Giuseppe Petrosino And The Black Hand

Giuseppe Petrosino and the Black HandThe birth of the Mob pitted the first Godfather against New York's finest detective"If Petrosino had died a president or an emperor, no deeper or truer show of feeling could have been manifested than was shown by the 200,000 citizens who lined the sidewalks." —The New York Times, April 13, 1909It was a funeral as only New Yorkers do funerals.The body of NYPD detective lieutenant Joseph Petrosino arrived in New York Harbor from Palermo aboard the Sla...