A couple of days ago while I was working on another story, a man walked into my office, placed a large package on the desk and walked out again. No-one in the office took much notice as there are always people coming and going during the day. The package was addressed to me, so I opened it carefully.

Under the nondescript brown wrapping paper, there was a box and when I opened it I discovered papers- bundles of letters, a heap of handwritten sheets, a couple of slim leather books and some memo slips. I started reading.

After only a couple of minutes, I realized just what had been delivered to me by that anonymous man. The signature on the bottom of one of the sheets was as distinctive as a fingerprint. I was looking at the diaries, notes and letters of the infamous Sonny Williams.

I read for hours, stopping only to top off my coffee cup from the rapidly cooling jug by the window. The shadows lengthened and it was night by the time I left the office, my head reeling from all I had discovered. I wondered why it had come into my hands, who would have given it to me for safekeeping, and the only answer I could come up with was that someone wanted the story told. Someone wanted all the rumours quashed and the truth to come out, and I was the one who had to do it.

So here it is the truth as I read it from the letters and notes, the occasional scribbling in the diary and a handful of old memos. I know it isn't complete, but this was all he wrote- there were too many blank pages and too much speculation, so I have only written about the things that he himself wrote about.

He started as a nobody, a thug, he had never been anything before, just an ordinary man doing an ordinary job, but then he got into petty crime. His first day in the city he looked around and started getting familiar with the territory. He found out about Cain, a Wise-Guy with a crew of about 75 and just about the most powerful man in the Mafia. He sent Cain a message asking to join his crew saying he was going to be the best Mobster Cain had ever seen. Williams also asked what Cain would do for Williams if joined Cain's crew. What he got was laughed at, so he told Cain to fa'getaboutit. Cain replied that he could appreciate a little attitude for a change, and let him live. Already William's attitude was starting to show. In his diary he wrote Cain is the most powerful guy in the country without doubt, and there was me, a thug, talkin shit to him.

He didn't join Cain's crew; he went off and joined up with another crew boss, Rowdy McCann . Williams spent all his spare time getting experience at everything he could, especially honing his killing skills. He used thugs for target practice, back in the days when they weren't protected. He wrote about it in his diary later saying I would wack 10 an hour, sometimes more.

The more he killed, the better he got, and the more skilled he was, the higher up in the crew he got. Within three days he was an Earner and had stopped killing thugs and moved onto Gangsters and Goombas too. His attitude grew the higher up he got, the more he killed, the more self-assured he was.

When he hit Earner status he happened to be passing through Chicago. At that time Cain had a stranglehold on the city, and anyone spending the night paid a tax, either with cash or with their life. Williams was asked for the money, at that point it was $1,000 per night, times your rank. Williams sent back a message asking if that meant Cain wanted $4,000. "You're an Earner already?" came the reply "Why did you join a crew so quick? Why don't you leave it and join mine?". Williams wasn't ready to leave the Rowdy McCann's however, and said he would think about it. Cain obviously had realised that Williams had meant what he said when he first made the comment about being a big player, and realised the opportunity he had missed by not taking Williams into his crew.

Trouble started brewing only a couple of days later when Cain and another crew boss, CrazyHorse seemed to be falling out. McCann and his crew were allied with CrazyHorse, but like most others outfits, McCann was in awe of Cain and didn't want to be on the wrong side of the powerful man. Williams and another of Earners, Joe Kid started preparing the crew for war, telling everyone to ready themselves for what was ahead. Williams was ready and wanted to start the killing, but McCann stopped him, wanting no part in this fight between his allies and a man he feared to stand against. When it was pointed out by Williams that "Allies of CrazyHorse" was part of the crew quotes, McCann made them all take it out, all except Williams and Joe Kid who refused, saying that the family had sworn loyalty to LazyBoy and they weren't backing out of it now. The following day McCann was dead. No-one knew who pulled the trigger, but everyone was sure that Cain was somewhere behind the Killing, if not the finger on the triger itself.

Williams and Joe Kid joined CrazyHorse's crew when McCann's crew dissolved on his death. CrazyHorse decided he wanted nothing to do with Cain's Chicago Tax, and in William's own words "Told him to stick his Chicago Tax up his ass" and refused to pay. Shortly after that conversation, Money-Mac, one of CrazyHorse's Earners turned up dead in Chicago, no warnings, nothing. CrazyHorse knew what had happened, and went out into the streets and publicly declared war on Cain. At that point everybody laughed, because they thought that Cain's and his crew were untouchable. What they did not know was that there were six professional killers in CrazyHorse's crew. - CrazyHorse himself, a man called Tony Ducks, The Priest, Joe Batters, Williams and Joe Kid made up the league of assassins. CrazyHorse and Tony Ducks were better killers than Williams, he even admits it in his writings, but he still had the killing ability to be able to keep up with his boss.

Cain by this point had nearly 90 in his crew. Within two days that number had been reduced to half. William's diary is blank through this period and all he says after is "I killed so many people that I can't remember who most of them were". Thugs were the main casualties in this war with everyone using them as target practice, trying to hone their killing skills, Gangsters were a close second in the dying stakes. This eventually made the Commission made it impossible to kill Thugs just to stop this sort of thing from happening again.

Cain would have fought till his last man fell or he himself was killed, but his right hand man, Carlos Gambino talked him into accepting a truce and the idea was that Gambino would transfer over to CrazyHorse's crew, and Williams and Joe Batters would go to replace him in Cain's. At that point CrazyHorse decided to take an extended holiday, something to do with his health was all he would say, so Joe Batters was left in control of the crew. This put a stop to the plan of the exchange, but it brought about the idea of the Big 5 Syndicate, which would mean 5 Bosses running the 5 Cities.

The Big 5 Syndicate idea was that Cain would hold Chicago, LadyM was going to rule Las Vegas, Gambino would leave Cain's crew and set up his own in New York, Williams would take New Orleans and Joe Batter's himself was to take Los Angeles. At that point two other notable people had crews: Caesar had a crew in New York and Fat Jake had a crew in New Orleans, they were told to disband their crews or die. The same went for anyone else with a crew, there were to be no other crews than the Big 5. Sims was the only Made Man at this point, the rest of the crew bosses were Wise-Guys. However to ensure thus worked CrazyHorse was told to retire or he would be killed within 2 hours of his return.

Part 1 The Saga

im sitting here all Irie, digging it, actually i red and it helpt me get an idea... not biteing material... but how to write, good upcoming...

Good writing. Can't wait to read the second part.

Thanks I appreciate the kind words.