A Little History In and Around Buffalo, NY

  as published in the Buffalo Courier-Express SUICIDE THEORY GIVEN; CALABRO BOX MYSIFIES Police learn nationally known racketeers visited Niagara Falls this week  special to Courier-Express Niagara Falls, Dec 12 - Police admitted today they had no progress in their effort to solve the mystery surrounding the finding of a box containing clothing and personal papers of John G Calsbro, 301 Monroe Street, Brooklyn, including a telegram from Al Capone, Chicago racketeer, in an automobile owned by Joseph Duce, 181 Sixteenth Street. They gave some consideration to the theory Calabro may have committed suicide here, because the box is believed by Duce to have been placed in his car while it was parked in Riverway a short distance from the brink of the American Falls. Search of the riverbank revealed nothing to bear out the suicide theory.  Police are still waiting to learn the whereabouts of Calabro. According to press dispatches from New York he is at liberty on bail, pending an...

as published from Olean Times Hearld in 1973. By Mike Abdo This a story Chuck Ward or Chuck Pollock should be doing, something that is right up their talented literay alley. . . but they were only "So High" when it happened.   It's a story that Bob Daviex can't do because he wasn't traveling in this circle...so, it's one that I'll have to tell.   Not that it's a chore - far from it, considering the memories - but there will have to be a number of read-it-between - the -lines areas for you and, of necessity only a few will be named.   It's the Jack Hord story ... the story of Jack Hord as I know him from the mid 1930s and on. The complete Jack Hord story would require a number of other chronicles who could travel back further, to the Prohibition era, to World War I and before that.    JACK HORD - the fellow that an old boss of mine, John Morton, use to call "Jason" and "the Lord of the Manor" - came to the end of life's ...