October 2023 issue contents - Columns
New facts about two 1928 conventioneers
By Steve Turner
An interstate network of Sicilian-American mafiosi was revealed with the arrests of twenty three men at Cleveland’s Hotel Statler on December 5, 1928. The arrested attendees of this Mafia convention had traveled to Cleveland from Chicago, New York, Tampa, Buffalo and St. Louis.
 |
| Frank Abbate |
The men were processed on “suspicion,” photographed and questioned. Investigators were certain that the gathering was for a sinister purpose and that the hasty Hotel Statler arrests frightened away other visiting mafiosi who were staying at other locations in the city. But they learned very little during interrogations of the prisoners – each had some sort of cover story for his visit to Cleveland – and eventually almost all were bailed out or released...
Magazine page count: four pages.
Images: nine.
Source list.
No comments:
Post a Comment