Notes

¹  McPhaul, Jack, Johnny Torrio: First of the Gang Lords, New Rochelle NY: Arlington House, 1970, p. 209; Balsamo, William and George Carpozi Jr., Under the Clock, Far Hills NJ: New Horizon Press, 1988, p. 189-192. McPhaul attributes the slayings of Jim Colosimo in 1920 and Dion O’Banion in 1924 to the visiting Yale. Balsamo embellished the legend by adding a meeting between Yale and Capone, complete with broken-English dialogue.

²  “N.Y. gangster held by Crowe in gun inquiry,” Chicago Tribune, Nov. 19, 1924, p. 1.

³  “Suburb gun centers shut: Two O’Banion suspects are freed,” Chicago Tribune, Nov. 21, 1924, p. 1.

⁴  Peterson, Virgil, W. The Mob: 200 Years of Organized Crime in New York, Ottawa IL: Green Hill Publishers, p. 149-151. Peterson preserves the legend of Brooklyn-based Yale’s presidency of the Unione Siciliana organization born in Chicago. He describes Yale as the primary supplier of imported alcohol to the Torrio-Capone gang in Chicago.

⁵  “Deportation or death seen as gangster fate,” Chicago Tribune, Feb. 17, 1926, p. 2.

⁶  Maas, Peter, The Valachi Papers, New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1968, p. 92.

⁷  “Questioned in murder,” New York Times, April 20, 1931.

⁸  Maas, Peter, The Valachi Papers, New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1968, p. 92.

⁹  Bonanno, Joseph with Sergio Lalli, A Man of Honor, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1983, p. 84-85, 121-122.

¹⁰  Gosch, Martin A. and Richard Hammer, The Last Testament of Lucky Luciano, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1975, p. 131-132.

¹¹  “Questioned in murder,” New York Times, April 20, 1931.

¹²  Memo dated Nov. 27, 1940, within the Kings County District Attorney’s Office “Murder Inc.” files.

¹³  “Four murders, safe looting in crime flare,” Brooklyn Standard Union, May 11, 1931; “Inn owner slain,” New York Times, Sept. 12, 1932; “Excerpts from testimony given yesterday at the Crime Commission hearing,” New York Times, Dec. 19, 1952, p. 26.

¹⁴  “Gang kills suspect in alien smuggling,” New York Times, Sept. 11, 1931, p. 1.

¹⁵  Gentile, Nick, Vita di Capomafia, U.S. federal government English-language translation of Gentile’s unpublished manuscript, p. 115-116. Pollaccia-related passages, obtained through the assistance of author David Critchley, were not included in the published version of Gentile’s work