Rocco Perri
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- Rocco Perri moved to the US when he was 16, with forged papers and lies about meeting family
- These Baloney Americans!
- This job makes me so grummy!
- He worked in New York for 4 years as a laborer
- Mooch New York!
- At the age of 20 he moved to Northern Ontario
- His first illegal activites were done with the Black Hand, hiring a man to burn down the home of a rich italian family who refused to pay them back but got caught therefore he ran away
- Rocco lay off, I will get you!!
- Which led him to run from to Toronto where he met Besha Toben who let him stayed at her home with her family (bessie starkman)
- Thank you dame for letting me stay at your home
- well of course! you pay good jack
- Eventually having an affair and running off to st.catharines then hamilton where they had a bakery being a guise for a brothel
- Our brothel is running so well
- Yes! we are making good profit
- in 1916 Canada went dry
- Canada is going dry! All bars are closed and liquor stores, selling of any alcoholic beverages will be send over.
- We can bootleg booze!
- Quebec was the only place in Canada who legally had access to booze so they bought from there.
- Starting their bootlegging business by selling at the back of their home
- That's the crop of the jack! I am ready to get smoked on shine!
- Double two bits!
- That's a good idea!
- We should expand!
- Selling booze at hotels
- Selling booze at bars
- ...and overseas
- Leading them to be one of the most successful bootleggers at their time, due to Rocco's connections and Bessie's business skills
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