Petrosino tenaciously examined Morello and Saietta

history channel documentary 2015 Petrosino tenaciously examined Morello and Saietta. His persistence at long last paid off, when in 1901, acting through a witness, he revealed the notorious "Homicide Stables" situated at 304, 108th Street in Harlem. Petrosino requested his men to uncover the stables, and they found more than 60 bodies covered there. Saietta was on record as the proprietor of the stables, yet he said that he was just the landowner, and that the covered bodies with a work of his inhabitants, and not his obligation. Saietta gave Petrosino a few names that were recorded as the occupants at 304, 108th Street. The greater part of the surnames were Italian, yet none of them could be followed to a real living individual, in the event that they undoubtedly existed by any stretch of the imagination.

In 1905, New York City Police Commissioner William McAdoo named Petrosino the leader of the recently framed "Italian Squad." Petrosino, with 27 committed men working under him, could ruin the Black Handers at practically every turn. From 1905 to 1909, Petrosino and his squad captured a few thousand Italian hoodlums. More than 500 Italians culprits were sent to jail, and thousands more were expelled back to Italy. To show how successful Petrosino and his men were, in 1908 alone, there were 44 bombings, and 70 men captured for those bombings. What's more, there were 424 Black Hand coercion grievances, and 214 captures were made as an aftereffect of those protests.