Giuseppe Boscarelli (abt. 1850 - 1919)

Born about 1850 in Corleone, Palermo, Sicilia

Died 28 Aug 1919 at about age 69 in South Bend, Fulton County, Georgia

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Biography

Giuseppe Boscarino, alias Monte, is said to be from Corleone, born around 1850.^[1]

Giuseppe emigrates in 1890. In New York City, he is known to be a "good friend" of Don Vito Cascio Ferro. Boscarelli, known as "Boscarino" and sometimes as "Giuseppe Monte," owns a pool room. He distributes counterfeit bills for Morello's gang in 1903, at time of the “barrel murder.” He is arrested at that time but not brought to trial.^[2]

Giuseppe is the described as an old man from Corleone, who distributes counterfeit bills for Giuseppe Morello, when he is identified to Secret Service by a storekeeper.^[3] He is convicted 10 December 1910 for passing counterfeit bills an sentenced to fifteen years in prison.^[4][5]

Giuseppe is imprisoned near Atlanta, along with most of his co-conspirators in the counterfeiting operation. While in prison, he violates prison rules on multiple occasions. He is denied parole twice.^[3]

Guiseppe Boscarini, white, incarcerated at age 61, born around 1849, incarcerated 16 December 1910 by court in New York, NY. Incarcerated in Georgia, USA. Release date 10 January 1921. Crime, possession and conspiracy to utter. Penitentiary number 3209.^[6]

Death of Giuseppe

Giuseppe dies in prison, on 28 August 1919, from a hernia. He is too poor for his wife to bring his body home for burial. He is carried by his fellow counterfeiters to a Christian burial, per his wife's request.^[3] Guiseppi Boscarini is buried in Atlanta, Fulton County, GA.^[7][8]

Sources

1. ↑ Black, Jon. Giuseppe Boscarino. https://www.gangrule.com/biographies/giuseppe-boscarino Accessed 19 April 2017.
2. ↑ The Barrel Murder Mystery. http://www.onewal.com/a027/f_flynn.html
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} Black, Jon. Giuseppe Boscarino. https://www.gangrule.com/biographies/giuseppe-boscarino Accessed 19 April 2017.
4. ↑ http://mafiahistory.us/maf-chr2.html
5. ↑ Critchley, D. (2009). The Origin of Organized Crime in America: The New York City Mafia, 1891-1931. New York: Routledge.
6. ↑ Ancestry.com. Georgia, U.S., U.S. Penitentiary Atlanta, Prisoner Index, 1880-1922 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009.
7. ↑ Ancestry.com. Fulton and Campbell Counties, Georgia, Cemetery Records, 1857-1933 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2019.
8. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/227582001/guiseppi-boscarini: accessed 31 July 2023), memorial page for Guiseppi Boscarini (1849–Aug 1919), Find a Grave Memorial ID 227582001, citing Atlanta Federal Penitentiary Cemetery, Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, USA; Maintained by Walk The Earth -J.K.Wilson (contributor 46578531).