Sal was born 1911 in Elizabeth New Jersey when he was five and six years old he would make mud little sculptures of people having sex it was actually sculptures of his father an the live in made when Sal turned 14 years old he made a devil mask and costume and dressed up as the devil at the time Saint Anthony’s Church were he was going to school had a lot of scaffolding around the church steeple he climbed it at 9 o’clock at night starting screaming an acting crazy like the devil the fire department police department big giant spotlights They got him down they got him down it’s a published story 1925 Elizabeth daily journal the church took him under their wing while he was helping in the church he learned to play the piano started reading books on hypnotism and reading peoples minds at the age of 17 he served Some time for armed robbery of course he was innocent after he got out of jail he went directly to Chicago to work for his father’s cousin Frank Costello in to nightclubs the Otis beer tunnel and the Peacock lounge this was during prohibition and the Al Capone days check out all the original ads on this site After sales aventures in Chicago his life really took off that’s why there’s a book coming out the masked man photographer mind reading hypnotist