Editing Paul Kelly Association (section)

==Composition and alliances==
The association was primarily Italian-American. The evidence reviewed does not support the familiar formula that Kelly founded a predominantly Irish gang or that his core organization had a settled Italian-Irish-Jewish membership balance. Jewish and Eastern European gangsters were especially prominent in the rival Eastman network, while individual crews and alliances crossed ethnic lines.<ref name="Informer" /> John “Kid Griffo” Cucco was a well-supported lieutenant, and the association paid for Thomas “Eat-'em-up Jack” McManus's funeral in 1905. Jack Sirocco and Johnny Torrio commanded allied or separately organized crews and should not automatically be treated as Kelly subordinates.<ref name="Informer" />

Biographers describe Torrio's [[James Street Gang]] as allied or affiliated with the Five Points network. Robert J. Schoenberg says Torrio “allied his James Streeters with the Five Points gang,” and John Kobler calls Torrio's organization an “affiliated gang.”<ref name="Schoenberg">Robert J. Schoenberg, [https://books.google.com/books?id=zTLSKm2cby0C&pg=PT31 ''Mr. Capone''] (William Morrow, 1992), chapter 2.</ref><ref name="Kobler">John Kobler, [https://books.google.com/books?id=79AhDnSpZhQC&pg=PA26 ''Capone: The Life and World of Al Capone''] (Da Capo Press edition), p. 26.</ref>