by PolackTony » Thu Jun 23, 2022 6:36 pm
Antiliar wrote: ↑Thu Jun 23, 2022 4:03 pm
Just to add, in 1914 a Pearl Brown was the manager of a brothel at 101 West Twenty-first Street, which might be the correct address. Different articles gave various address numbers. Samuel Purceno was her lookout. That same year the Chicago Tribune noted that Joe Adducci (or Adduci), called a lieutenant of Colosimo, moved to Peoria. Previously he ran a "resort" and a saloon at 113 West Twenty-first. There was a Joseph Adduci killed in a barber's chair in 1934, but I couldn't confirm if it's the same guy.
Good info on a Joe Adduci being connected to prostitution in Colosimo’s district. I suspect that he was likely to have been the same guy who was killed in 1934, as I haven’t seen a record for another guy that would be a match in terms of age range. You may already know this, but the Giuseppe Adduci killed in 1934 was born ~1892 in Alessandria del Carretto, Cosenza, and was the 1st cousin of Jimmy Adduci’s father. When he was killed in 1934, Dom Brancato was a suspect in the slaying, which police suspected was a case of mistaken identity, with the head of the Barbers Association having been the intended target. If Adduci was associated with OC, as seems likely, than I’m not so sure it was mistaken identity.
While there’s still much that we don’t know, the ties to Colosimo noted here go to further suggest that Colosimo was likely a Camorrist’.
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Just to add, in 1914 a Pearl Brown was the manager of a brothel at 101 West Twenty-first Street, which might be the correct address. Different articles gave various address numbers. Samuel Purceno was her lookout. That same year the Chicago Tribune noted that Joe Adducci (or Adduci), called a lieutenant of Colosimo, moved to Peoria. Previously he ran a "resort" and a saloon at 113 West Twenty-first. There was a Joseph Adduci killed in a barber's chair in 1934, but I couldn't confirm if it's the same guy.
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Good info on a Joe Adduci being connected to prostitution in Colosimo’s district. I suspect that he was likely to have been the same guy who was killed in 1934, as I haven’t seen a record for another guy that would be a match in terms of age range. You may already know this, but the Giuseppe Adduci killed in 1934 was born ~1892 in Alessandria del Carretto, Cosenza, and was the 1st cousin of Jimmy Adduci’s father. When he was killed in 1934, Dom Brancato was a suspect in the slaying, which police suspected was a case of mistaken identity, with the head of the Barbers Association having been the intended target. If Adduci was associated with OC, as seems likely, than I’m not so sure it was mistaken identity.
While there’s still much that we don’t know, the ties to Colosimo noted here go to further suggest that Colosimo was likely a Camorrist’.