He was killed in 1957 in an attempted murder of a hijacker and tavern owner. Ruth's first husband, Frank Mustari, had been an Outfit connected mobster as well. In 1964, Aleman married Ruth Mustari, a widow with four children. On December 10, 1960, Mr Fanning was found beaten and stabbed to death near his South Side home. When he first met Ruth, she was having trouble with a former boyfriend named Richard Fanning. In 1960, Harry became infatuated with a beautiful young spunky widow named Ruth Mustari who worked at a Rush street bar. READ: Untouchable "Little Jimmy" - Profile of Chicago Mafia boss James Marcello.In 1968, the police arrested him for criminal damage to property and in 1969 for aggravated kidnapping. In 1966, he was charged with grand theft auto and armed robbery. In 1965 police arrested Aleman for aggravated assault.
In 1960, Chicago police arrested Aleman for malicious mischief in 1961 for gambling in 1962 for possession of burglary tools, assault and criminal damage. He told a probation officer that during this time he sold race track tout sheets and worked at the produce markets on the Near West Side, where he sold produce and was able to sell some of his drawings. It seems that Harry Aleman had displayed skill at painting and this ability will provide him with something do during his subsequent incarcerations.Īleman’s official police record starts after graduation from the Academy of Fine Arts. He graduated in 1955, rare for a hoodlum of that generation, and enrolled in the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and graduated in 1958 with a commercial art diploma. His boxing career gave him his nickname “The Hook” because he had a devastating left hook.
He was a halfback on the football team, a member of the physics club and took up boxing at the North Side Duncan YMCA club. Young Harry Aleman excelled at Crane Tech high school from 1951-1955. Harry was given a respite from his father’s abuse when Louis Aleman went to prison for a 4-year robbery bit from about 1946 to 1950. If my mother stepped in, she got hit herself." If I looked at him the wrong way, he beat me. Harry once stated, "My father was hard on me, extremely hard. His mother Mary was an abused wife and Harry would become the target of his father’s angry fists as he grew up.
Years later in a probation interview Harry Aleman described his father Louis Aleman as "sort of a Mexican godfather" who was allegedly involved in narcotics trafficking. All her extended family of uncles, aunts and cousins lived in and around this house in a neighborhood just west and south of Chicago’s Loop. Aleman’s maternal grandmother was of Sicilian heritage and she owed a 3-floor brownstone style building at 917 S. Well, Harry “The Hook” Aleman was a similar collector and enforcer for Joe Ferrolia and the Taylor Street Crew.Īleman’s mother was Italian, his Mexican father was a native of Durango, Mexico. Chicago Outfit associate and government agent Red Wemette described Frank “the Geman” Schweisch as the collector and enforcer for Joe Lombardo and the Grand Avenue Crew. He was an important tool in the Outfit’s enforcement of street tax on bookmakers and other gray area businesses like porn shops and the bar business. He has been accused of as many as 18 murders by the Chicago Crime Commission and most folks believe that number is way low. He was born Harry Peralt Aleman on Januin Chicago.
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In the first of a 4-part series documenting the life and violent crimes of this notorious thief, enforcer, juice loan collector, and hitman I recount how Aleman’s criminal career began. Harry “The Hook” Aleman was one of the Chicago Outfit’s most feared mobsters.
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