guilty conscience and voluntarily surrendered to the prison and was transferred to other prisons. Wallachi kept saying that Xinxin Prison was his school, which has two meanings.One was that he finally finished seventh grade there. "When I came out of Xinxin, I could already read and write. I mean, although they didn't teach us a lot of things, at least I could read and understand what I read. In my second Before entering Xinxin for the first time, I thought that the street signs on the street had to be a bit of a struggle. In fact, the real education I received there was about, how should I put it? About people, about human nature, or, in other words, about society. Actually It's about another society. Really, Sing Sing Prison is another society."

The greatest influence on Wallach was another inmate he met in prison, Alessandro Volleno, one of the most famous Italian gangsters in Brooklyn, New York in his early years, serving a life sentence for murder.But what really interested Wallach was that the man killed by Alexandra was the elder brother of Artichoke King Kiro Telanava.Alessandro told Wallach about the deep-rooted prejudice and hatred between the two factions of the Italian Mafia, the Neapolitans and the Sicilians.He said: "The first thing we Neapolitans have to remember is that you date a Sicilian for, let's say, 20 years and become a very tight buddy. But if one day you offend another Sicilian man, that buddy of yours is going to turn on you in no time. That is, never trust a Sicilian... come see me before you leave here and I'll send you to a Neapolitan whose name is Alphonse Cappelli, worked with me in Brooklyn and went to Chicago."

Valacci took a basic course in the Italian secret underworld with Alessandro Volleno.He later learned that this organization was called "Kosha Nostra".But when he tried to get to the bottom of it, Alessandro stopped and said, "Don't worry, boy, you'll understand everything in due time. You know, there are some things I can't tell you right now." On June 15, 1928, when Wallach "graduated" from Xinxin Prison for the second time, he encountered the same problem as last time: there was no "gang" to return to.Of the original Irish Seven (eight with Wallach), one hanged himself in prison, the second disappeared, the third was sent to the electric chair for killing a policeman, and the fourth , Frank Lapuma, was killed by the Artichoke King, and the other two died the most inexplicably, killing each other after drinking, leaving only Wallach and the Dutchman Hagen who was still in prison in Xinxin.

Although Alessandro Voleno gave him Capri's contact information, Valacci didn't want to go alone to the unfamiliar Chicago. He stayed in New York. The first thing I want to find out is what the Artichoke King is thinking, whether he is still planning to kill me.I went straight to his driver and bodyguard, Frank Livesey, and didn't beat around the bush, just honestly saying, "I just came out and wanted to know about your boss..." and so on and so forth.A few days later, Frank Livesey replied: "What you should do, others should do as well. The past is the past, and no one will return to those old accounts."

I went back to look for those partners on the 116 road back then, hey, I haven’t seen you for a few years, and everyone is promising, even if they didn’t sneak in, they were all under the name of a certain family, no one is still stealing and robbing Kind of deeds.I can't help it, my brother is in a lunatic asylum, and my parents have to rely on me to support them.I recruited a few more people, robbed three or two times a week, and could get about 1,500 US dollars, but on average, everyone didn't get much. At the beginning of 1929, Huo Zui was released from prison.He got in in 1927 for robbery.I told Huo Zui that I also wanted to join the gang, but he said it would have to wait.He said you just stay here and I'll make arrangements for you.

While I was waiting, two things happened.One was that my father died.That day I saw the old man mopping the floor in my room, so I gave him 10 yuan and said to buy a bottle of wine.When Kuozui came to see me in the evening, the old man was already lying on the floor drunk and unconscious, looking very funny.Huozui and I gesticulated and laughed for a while, carried him to the bed together and went out.When I came back in the middle of the night, the old man was still in the same posture as when I left, but with a ring of foam on his mouth.I hurried to the police station for an ambulance.It was late, and the old man never woke up when he was drunk. Gone at the age of 52.

Also, I have a regular girlfriend.Her name is Mei, and she works in the dance hall of Rainbow Garden on 125th Avenue. She is Jewish, pretty and gentle.We dated for six weeks, and one day she said out of the blue that she had rented an apartment in the Bronx and had ordered furniture.I said no, I don't even have a regular income.She said it was okay, she had a job.I said, "Okay, if you don't like it someday, you can just go back to your mother's house." May's best girlfriend is Frank Livesey's wife, and we walked around a lot and became good friends. ………… Huozui introduced me to Bobby Doyle.The bridge of his nose was collapsed, and it looked like he had been beaten in a fight.But he behaved politely and spoke very slowly.One day he asked me, "How about your guys?" Wait a minute, and asked if I could find six or seven nice guys as soon as possible, and I said no problem, I'll get you a dozen right away.He asked me about my relationship with Frank, Frank Livesey.I said, "He didn't say anything. Since I came out of Xinxin, I have relied on him to get everything done. Why do you ask?"

"It's okay, just ask." He said.But I can feel that he is not asking casually. Bobby Doyle is a Sicilian. I remembered what Alessandro Voleno said in Xinxin Prison, and I felt uneasy, so I went to find him.Kuozui said, "Where did you think you were? You still talk about it in what years. Those old disputes between the Neapolitans and the Sicilians have long been settled. Don't we all hang out together?" ………… After a while, Bobby suddenly said that he would take me to see Tom Cariano.At that time, I only knew that Tom was a famous person, but I didn't know that he was the second boss of the Rainer family.Tom was a heavyset man, slightly bald, and very well dressed and well behaved.He was a big businessman with several businesses in his hands, I don't know what else, but I knew he was also in construction because I had dealt with him once before.That time Tom said two boys from the so-and-so construction union were messing with him and sent me and a guy who was doing the robbery with me to go and fix it.Tom was going to pay me, and I said I wasn't looking for money, I just wanted him as a friend.It was important to me because I had to know some influential people to get out of stealing and robbery.You have to let others understand who you are as a man, so you can't ask for money.

I met Tom Cariano the other day, and he said, "There's turmoil in the air, and I'm afraid there's going to be trouble. I think it's about some of your enemies." I asked who, and he mentioned the artichoke king, Kiro Telanna Watt, and several other names.I said, "I will." He then asked me if I would kill for them, and I asked back, "Are your people willing to kill for me?" He said yes, and I said yes, too. I didn't know what was going to happen, I just felt that there must be a lot of trouble.But I have no choice, I must find another foothold as soon as possible.Robbery was out of the question, and the papers said the city government was considering putting radios on police cars.And the traffic lights, didn't they used to be turned off at three o'clock in the morning?Now to change to 24 hours bright.If I followed a police car and ran a red light, boy, just watch, there will be hundreds of cars chasing me in no time!

My trouble is, I don't like the Artichoke King, but if I'm against him, it's Frank Liversay.As expected, two days later, Bobby Doyle sent me my first "contract": to kill Frank Livesey.I said, "No, I can't take it." I secretly cursed Bobby for being a Sicilian.In fact, many years later, I also understand that it is not necessarily that Bobby is planning on me. The contracts in "Kosha Nostra" are all handed over to buddies, friends, and even relatives. First, it will not cause "targets" "; the second is that the boss wants to test whether you value him or your friends. Loyalty is what "Kosha Nostra" talks about most. I ran to Kozui and told him I couldn't be Frank.Huo Zui said, let's have a showdown with Bobby.Goku pays the bill and invites me and Bobby Doyle to Rainbow Garden.Kuozui talked for a long time, and I talked for a long time before Bobby said that he could understand.But he immediately pulled the mouth aside, and the two of them were whispering.I was very unhappy.When I asked him when he came back, he said, "It's okay, Bobby is just worried that you will report to Frank. I told him that this is on me." But I can't keep Frank completely in the dark.I told him that if one day I moved out of the Bronx, it would mean someone had looked for me.He understands what I mean.I waited until Kuozui smoothed things over and moved out.In the turbulent days that followed, when Frank and I walked across each other in the street, we nodded slightly and never spoke. The turmoil that Wallach mentioned refers to the New York Mafia annihilation in early 1930, which was called the Castle Rammon War within the "Kosha Nostra". In the following decades, although the American officials and police knew about the underworld coup and its significance in the history of the underworld, they were still unable to understand its ins and outs.The Wallach memorandum disclosed for the first time some specific details of this turmoil, although only fragmentary and partial. Before 1920, the Irish and Jewish gangs dominated the American underworld, and even the Poles were more influential than the Italians.The underworld organizations in Italy have always been small and troublesome, operating nothing more than the two traditional businesses of prostitution and gambling. The constitutional amendment passed in 1919, the prohibition of alcohol, became an opportunity for the rise of the Italian gang.Although all gangster organizations are targeting the black wine market, the Italians are uniquely blessed.This is not only because Italy is located in southern Europe, is rich in grapes, and has a well-developed brewing industry, but also, whether there is a prohibition or not, there are many Italians who immigrated to the United States to run family shochu workshops.With such a strong mass base, the Italian gangs grew rapidly by relying on the black wine business, and soon surpassed gangs of other ethnicities, becoming the leader in the underworld. There were also aggregations and separations within the Italian gangs. The Masseria family, which came from behind, squeezed Alphonse Capri, who had previously dominated Brooklyn, to Chicago.By the end of 1920, there were four mafia families in New York, ranked in order of strength from strong to weak: Masseria, Maranjano, Rhina, and Minlio. In fact, the division of the four major families is not very clear.Italians have a strong sense of rurality. Although the members of each family have their own affairs, they also have inextricable or implicit connections with the "villagers" in other families.People from the same region, town or even the same village form gangs within gangs similar to "citizen associations". Solammon Gang", the leader of the gang is Salvador, the owner of the Maranjano family. Maranjano was originally the second largest family, and Salvador Maranjano relied on the Casalamo gang to expand his power to other families, thus forming a threat to the first family, Masseria. The boss of the Masseria family is Joseph Masseria, known as Boss Joe.In order to stabilize his position, in early 1930, he planned to kill the Maranjano family and the Casolan Meng gang.From then on began the two-year-long Castle Rammon War. Underworld historians believe that the first shot in the Castle Rammun war was the murder of Thomas Reiner, the owner of the Reiner family.Boss Joe once tried to persuade Thomas to join his camp, but Thomas knew Boss Joe's nature well, and he figured out that his wishful thinking was nothing more than borrowing a knife to kill someone before crossing the river and demolishing the bridge.After Boss Joe was rejected, he sent his men to kill Thomas Rainer. (According to the records of the New York City Police Department: At 8:10 p.m. on February 26, 1930, Thomas Rainer was attacked by an unidentified male gunman when he left his office at 1522 Sheridan Road. The murderer was armed with an automatic rifle , fired two shots at the victim. Thomas Rhinner, male, white, 40 years old, home address: 3183 Luodanby Road, Bronx.) Years later, Thomas Rainer's daughter married Joseph Wallach. After Thomas Rainer's murder, Boss Joe sends his henchman Joseph Vinzolo to take over the Rainer family.Six months later, the family's former second boss, Tom Cariano, and several columnists, including Gietano Lucisa and the blunt Dominique Petriely, conspired to have Joseph Pinzolo executed. (According to the records of the New York City Police Department: At about 9 pm on September 9, 1930, someone found the body of Joseph Pinzoro on the floor of the office in Room 1007, Brokaw Building, 1487 Broadway, New York. Cause of death: neck multiple gunshot wounds to the chest and left chest. Office 1007 was rented by the California Dried Fruit Importing Company, Tenant Gitano Lucis.) The police arrested Gitano Lucise, but the charges were dropped shortly thereafter.According to Wallach, the real murderer was Bobby Doyle.He once heard Bobby tell people about it, saying, "I did a really beautiful job. I just happened to catch him in the office by himself." Tom Cariano then took over as owner, renamed the Cariano family, until 1952 when he left for health reasons and was succeeded by Gitano Lucisse.Eugenio Ciannini, who was killed by Valachi at the beginning of this article, is a member of the Lucis family. At the same time, Salvador Maranjano and his Casoranmon gang were also on the move, targeting Pietro Merillo, a blood-destroyed executioner of the Masseria family.Wallachi later heard that the one who killed Pietro was a sharpshooter sent by the Capri family in Chicago to help in the battle. His name was Little Devil, of course it was a nickname. "He looked like a college student," Wallach recalled, "and he had a machine gun hidden in the violin case. The kid told me that this Pietro was so indomitable that he took several bullets and filled the room." The kid ran around. The little ghost said that there was another irrelevant person in the office, but he had no choice but to kill him as well." (New York City 23rd District Police Department Case No. 1226: On August 15, 1930, at 3:30 p.m., Pietro Marillo was shot and killed by an unknown gunman in his office at 362 East 116th Avenue. Also killed at the same time was his client, Ginspie Paliano. Pietro Merillo, age: 50, home address: 1115 Arcadan Road, Palisades, New Jersey, cause of death: multiple gunshot wound.) The two assassinations were unrelated.Wallach said: "When the Cariano family heard that Pietro was killed, they knew it wasn't theirs, so they naturally thought that there must be someone else who had a grudge against Boss Joe. Later they knew that it was The Maranjano family of El Salvador." The two families were thus secretly allied, and Joseph Wallach took part in their first joint operation.The other two families, Masseria and Min Leo, have also come together. I was still waiting in line to be accepted by the Cariano family, and they let me live in an apartment on Pelham Street, because they had word that the second boss of the Minlio family, Samuel Ferrenau Rented a suite here.They wanted me to move in because no one knew me.And what I want to know is if they're going to shoot Samuel from my room.They said no, just monitoring.After we have the exact whereabouts of Samuel, we will drive to kill him on the road, but we agreed that I will drive then.Not many people could drive at that time. There are several buildings in the apartment.My room is on the second floor, the courtyard is outside the window, and the window is facing the gate of Samuel Ferrenau's building. We have been staring at it for a month and haven’t seen any sign of Samuel. I asked if it was a mistake, but they said no, this Samuel has several addresses.A week later, I was in the house with the Chicago kid when two other guys came running in in a panic and said they had seen Samuel, who was sitting on a chair outside the front door of the apartment.The little devil grabbed the guy and rushed out. I said: "Wait a minute, I can drive, but if the old man at the gate waved to me, you have to put down the gun, otherwise I will stop." The little ghost said: "Are you crazy? We have been waiting for more than a month." I said, "If I miss something, I will be beaten and fined, but I don't want to go to prison for this." Sure enough, the little ghost was aiming, and the old gatekeeper saw me.He waved to me, and I waved to him. The kid was so funny, he put the gun down.We missed an opportunity.Later, the little devil went to see the "old man", that is, Salvatore Maranjano—we often call the boss "the old man"—and came back to tell everyone that the old man said that my thinking was reasonable, that the future would last long, and there was no need to take risks.