Camillo Ubriaco
Alias: Charles Ubriaco
Born: 1867
Nationality:
Died: September 7th 1916
Where: Johnson St and Hudson Avenue
Cause: Shot
Killer: Thomas carillo and Lefty Esposito
Camillo Ubriaco, later Americanized to Charles, arrived in New York August 27th 1907. Ubriaco was a resident of Harlem for nine years before his death in 1916.
On June 24th 1916 a meeting took place at Coney Island between the Sicilian Morello gang, the Neapolitan Navy Street gang and the Neapolitan Coney Island gang. The idea of the meeting was to discuss the expansion of gambling dens in lower Manhattan.
Even though the two gangs worked alongside each other for sometime, the Camorra devised a plan to kill the Morellos. Morano had been running a policy game in Harlem, the realm of the Morello family, but could not make it pay enough to cover the rake that the Morellos demanded from him, another factor was the killing of Nicolo Del Gaudio had angered Allesandro Vollero and he now wanted the Morellos dead. The Neopolitans believed they could taken over the Harlem rackets if they could eliminate the Morello leadership. They hatched a plan where they would try and lure the entire Morello leadership down to Brooklyn and ambush them.
On September 7th 1916, Nicholas Terranova and Charles Ubriaco travelled downtown to meet with the Navy St gang, where they were both murdered.
