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617 ukthesis Offline Send Email Nov 2, 2008
6:14 pm
The New York City Mafia book by David Critchley. Click on this URL to see the Index for the book. This will give potential buyers a very good idea of the wide...
618 David Critchley
ukthesis Offline Send Email
Nov 2, 2008
11:24 pm
Seems that I need to remove the spaces between the letters on the URL I gave for the book's index.  Here goes again, typed in manually this time: ...
619 David Critchley
ukthesis Offline Send Email
Nov 2, 2008
11:25 pm
SCRATCH the last email.  I mis-typed the URL.  Should be: http://www.gangrule.com/index.pdf Dave. SCRATCH the last email. I mis-typed the URL. Should be:...
620 mauriecostlow
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Nov 2, 2008
11:25 pm
Harry Bennett worked for Henry Ford in the 30's does anyone know if he was in the Mafia or just a thug there are suppose to be ties to murder incorporated and...
621 David Critchley
ukthesis Offline Send Email
Nov 3, 2008
10:24 am
No is the answer to both questions. ... From: mauriecostlow <mauriecostlow@...> Subject: [americanmafia] Harry Bennett To: americanmafia@yahoogroups.com...
622 Ryan
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Nov 3, 2008
6:02 pm
I hate when people say "Murder Incorporated" as if it existed as an organized group ... anyone know if ... you...
623 David Critchley
ukthesis Offline Send Email
Nov 3, 2008
6:33 pm
Anyone who wants to know more about it should read: Alan A. Block, "East Side West Side" Dave. ... From: Ryan <ryan_12177@...> Subject: [americanmafia]...
624 Rick Mattix
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Nov 4, 2008
5:16 pm
I agree. Block is the best word here. As I recall, "Murder Incorporated" was originally coined by a newspaperman as just a synonym for the alleged national...
625 David Critchley
ukthesis Offline Send Email
Nov 4, 2008
11:10 pm
Hi Rick You're right again.  The Reles people were basically gang figures with their own enterprises who became renowned for the quality of their murder...
626 Ryan
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Nov 5, 2008
9:51 pm
I agree wholeheartedly with Dave and Rick.. I also hate that apparently everyone who did murder for hire in those days was a member of "Murder Inc"... and I...
627 David Critchley
ukthesis Offline Send Email
Nov 5, 2008
10:08 pm
Interesting you should say that.  I have a friend who is doubtful that Anastasia was a member in the 1920s, in part because of his non-Sicilian heritage. ...
628 Rick Mattix
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Nov 6, 2008
6:58 am
I've had doubts about Frankie Yale sometimes for the same reason. Does Gentile say anything much about him? Seems like we might have gone over this before. ...
629 Thomas Hunt
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Nov 6, 2008
7:31 am
... that Anastasia was a member in the 1920s, in part because of his non- Sicilian heritage.  Yet Gentile does imply that Anastasia was up there by 1931,...
630 Thomas Hunt
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Nov 6, 2008
7:36 am
... I don't recall any mention of Yale. But I'm not sure Gentile would have had occasion to mention him. Perhaps Dave remembers spotting something. - Tom...
631 David Critchley
ukthesis Offline Send Email
Nov 6, 2008
12:14 pm
Yeah.  Coming back to the discussion over Masseria, Gentile says that at General Assembly meetings, they all spoke "our language," which was Sicilian.  (This...
632 David Critchley
ukthesis Offline Send Email
Nov 6, 2008
12:16 pm
Sorry, no.  One of the things is that nobody seems to have queried Gentile on anything he said, or didn't say.  It looks to me like he was allowed to ramble...
633 Ryan
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Nov 6, 2008
5:06 pm
What was Genovese's tirade about and what did Anastasia do to put a stop to it? I'd never heard of that before, but I don't have access to gentile's memoirs......
634 Thomas Hunt
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Nov 6, 2008
5:20 pm
... Genovese was apparently in a homicidal rage over the 1932 killings of the Neapolitan Volpe brothers in Pittsburgh. He personally summoned Pittsburgh's John...
635 David Critchley
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Nov 6, 2008
9:13 pm
Tom, is there any way we can get to Ryan some of the Gentile pages?  Last time I tried, there was a query over copyright that scared me off.  Once, as you...
636 David Critchley
ukthesis Offline Send Email
Nov 6, 2008
9:14 pm
And, as we know, the Bazzano episode was recorded by turncoat Angelo Lonardo in the 1980s, and in a 1964 FBI report (in which the details are slightly at...
637 Thomas Hunt
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Nov 6, 2008
9:41 pm
...   Last time I tried, there was a query over copyright that scared me off.  Once, as you know, I tried to contact the publisher but that was a dead end. ...
638 Thomas Hunt
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Nov 6, 2008
9:47 pm
... information ... intending ... memos ... Just a bit of clarification (I hope): We have a chicken-and-egg situation. (BTW: The egg certainly came first, as...
639 ukthesis Offline Send Email Nov 6, 2008
10:47 pm
I haven#'t the time to copy (digital camera photograph) all the pages from my translation. If Ryan wants me to photograph and send to Tom, by email, passages,...
640 ukthesis Offline Send Email Nov 6, 2008
10:47 pm
It sounds messy. But I don't think anyone in the world would bother to object if I photographed under 10 pages from the manuscript and for private researches,...
641 Thomas Hunt
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Nov 6, 2008
10:51 pm
... What form is it in? Is it paper hardcopy? Microfilm? If I paid for the cost of copying, shipping and your trouble, could we work something out? - Tom...
642 Ryan
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Nov 7, 2008
6:52 pm
You guys don't have to go through all of that trouble for me. I'll likely send you guys anything I have a theory on in the future and you can just let me know...
643 Ryan
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Nov 7, 2008
6:52 pm
I am in Sacramento, California. ...   Last time I tried, there was a query over copyright that scared me off.  Once, as you know, I tried to contact the...
644 Richard Warner
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Nov 8, 2008
12:30 pm
Hey, another Californian.  I live in Orange County, just south of Los Angeles. Rick ... From: Ryan <ryan_12177@...> Subject: [americanmafia] Re: Harry...
645 Ryan
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Nov 8, 2008
12:32 pm
It has become quite clear to me that Genovese was a major power without Luciano. This puts any stories featuring Genovese as a Luciano gunman/lackey highly in...
646 ukthesis Offline Send Email Nov 8, 2008
10:41 pm
I can understand the hypothesis. In fact, Genovese was one of those visiting Tony Parretti in the Sing Sing death house in 1927. Parretti was a Neapolitan...
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