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#OTD (Oct 05)
Events in U.S. organized crime #history.

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On this date, Oct 05...
• in 1902, Chicago Mafia leader Mariano Zagone marries Biagia Spatafora, widow of Gioacchino Spatafora.
• in 1912, New York gang leader Jack Zelig is fatally shot while on a streetcar.
• in 1921, Brooklyn parole officer Louis Miller writes to President Warren Harding to request a conditional pardon that will allow paroled counterfeiter Ignazio Lupo to travel to Sicily.
• in 1925 Carmine Clemente begins 10-20-year sentence for a Bronx amusement park robbery.
• in 1928, Manhattan gangster Tony 'Marlow' Melillo suffers mortal gunshot wounds outside the Harding Hotel.
• in 1931, Vincent Coll is arraigned for the killing of a child in Harlem.
• in 1935, local and federal authorities in New Orleans arrest suspected leaders of a narcotics smuggling ring.
• in 1937, mafioso Nick Gentile is arrested on narcotics charges in New Orleans.
• in 1959, Joseph Barbara Jr., son of the Apalachin NY convention host, pleads guilty to criminal contempt of court.
• in 1960, the Ohio Supreme Court affirms the assault and battery conviction of Mike Farah.
• in 1976, John Cutrone is shot to death during a robbery of a Brooklyn luncheonette.
Image of Ignazio Lupo.

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