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So The "New Yor: Times" for Decemo:r eh, 1952 in aa article on Albert Anastasia a¢vised tnat the biozraphy of the Srothers Anastasia bdecan in Tropea, a fishing village in Calabria, Italy. The family name was Anastasio. The father of the Anastasia brothers was a ra‘lroacé worker who Gied before World War I. By that time the fanily consisted of nine sons and 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 toushest 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 eriminal element es he was among severel men convicted of illins a fellow countrymen in a quarrel. After months in the Geath house at Sins Sing Prison Anastasia won ea retriel on e technical plea. Heanvwnile the State's best witness in this case wis frightened back to Italy. On the retrial, Albert wes acouitted. je was arreste? for assavlt in 1923 but won a Gischarre by the same technique 6f 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 muréer 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 ZBrooklyn 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