Title: John Scalise Description: John Scalise (1900-1929), Italian gangster, and Albert Anselmi (1883-1929), Italian gangster, under arrest for killing two police officers and wounding another in a running gunfight in 1925; both men were convicted of manslaughter and given fourteen years in prison, but they were acquitted and released in 1927, their second and third trials were reportedly fixed by their employer, Al Capone, crime boss of the South Side of Chicago; Capone allegedly paid bribes to the judge and jurors in the subsequent two trials of his top killers more than $100,000 and, upon their release, gave a lavish party in their honor; two years later Capone personally killed both Scalise and Anselmi, after learning that they were planning to kill him and take over his crime empire; assassins. Category: Crime Keywords: crime, criminal justice, criminology, law enforcement, Cosa Nostra, gangsters, hired killers, hit men, Mafia, mobsters, organized crime Orientation: Portrait Dimensions: 1380 x 2027 (2.80 MPixels) (1.47) Print Size: 11.7 x 17.2 cm; 4.6 x 6.8 inches File Size: 8.02 MB (8,408,222 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000001080 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
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