Harlem Murder Stables

[blackhander]

Just wrote a new piece about the East 108th Stables, includes info on owners background and some of the killings connected to it.

https://www.gangrule.com/events/the-murder-stables

Thanks.
J

[Antiliar]

Hey, great to see you here. Look forward to reading your article.

[PolackTony]

Great article. The alleged connections to Colosimo in Chicago are very interesting.

[Antiliar]

Joseph "Chicago Joe" Buonomo was almost definitely a Camorrista. He only lived in Chicago briefly, but when he was there he lived at 110 West Twenty-first Street in a "resort" owned by Jim Colosimo. The "white slave" racket he was part of was headquartered in Brooklyn, according to the newspapers.

[Antiliar]

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.

[blackhander]

Hey, thanks.

That whole Chicago case, and the Buonomo connections to Bridgeport and New Haven are pretty interesting. Might look into it one day, if Chicago Joe's testimony can be tracked down.

[PolackTony]

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’.

[Antiliar]

I agree that Colosimo was probably a Camorrista. My opinion on Gallucci is that he was probably a guappo (credit to Angelo for this suggestion, but seeing Wikipedia it looks like others also came to the same conclusion). Jon made a really good find in that letter to the DA: “On last Saturday a big number of the worst men belong to the worst gang of the world were arrested. The head man of this gang that was also arrested the name is Gesule Lugariello, alias Gallucci. He is the head man Italian Lottery. He is the man who gives the order to his men to kill.” Never heard of the name Lugariello. There was another Giosue Gallucci who was a wanted Camorrista and the New York Gallucci said it was a different man. Did this Lugariello "borrow" Gallucci's identity? If he did, why borrow the ID of a wanted man? It's a mystery wrapped in an enigma.

[motorfab]

Question : as he was from Calabria, how could Colosimo have been a Camorrista? Through the Morescos?

[Antiliar]

Question : as he was from Calabria, how could Colosimo have been a Camorrista? Through the Morescos?

Anything goes in the United States. The Sicilian Mafia doesn't include members from Naples and Calabria, but the American Mafia does. Even half-Italian guys like John Veasey, Jimmy Marcello, and Chucky Porter were able to get made - with Porter rising to underboss and Marcello to boss - things that couldn't happen in Sicily.

[motorfab]

Question : as he was from Calabria, how could Colosimo have been a Camorrista? Through the Morescos?

Anything goes in the United States. The Sicilian Mafia doesn't include members from Naples and Calabria, but the American Mafia does. Even half-Italian guys like John Veasey, Jimmy Marcello, and Chucky Porter were able to get made - with Porter rising to underboss and Marcello to boss - things that couldn't happen in Sicily.

I get that for the American way of doing things, but I'd thought that during the 1900s to 1920s mafiosi were more conservatives. But you're maybe right.

However about the Sicilian mafia there is an exception with Naples since some Camorrists like the Zaza or the Nuvoletta brothers were baptized Cosa Nostra. But that's another story
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[blackhander]

Here is one of the better plans of the block that I found during the research >

https://iiif-prod.nypl.org/index.php?id=5073560&t=g

It will take a minute to load as it's quite high res.

[Doug]

Question : as he was from Calabria, how could Colosimo have been a Camorrista? Through the Morescos?

Anything goes in the United States. The Sicilian Mafia doesn't include members from Naples and Calabria, but the American Mafia does. Even half-Italian guys like John Veasey, Jimmy Marcello, and Chucky Porter were able to get made - with Porter rising to underboss and Marcello to boss - things that couldn't happen in Sicily.

I thought Michele Zaza was a made member of the Sicilian Mafia?

[PolackTony]

Question : as he was from Calabria, how could Colosimo have been a Camorrista? Through the Morescos?

Anything goes in the United States. The Sicilian Mafia doesn't include members from Naples and Calabria, but the American Mafia does. Even half-Italian guys like John Veasey, Jimmy Marcello, and Chucky Porter were able to get made - with Porter rising to underboss and Marcello to boss - things that couldn't happen in Sicily.

I get that for the American way of doing things, but I'd thought that during the 1900s to 1920s mafiosi were more conservatives. But you're maybe right.

However about the Sicilian mafia there is an exception with Naples since some Camorrists like the Zaza or the Nuvoletta brothers were baptized Cosa Nostra. But that's another story
...

The Camorra was a criminal secret society that began in the Bourbon prison system sometime before 1850. From the prisons, it ramified out to the regions of the former Kingdom of Naples. So it wasn’t just a Neapolitan/Campanian thing. For example, around the turn of the 20th century a criminal society called “Società di Camorra” was identified in what today is the city of Lamezia Terme, Catanzaro province, Calabria (which just so happens to have been the town that Chicago LCN members Dom Ruberto and Frank LaPorte were from). Colosimi, Cosenza province, where Jim Colosimo was from, is near the border with Catanzaro province and not very far from Lamezia Terme. The modern ‘Ndrangheta system evolved from the old Camorra in Reggio province, eventually coming to incorporate local clans in other Calabrian provinces.

[motorfab]

Ok, I see. I didn't know for the last point, thank you very much Tony