"He must have done something. They don't kill you for nothing." - Chicago Gangster Ted Newberry. Rubbed out January 7, 1933

Thursday, January 29, 2015

Harlem Nocturne

Twenty-five year old Joseph Amastasi was well known in Harlem’s Little Italy as a“liberal spender whose source of income was unknown”. At 11:00pm, eighty-four years ago tonight, two employees of a coal company heard a couple of shots and went to investigate. They found Amastasi dead with two bullets in his back.Why was Amastasi killed? Let's check with the magic 8 ball....."ask again"...Why was Amastasi killed?..."Outlook not good". I don't have time for this someone else give it a shake and let me know what it says.

2 comments:

John DuMond said...

He was shot by the piper. Amastasi forgot to pay him, and you know how that always turns out.

Patrick Downey said...

Some people just never learn.