Giuseppe Guillambardo

Giuseppe Guil­lam­bardo arrived in New York from Palermo in Novem­ber 1902. He lived with his broth­ers at 28 Sec­ond Avenue. On 31^st Decem­ber 1902, the Secret Ser­vice, act­ing on a tip off, fol­lowed Guil­lam­bardo, Giuseppe De Primo and Isadoro Cro­cervera as they walked along Main Street. They were sus­pected of pass­ing coun­ter­feit five dol­lar bills in pre­cise imi­ta­tion to the cur­rency issued by the National Iron Bank, Mor­ris­town, New Jer­sey. The ser­vice men wit­nessed the men pass­ing the bad notes and placed them under arrest, how­ever Guil­lam­bardo man­aged to break free. He was arrested two months later after being spot­ted at a 226 Eliz­a­beth Street, a café belong­ing to Pietro Inz­er­illo of the Morello gang.

On March 12^th 1903, the trial began,  Sal­va­tore Romano of the Frauto gang was released on the first day, the rea­sons for this are unclear. The fol­low­ing day, all three men were found guilty. Guil­lam­bardo was sen­tenced to 5 years at Sing Sing, Giuseppe De Primo 4 years and Isadoro Cro­cervera 3 years. Detec­tive Flynn revealed that dur­ing their ques­tion­ing he gave Cro­cervera the impres­sion that De Primo had con­fessed all, in an effort to get him to con­fess also.