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tet, RET Sree eee OE ae OED G2. " 4? ; oa! Bade Woy recrdar rents tigs one Cio The “New Yor: Times" for Decemo:r Zh, 1952 in aa article on Albert Anastasia aévised that the biozrapvhy or the Srothers Anastasia becan in Tropea, a fishing village in Calabria, Italy. The family name was Anastasio. The father of the Anastasia brothers was a ra‘lroaé worker who = Gied before World War I. By that time the fanily consisted - of nine sons ane thr:e daughters. One son and two daushters died young. Another son emigrated to Australia. All the remaining boys had to go to work at an early age, on fishing boats, on freighters, on farms; one succeeded his father on the railrocd. ‘ Umrerto, later called Albert, now fifty years old, Guiseppi (Joseph), now forty-seven, and Tony, now forty- five, shinped as deckhands on tramp steamers as children of eleven and twelve andknocked about the toughest ports in the world. At various times durine the Twenties they jumped ship in the Unite? States and merged into the gangs of longshoremen. Albert, the oléest and most sinister of the Anastasia brothers got involved as-far back as 1921 with the criminal element es he was amonm severel men convicted of killins a fellow countryman in a auarrel. After months in the death house at Sins Sing Prison Anastasia won a ee retrial on e technical plea. Meanwnile the State's best witness in this case wes frightened back to Italy. On the retrial, Albert was acouitted. ‘le was arreste? for assavlt in 1923 but won a cischarre by the same technigue Of intimidating witnesses. The seme year he was convicted of possessing a gun. He served two years in the penitentiary. In 1928 the subject was charred with another murcer 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 killinr of a Brooklyn laundryman but the State's witnesses somehow changed their story. and...........---. he got off arain. By this time the subject was rising to power on a Prooklyn waterfront. -e became a pier superintendent