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The shout drew Michael Fiaschetti’s attention to the figure silhouetted in the dim gray light passing through the hotel window.Fiaschetti was on selfimposed guard duty, ostensibly protecting barber Bartolo Fontano from gangsters who wished him dead but secretly working to squeeze a big confession out of the small, skinny 28yearold who had requested his help.Det. Sgt. Michael FiaschettiFiaschettiA detective sergeant in official rank with the New York Police Department, Fiaschetti was serving at the time as acting captain in charge of the department’s Italian Squad. In that job, the 39yearold Brooklynite had large shoes to fill. Previous Italian Squad leader Lieutenant Joseph Petrosino had become a legend since being martyred in March 1909 on an official trip to Palermo, Sicily.2Fiaschetti, however, was well equipped for the job. He was tall and muscular – he once described himself as “husky enough to make a reputation as a piano mover.”3 So his was a particularly imposing presence among the generally moderatesized residents of New York’s Little Italies.Fiaschetti was both street smart and savvy to the internal politics of the police department. Another asset was his relationship with the press.Newsmen in that highly competitive era for print media were hungry for sensation, and the cigarchewing Fiaschetti knew how to deliver it, while keeping his name conveniently attached. Finally, Fiaschetti possessed the ability to crawl into the mind of a perpetrator. That knack served him well in his dealings with Fontano.

 

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