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ape Laon ag itn ila ao ma eh nna tannin ements ~ —— ee eee nee tee criminal element as he was among several men convicted of killing a fellow countryman in a quarrel. After months in the death house at Sing Sing Prison ANASTASIA won a retrial on a technical plea. Meanwhile the State's best witness in this case was frightened back to Italy. On the retrial, ALBERT was acquitted. He was arrested for assult in 1923 but won a discharge by the same technique of intimidating witnesses, The same year he was convicted of possessing a gun. He > : served two years in the penitentiary. In 1928 the subject was charged with another murder and in 1932 with stabbing a man to death with an ice-pick, but was dismissed for lack of evidence both times, In 1933 he was tried for the killing of a Brooklyn laundryman but the State's witnesses somehow changed their story and ~ he got off again, By this time the subject was rising to vower on a Brooklyn waterfront. He bécame a pier superintendent land aominated six locals of thg International Longshoremen's ssociation, A.F.L. In additjon, ALBERT had become a friend, he admitted in 1951 to thefKefauver Committee, of JOE _ ADONIS, ILLIn =ORZTTI, VITQAGENOVESE and AUGIYPISANO, important thUES et ty With AvONIS and ADE RELES, ALEEZRT formed Murder, inc., the famous racket syndicate that slew sixty-three men in the New York area between 1931 and 19)0.. KELES later testified that ALBEAT was the fingerman and ordered all of the killings. In 1939 FETER PANTO, the longshoreman who organized a rank-and-file revolt to rid the union of racketeers was strangled and his body was buried in a lime pit. RELES, accused of several other murders, told all to save his life, He implicated the subject in this and thirty more murders, Then RELES plunged to his death from his room in the Half Moon Hotel in Coney Island in 1941 and WILLIAM O'DWYER, then Brooklyn District Attorney, said his "perfect case" against ANASTASIA had collapsed. Taking refuge in the Army in 192 the subject hid out as technical sergeant training Army longshoremen at -3- M