Some 250,000 people: Radin, “Detective in a Derby Hat.”
“crack-brained anarchists”: Unidentified clipping, Petrosino newspaper archive.
Verdi’s Requiem: Author’s email interview with Lt. Tony Giorgio, New York Police Band.
“If Petrosino had died”: New York Times, April 13, 1909.
In a courtroom: Unidentified clipping, Petrosino newspaper archive.
Five and a half hours: Ibid.
17. GOATVILLE
he’d been posing: New York World, March 15, 1909.
“SLAYERS OF PETROSINO”: New York Journal, August 7, 1909.
“a den of lions”: New York World, March 13, 1909.
“I only wish”: New York Times, March 14, 1909.
“He was eager”: Clipping from the New York Times, March 14 or 15, 1909, Petrosino newspaper archive.
“All of those men”: New York Times, March 16, 1909.
“The police in Palermo”: Washington Post, March 21, 1909.
“There is no question”: New York Tribune, March 14, 1909.
“Had Congress done”: Frank Marshall White, “The Increasing Menace of the Black Hand,” New York Times, March 21, 1909.
In February 2013: Barbie Latza Nadeau, “Who Really Murdered Joe Petrosino?” dailybeast.com, June 24, 2014.
“The man who sleeps here”: New York World, March 14, 1910.
“I live in”: Undated article from the New York Evening Telegram, Petrosino newspaper archive.
Detective Salvatore Santoro: New York Sun, March 27, 1909.
“until the agitation”: Washington Post, March 20, 1909.
“We received every assurance”: New York Times, May 3, 1909.
“Petrosino is dead”: Quoted in Pitkin, The Black Hand, p. 116.
“The killing”: Iorizzio and Mondello, “Origins of Italian-American Criminality.”
“She felt that history”: Interview with Susan Burke.
More than fifty years: Ibid.
“Vachris is a bull-necked”: Brooklyn Eagle, October 26, 1907.
“I feel certain”: Nashville American, March 14, 1909.
The secrecy of the mission: For details on Vachris’s mission, see White, “The Black Hand in Control.”
“The Sullivans!”: This account is from Richard F. Welch, King of the Bowery: Big Tim Sullivan, Tammany Hall, and New York City from the Gilded Age to the Progressive Era (New York: Excelsior Editions, 2009), p. 129.
“waste, rascality”: “Bingham Comes Out Against Tammany,” New York Times, October 13, 1909.
Vachris spent his days: For Vachris’s exile within the NYPD and the cover-up of his mission, see White, “The Passing of the Black Hand.”
“It is probable”: “The Black Hand Under Control,” New Outlook, June 14, 1916, p. 347.
“The certificates were suppressed”: Quoted ibid.
There is: Salvatore LaGumina, Wop! A Documentary History of Anti-Italian Discrimination (Toronto: Guernica Editions, 1999), p. 101.
“The acceptance”: Ibid.
“How utterly unjust”: Frank Marshall White, “Against the Black Hand,” Collier’s Weekly, September 1910, p. 49.
“As he grew older”: Pettaco, Joe Petrosino, p. 193.
Comito recalled: Comito confession.
18. A RETURN
“a tall, dark, pleasant man”: New York Sun, April 8, 1914.
One of his earliest ideas: Carey, Memoirs of a Murder Man, p. 133.
“The fat policeman”: Town Topics, June 26, 1916.
Professor L. E. Bisch: New York Sunday World, August 27, 1916.
“radiate good nature”: Quotations are from Arthur Woods, Policeman and Public (New York: Arno Press, 1971), pp. 75, 67.
“branch of Social Service”: The Churchman 31, no. 11 (November 1917).
The effects were immediate: New York Telegram, August 25, 1916.
“NOTICE: COPS KEEP OUT”: Carey, Memoirs of a Murder Man, p. 141.
“Murder can be done cheaper”: New York World, December 2, 1914.
Three years before: Terence O’Malley, Blackhand Strawman (By the author, 2011), p. 3.
“was their favorite prey”: “The Nightstick and the Blackjack, Well Handled, Have Driven New York’s Bandmen into Prison or Ways of Decent Living,” New York Herald, September 2, 1917. This long article is the source for most of the account of the gangs of Woods’s era.
“[The Society] had perpetrated”: White, “The Passing of the Black Hand.”
That afternoon: For the account of the Longo case, see ibid.
“Commissioner Woods”: Washington Post, December 14, 1914.
the profitable world: See Fiaschetti, You Gotta Be Rough, p. 15: “The 18th Amendment endowed the Black Hand with fabulous funds and took it from isolated Italian quarters and bestowed it on the cities at large.”
“perfect example of detective work”: White, “The Passing of the Black Hand.”
In the 1930s: See Charles Zappia, “Labor, Race and Ethnicity in the West Virginia Mines,” Journal of American Ethnic History 30, no. 4 (Summer 2011): 44–50.
Those who’d spent time: For Cascio Ferro’s last days, see Pettaco, Joe Petrosino, pp. 193–95.
“Men live and die”: New York American, April 13, 1909.
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Index
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
A
Abate, Francesco, 132–34
Acena, Vincenzo, 241
Adams, Henry, 9–10
African Americans, 160
Agnone, Italy, 105
Alabama, 160–61
Albany Evening Journal, 104
Alfano, Enrico, 115–16, 118–21
Alger, Horatio, 6
American Israelite, 210
anarchism, 179–80, 213, 232
Anarchists of Paterson, 171
Arato, Vincenzo, 186–87
Asheville, North Carolina, 160–61
Atlanta Constitution, 203
B
Bagnato, Joe, 93
Baker, William F., 226, 227
Balstieri, Giuseppe. See Alfano, Enrico
Baltimore, Maryland, 21–22, 32, 53, 94, 147
Baltimore Sun, 110
Bananno, Nicolò, 138–40
Barberri, Giovanni, 134–35
Barrel Murder, 25–27, 57, 76, 178–79, 195
Barroncini, Antonio and Mrs., 36
Barzini, Luigi, 42–43
baseball, 145–46
“Bat Masterson Library” (newspaper serial), 92–93
Benteregna, John, 90–91
Berlin, Germany, 206
Big Pietro, 135
Bingham, Theodore A.
appointed as NYPD commissioner, 99–102, 104–5
assassination attempt, 221
blind aggression of, 242
call for vigilantes and, 164
criticism of, 162
firing of, 225, 228
intelligence operation planned by, 172–73, 185
Italian Squad and, 145
letter to secretary of state, 218, 222
official roof tree of, 152
Pasquale Enea and, 197
Petrosino’s assassination and, 203, 204, 217, 218, 219
Petrosino’s cover blown by, 187, 193
Petrosino’s letter to, 190–91
at Petrosino’s wedding, 151
secret service of, 166–75, 204
Vachris and, 224, 228
Birmingham, Alabama, 160
Bisch, L. E., 232
Bishop, William A., 189, 191, 192, 200, 204, 207–8, 224
Black Hand. See Society of the Black Hand
Black Hand (film), 223
Bonanno, Frank, 119, 145
Bonaventura, Pronzola, 154–55
Bonaventure, Max, 89
Bonnoil, Maurice, 45
bootblacks, 5, 6
Borgnine, Ernest, 223
Boston Daily Globe, 85
Bozzuffi, Antonio, 120–32, 128
Bozzuffi, John, 128–32
“bracing” suspects, 121–22
Bresci, Gaetano, 72–73, 74, 95
Brogno, Natale, 19, 20, 22
Brooklyn, New York, 96–97
Abate in, 132–34
Adelina’s move to, 222–23
Black Hand crimes and criminals in, 34, 47, 50, 52
fear in, 152
Francis Corrao as lawyer in, 113
horse manure in, 8
Italian immigrants in, 81
obstacles to fighting Society in, 162
Petrosino in, 123
police officers threatened in, 59
Society’s public debut in, 30–31
Terrio in, 136
Tony Mannino kidnapping, 31–33, 35
Brooklyn Bridge, 9, 68, 69
Brooklyn Eagle, 36, 163, 223
Brooklyn Italian Squad, 141–42, 162, 175, 205–6, 221, 223
Brooklyn Superbas, 145–46
Burke, Susan, 266 n
C
Calabria (ship), 198
Calabria and Calabrians
courtship rituals, 107
earthquake in, 206
immigrants from, 57, 82, 146, 176
Irish and, 10
“Michele,” 230
monetary value of lives of, 82
California (steamship), 114–15, 116, 118
Caltanissetta, Sicily, 197
Calvary Cemetery, 216, 220
Camorra, 115, 117, 118, 119, 120–21
Campania and Campanians, 2, 5, 8–9, 13, 94, 111, 146. See also Naples and Neapolitans
Campisi (kidnapping suspect), 180
Campisi, Mr. (grocer), 128, 130, 131
Candela, Gioacchino, 190
Candler, Asa G., 87
Capone, Al, 136–37
Cappiello, Nicolo, 30–31
carabinieri, 118, 188
Carbone, Angelo, 19–22
Carbone Limestone Company, 93
Carhipolo, Detective (on Italian Squad), 119
Carlino, Giuseppe, 111
Carnegie, Andrew, 207
Caruso, Angelo, 195
Caruso, Enrico, 98–99, 205, 210
Cascio Ferro, Vito
after Petrosino’s assassination, 243–44
Barrel Murder and, 26, 27–28
in Sicily, 178–82, 195, 196, 197, 219, 229, 230
Cassidi, Ugo, 45–46
Castellano, Paolo, 55
Catholic Church in Sicily, 182
Catholic Protective Society, 147
Catholic Times, 211
Cavone, Rocco
Bananno arrest and injury of, 138–39
Francesco Longo kidnapping and, 237, 238, 239–40
Petrosino’s death and, 202
Petrosino’s recruitment of, 62–63
Cecala (counterfeiter), 230
Ceola, Baldassare, 191–93, 199–200, 219, 224
Ceramello, Salvatore, 20–22
Chadwick, Father (NYPD chaplain), 220
Chance, Frank, 145
Chicago, Illinois
assassination plans in, 196
Benteregna in, 90
Black Hand victims in, 48, 98
Colosimo and, 135–37
concerned citizens’ group in, 143
fear in, 83
Italian immigrants in, 3, 81
Italians depicted on stage in, 42
Longobardi as “Petrosino” of, 196, 233
newspapers in, 32 (See also specific newspaper names)
Rockefeller’s granddaughter in, 158–59
Sineni and, 17–18
White Hand Society in, 146–47, 156
Chicago Cubs, 145
Chicago Outfit, 135–36
Chicago Police Department, 147
Chick Triggers (gang), 234
Children’s Aid Society, 213
Christina, Mr. (cobbler), 128, 130, 131
Cianfarra (Petrosino family friend), 185–86
Cincinnati Enquirer, 88
Cincinnati Reds, 146
Cito (counterfeiter), 229
Clearwater, John, 51–52
Cleveland Plain Dealer, 84
Clinton, Illinois, 158
Cohan, George M., 210, 221–22
Collier’s, 93
Colombo crime syndicate, 172–73, 179
Colosimo, Big Jim, 135–37
Columbia University, 205, 232, 233
Columbus, Christopher, 111
Columbus Italian Hospital, 111
Comito, Antonio, 176–77, 229–30, 238
Connery, Simon J., 85
Connors, Frances, 25–26
contadini, 9, 11–12, 50
Corrao, Charly, 113
Corrao, Francis, 113, 162, 219
counterfeiting operation, 176–77, 229–30, 238