Editing Johnny Torrio (section)

==Early life==
Torrio was born in [[Irsina]] (then known as Montepeloso), [[Basilicata]], in [[Southern Italy]], to Tommaso Torrio and Maria Carluccio originally from [[Altamura]], Apulia.<ref name="De Tullio">{{cite web|last=De Tullio|first=Maurizio| date=May 18, 2015|title=Non era orsarese Johnny Torrio, padre putativo di Al Capone|language=it|url = http://letteremeridiane.blogspot.it/2015/05/non-era-orsarese-johnny-torrio-padre.html|access-date=June 17, 2016}}</ref> When he was two his father, a railway employee, died in a [[work accident]]; shortly after, Torrio immigrated to James Street on the [[Lower East Side]] of New York City with his widowed mother in December 1884.<ref name="De Tullio"/> She later remarried.

His first jobs were as a porter and bouncer in Manhattan. While he was a teenager, he joined a street gang together with another James Street resident [[Robert Vanella]] and became its leader;<ref>{{Cite web|last=Hunt|first=Thomas|date=June 2015|title=Just how organized was Calabrian organized crime?|url=http://mafiahistory.us/a031/f_calabrian.html|access-date=June 27, 2020|website=The American Mafia – The History of Organized Crime in the United States}}</ref> he eventually managed to save enough money and opened a billiards parlor for the group, and from there grew illegal activities such as gambling and loan sharking. Torrio's business sense caught the eye of [[Paul Kelly (criminal)|Paul Kelly]], the leader of the [[Five Points Gang]]. Torrio's gang ran legitimate businesses, but its primary concern was the [[numbers game]], supplemented by incomes from bookmaking, loan sharking, hijacking, prostitution, and opium trafficking. [[Al Capone]], who worked at Kelly's club, admired Torrio's quick mind and looked to him as his mentor.<ref>{{cite book|last=Sifakis|first=Carl|title=The Mafia Encyclopedia|publisher=Infobase Publishing|year=2006|page=168}}</ref>

Capone had belonged to the Junior Forty Thieves, the [[Bowery Boys (gang)|Bowery Boys]] and the Brooklyn Rippers; they soon moved up to the Five Points Gang.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Burch|first1=Brian|last2=Stimpson|first2=Emily|title=The American Catholic Almanac: A Daily Reader of Patriots, Saints, Rogues, and Ordinary People Who Changed the United States|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w50sDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA17|access-date=October 5, 2017|date=March 21, 2017|publisher=Image Books|isbn=978-0-553-41874-3|page=17}}</ref> One of Torrio's associates, [[Frankie Yale]], eventually hired Capone to bartend at the Harvard Inn, a bar in the [[Coney Island]] section of Brooklyn.<ref name="LScarface">{{cite web|first=Marilyn|last=Bardsley|url=http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/gangsters_outlaws/mob_bosses/capone/scarface_4.html|title= Scarface|access-date=March 29, 2008|work=Al Capone|publisher=Crime Library|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104161021/http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/gangsters_outlaws/mob_bosses/capone/scarface_4.html |archive-date=November 4, 2013}}</ref>