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Draws on interviews and never-before-published documents to explore the life of Al Capone in New York from 1899 to 1925, discussing his relationships with mobsters Johnny Torrio and Frankie Yale, events that shaped his criminal career, why he left the city, and other topics.;Touch us if you dare! -- Shoeshines and shopping bags -- Eyes in the mirror -- A Yale education -- The cigar box -- Going for Baccala -- To catch a star -- The man who created Scarface -- Ma, dance with Pa -- Chicago, here I come -- Crazy Bennys watery grave -- The interrupted honeymoon -- New underworld order -- Fish in the barrel -- The peg leg murders.

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Table of Contents Acknowledgments We wish to acknowledge the following - photo 1
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Acknowledgments

We wish to acknowledge the following people who greatly assisted us by providing facts relevant to the life of young Al Capone: Frank Galluccio; Gido Bianco, who was a prime source of beneficial information during the 1970s and early 1980s; Ciro Favaro, Mickey Donnelly, Mary Savarese, and NYPD Detective Nicholas Scarcella.

For their encouragement and support, we thank our brothers Eugene, Dominick, and Joseph, as well as Williams children: Joseph, Helen and Connie Ann, Williams wife Catherine, Johns grandsons Gregory Deliso, John Martinez and John Mistretta, and Judy Galestro. Special thanks to our good friend and writer Robert Schoenberg, author of Mr. Capone.

Special thanks also go out to our agent, Steven Harris, a real gentleman and without a doubt the best in his profession. If not for his guidance and superior ability to act as teacher, coach and referee, this book would have never been realized.

We offer a final salute to our editor, Mark Weinstein. Thanks for all the help you provided with your patience and understanding of the difficulties inherent in the writings of two former longshoremen.

Also by William Balsamo:

Under the Clock: The Inside Story of the Mafias First 100 Years

(with George Carpozi Jr.)

About the Authors
WILLIAM BALSAMO considered by many to be one of the worlds premier Capone - photo 2

WILLIAM BALSAMO, considered by many to be one of the worlds premier Capone historians, has invested more than twenty-five years in researching and writing this unique book. He is the author of Under the Clock , now in its fifth printing, and served as a consultant to both Brian DePalmas blockbuster 1987 film, The Untouchables , as well as to the companion book for the 1994 Fox TV special, Loyalty and Betrayal: The Story of the American Mob , produced by Nicholas Pillegi ( Wiseguy , Casino ). Mr. Balsamos many television appearances include the Sally Jesse Raphael Show , The Joe Franklin Show , The Geraldo Rivera Show , and various documentary features on the History Channel, A&E, The Learning Channel, Discovery Channel, Travel Channel, and, most recently, the Bio Channel.

JOHN BALSAMO is the chief executive of SUPERDON INC., a company that markets board games. Previous to that, John worked on the Brooklyn waterfront for more than thirty years while compiling extensive material regarding the life of young Capone.

Touch Us If You Dare!

TOMMASSO, WHERESA MY bacile ? muttered the rotund, five foot, four inch tall Maria Adamo as her seventeen-year-old approached. Knowing his mother always did her wash at this time of day, the youngster figured out just what she was looking for.

I dont know, Mama, I havent seen the washbasin. Maybe you left it in the yard, he replied, with a sheepish look on his face. He wouldnt dare let on that hed seen one of his brothers carrying it in the hallway earlier that morning. The thirty-eight-year-old mother of five boys and two small daughters was remarkably youthful-looking despite her many childbirths, but this morning the usually patient, mild-mannered lady was more than a little agitated. She threw her arms in the air and began mumbling a repetitive round of profanity, concluding with putana diavalo (whore of the devil) as she walked outside the doorway and circled the yard once again. Maria, dressed in a loose-fitting beige dress covered with a spotless white apron that she had sewn for herself, was becoming resigned to the fact that someone had stolen her new metal washtub.

Ima keep it right here, where it stay alla time, Maria complained, while pointing to a nail protruding from a wooden beam close to the door that led to the yard.

The Adamos apartment consisted of two separate levels, the basement and the parlor floor of a rented, three-family house at 125 Navy Street where she resided with her large brood and her husband, Francesco, a short, husky dock worker who walked with a limp, his abnormal gait the result of an injury sustained four years prior while toiling on Brooklyns Pearl Street piers.

Tommasso Tommy Adamo left his bewildered mother and took a stroll up the block in search of his younger brothers, thinking they might have taken the rather large basin for one reason or another. Just as he expected, Tommasso found them at the corner of Navy and Tillary Streets. Sixteen-year-old Gerardo, thirteen-year-old Johnny Boy, and the youngest of the Adamo boys, eleven-year-old Francescoknown as Juniorwere hanging out with their clique, called the Navy Street Boys. It was May 12, 1907.

This youthful brotherhood consisted of the previously mentioned Adamo brothers and several other local toughs, including the Capone brothers: Ralph, almost fifteen; twelve-year-old Salvatore (known as Frankie); and the youngest of the group, chubby Alphonse, who was just past the tender age of eight. Alphonse was taller and heavier than most of the other kids his age. He looked like a boy of eleven and the older guys accepted him in the gang as sort of a mascot.

The unchallenged leader of this group of roughnecks was nineteenyear-old Frank Nitto, a tough cookie who was squat (five feet, five inches in height), good with his fists, and much more dangerous when he wielded a weapon. Frank Nitto would gain notoriety later in life as Frank The Enforcer Nitti. It was Franks strong leadership, combined with his boldness during rumbles, that helped make the Navy Street Boys truly feared among other youth gangs of that era. Not only on their own turf but also throughout the borough of Brooklyn, all one had to do was mention Im with Navy Street and that alone caused other youngsters to cower and make tracks. The supercharged fraternity, consisting of mostly Italian Americans, were cliqued up with some of the toughest street gangs around and the time for a little teamwork was fast approaching.

Some of the others who were destined to play a role in the impending rumble on the side of the Italians were Franks brother, Lally, James Filezee DeAmato, Rocco Rocky Mangano, Tough Tony Caputo, and around a dozen others.

Did any of you see Mamas wash basin? Tommasso asked as he approached the gang. He directed the question to his youngest brother, Junior, who was seated, cross-legged on the wooden steps of the house where Tony Caputo lived. Shes going nuts looking for it because she wants to wash some of Papas work clothes.

Junior Adamo bore a blank expression and remained tight-lipped as the hoodlum commander, Frank Nitto, who was leaning against a corner lamppost with his right shoulder, hesitated for a moment, then lit a cigarette, which hung from his lips, and took a drag. Sucking the smoke deep into his lungs, Nitto held it for a moment, and then exhaled the nicotine fog into the gentle breeze.

Shell get it back in good shape as soon as we finish using it. When the shits over! Nitto barked, and then softened his tone reassuringly with, You have my word on that, Tommy.

Tommasso sighed a little, but his anxiety was allayed when little Alphonse disclosed the fact that Frank told him to hide the basin under the stairs in the hallway of his house and furthermore, young Capone promised that he would protect the tub.

The oldest Adamo brother, arriving late on the scene, was not aware of the war council that he had unexpectedly interrupted. The gang was upset because one of the guys in their clique, Rocky Mangano, recently had a family member, an aunt, insulted by some local Irish hooligans. The young Irish toughs thought it was funny to sneak up behind this dark-haired lady, who in this particular neighborhood was undoubtedly Italian, and lift up her skirt to expose her bloomers.

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