Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-01-28
APPLIES FOR JOB Of
CLEANING OUT
NEW YORK GANGS
lack Sirocco, King of ToughS,
Declares He Would Clear
Metropolis Of Gun Fighters
Quickly if Given Chance

Quickly if Given Chance,
lsrretA1 eoRetsrosoGNcs 70 sosatNe JOURNAL
New YORK, Jan 2I There is no
need for gangs and gWuLghters IN as
alice city as ours; il were given the
job ! would clean The town of gum
ghtcrs i'm less than week An 1
want rs ton good, strong. bravo meu
W lot aus have good stick coch 60
tack us up, aud we viii put the gum
fighters cat OF business Yes IL
Mayor Mitchell should ask mc thal s
The WdY I would do # and would
CLEAN hfa town for him tn less than
uo Time"
The foregoing statement was made
ty JaDk Siroccu. who the police say s
one of fine toughest men ia town. but
Who insists that his reputation SIS aus
to the newspapers Not chat SrucCo
insists he is an angel. He admits he
is q fighter bu; he insists he does not
believe In shooting and says the only
way to settle q dispute lis with the
fists.
sirocco is rather understood man.
with dark brown eyes, a round and
rudy face, and coal black hair He
has a short and very Fat neck and
very heavy iaW He was born az
40 As Mott street thirty-one years
ago, and has been in this city mort
OF the time since Just now he "
handling prizefighters.
In order TO learn the views Of o.
real gangster, reporter called on
Sirocco in clubhouse on the lower
Bowery Wen dressed mcn We're
playing pool
I'm glad you've asked me To talk,
said Sirocco THE trouble has been
that the men you people call
gangsters haven't had chance 10
tell their side in the newspapers
You know / used to be in the newspa-
per business myself used 20 carry
'hickcys.
The reporter confessed ignorance Of
such an attachment TO newspaper.
THE big bundles that we carry oui
of the press room and load on the
wagons are called 'hickeys eN-
planned Srocco. after I got through
with that job / was truck driver
Then I opened saloon on Park RoW
and that was the finish of il all From
that time on / got 10 be known as d
tough guy, just because / wanted to
carry on my business in my own
way
sirocco was asked to tell how the
recent shootings came about.
IL was this way, he answered.
There was strike on Greene street
aud the two sides went TO Madison
Square Garden TO settle things
think ! was sent for by somebody
connected with the six-day bike race
that was being pulled or just then
This man said To me Say Jack,
see what Won cahs do with the mob.
There seems to be trouble due here.
So I said l would attend TO ii,
Il saw two OF my mob and ] told
them to go home guess they did.
Then I talked with the other fellows
and ! gave them the same advice And
they took IT, Then / went home my
self
THE next morning when ! got up
] went back to the Garden and as /
got i'm some newsboys rushed up. and
they were crying "Extree! An about
sirocco and his gang hiring hundred
shots ia tho Garden"
That was the first | know about it,
] knew I'd been home in bed and
sound asleep when this muss took
place. j guess some OF the gang came
back again.
NOW, all had TO do with that
fight was that ! acted na pcaeomaker
Bun then had that awful reputation
ana everything went Then they had
another headline, reading Jack si-
rocco and Jimmy Kelly gung az war
in Madison Square Garden Nov,
that Eun-nghtng ia front of Airing
ton hall where that poor old man
was shot, came out of the scrap that
was started that morning In Madison
Square Garden.
isn't IL possible that out ~ all
this shooting some was done by your
friends and followers" asked the RE-
porter
Maybe" replied Siroceo. ITS this
way [ see lot of these faces and
they hello me and / hello them back
That's the way they do things. | got
the reputation Of being a bad man
and lots of these young fellows hello
me for that reason. They think they
can get some reputation by that So
] just hello back to them. That's an.
Half Of that mob / don't know at all.
SO far as Chick Tricca and / are con-
cerned, we're good friends. He's look
ing for living. same as am. II
can stop gang shooting I'll do IL an
the time
But" ventured the reporter, I'll
YOU are such an abused man how was
II possible for you to have got such
an evil reputation
ON tell you, answered siroceo
promptly. "That reputation goes
with the running Of "a Joint"
Then you did run a joint2"
That's what the police and You
newspaper men called IL, he flashed
back. You run a joint and the first
thing the police tell you is that you're
The head OF a gans and It hangs about
.,e,,r t,tnt ran "a UInee on PARK