Joseph Petrosino
So, Joseph Petrosino and his cousin Anthony Puppolo lived with a "politically connected" Irish household for some time, which opened up educational and employment avenues not available to more recent immigrants, especially Italian ones.[7] A second notable case in Petrosino's stint with the Italian Squad was his infiltration of an Italian-based anarchist organization suspected of ties to the assassination of King Umberto I in 1900.During his mission, he discovered evidence that the organization intended to assassinate President William McKinley during his trip to Buffalo, New York[citation needed].[9] On March 12, 1909, after arriving in Palermo, Sicily, Petrosino was invited to a nighttime rendezvous in the city's Piazza Marina, where he was to receive information about the Mafia.[9][10] The day after Petrosino's death, the detective's Italian Branch received an anonymous letter stating that the New York Black Hand had arranged the murder.[12][13] Palermo's police commissioner, Baldassare Ceola, listed five Sicilian suspects:[11] Enrico Alfano had been linked to Petrosino's murder, when he began to run a gambling den in the basement of 108 Mulberry Street; Alfano became one of the primary underworld targets of Petrosino who believed he was a big player in the New York branch of the Camorra.[19][20] In 2014, during an (unrelated) investigation by Italian police, a descendant claimed that Paolo Palazzotto, a henchman of the Fontana crime ring of Palermo,[citation needed] was the actual killer, executing Cascio Ferro's "hit."[9] Assistant District Attorney Francis L. Carrao of Brooklyn was also quoted in The New York Times: "The Italian Government must be held largely responsible tor the death of Lieut."[9] Funeral rites for Petrosino were performed in Palermo, after which his body was sent to New York aboard the English S/S Slavonia, arriving April 9.[27] A pillar topped with an elaborate bust, inaugurated a year after his death,[28] marks his gravesite in Queens, New York, Calvary Cemetery.It includes photographs, a vintage LP record, an original Black Hand letter, as well as both artwork and a comic book about his life.A plaster cast from the original 2014 bronze relief in Petrosino Square was donated to the museum by its creator, artist Carter Jones.
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