The fellow, Wes Hottdorf, flew with me and had been a member of the Chicago mafia.
"The Biography of a Rabbit"
Roy Benson, Jr.
Blaine was compelled to face another embarrassing situation in dealing with Italy in 1891-1892. In October, 1890, the chief of police of New Orleans, D.C. Hennessy, had been murdered and circumstances indicated that the deed had been committed by members of an Italian secret society called the mafia.
"The United States Since The Civil War"
Charles Ramsdell Lingley
His society had a lot of evidence regarding former members of both the Camorra in Naples and the mafia in Sicily, as well as the Black Hand gangs in New York, Chicago, and other cities.
"Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3"
Collected and Arranged by Francis J. Reynolds