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Here is one for you!
Big Jim's treasure
Big Jim Colosimo liked diamonds. He wore a diamond ring on every finger, diamonds studs in his shirt, and always had a huge diamond-set horseshoe pinned to his vest. Likewise, his belt and suspenders were set with diamonds to match his diamond cufflinks. He bought 100s of diamonds at discount prices from thieves and needy gamblers and carried little buckskin bags of diamonds in his pockets. By 1915 Colosimo was the acknowledged king of prostitution in Chicago, with his brothels generating him a personal net income of over $50,000 a month. He liked to spend his free time stacking his diamonds in little piles on the black cloth on which he played with his little toys.
On May 11, 1920 he was shot dead in the lobby of his own cafe by a mysterious visitor whom he told his wife and business associates he was going to meet. The murder occurred at 4:30 p.m. Colosimo secretary, Frank Camilla, and his chef, Antonio Caesarino, heard the shots from the next room and were on the scene in seconds. Big Jim had $40,000 worth of diamonds still on his person. Just prior to his murder, Big Jim was known to have had something like $500,000 worth of diamonds in addition to large quantities of cash he routinely carried.
Weeks of searching by police, lawyers, wives, ex-wives, and fellow gangster Johnny Torrio who had arranged Big Jim? death failed to uncover the whereabouts of the stones or the cash. It is possible that they were hidden somewhere in his Vernon Avenue mansion or on the grounds??. Colosimo's second wife, Dale Winter, had only been married to Big Jim for about three weeks and had spent less than a week in his mansion when Big Jim was gunned down. If the diamonds were hidden there, it is not likely she would have known the location.
Neither Dale Winter nor Big Jim's ex-wife, Victoria Moresco, claimed any portion of his estate. In all likelihood, they wanted to avoid any suspicion on the part of Torrio and his thugs that they knew the location of the diamonds. Most of Big Jim's holdings, which were conspicuously void of cash or jewels, went to his father and eventually passed into other hands. No one connected with them is known to have ever exhibited signs of sudden wealth.
