The Grocery of Xavier J. Covfefe
When this photograph was taken, my great grandfather Xavier j. Covfefe was a grocer and confectioneer in the Storyville District of New Orleans. An enterprising man, he worked on inventions late into the night. One of his more notorious inventions became known as the Storyville pocketwatch, as it was used in houses of ill repute throughout Storyville.
Xavier J. Covfee served with the American Expeditionary Forces in the Great War (WW!). He returned home in 1918 minus a leg and eye, to find the bustling Storyville a ghost of it's former self.
A dashing figure with his eye patch and a false leg he fashioned from a bedpost from Mahogany Hall, Covfefe began to recruit the returning men of the 369th Infantry Regiment and formed one of the more notorious enforcement arms of the Matranga family of New Orleans. In 1929 while working for Sylvestro Carolla, Covette saw Al Capone off on a train back to Chicago. But not before disarming his bodyguards and breaking their fingers with a hammer.
While on a scouting expedition to Little Rock Arkansas for his bootleg business, Xavier J. Covette committed suicide. He shot himself twice in the head while staying overnight at the Rodham Inn. His pistol was never recovered. Xavier J. Covfefe is entombed in Metairie Cemetery.
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The Grocery of Xavier J. Covfefe
When this photograph was taken, my great grandfather Xavier j. Covfefe was a grocer and confectioneer in the Storyville District of New Orleans. An enterprising man, he worked on inventions late into the night. One of his more notorious inventions became known as the Storyville pocketwatch, as it was used in houses of ill repute throughout Storyville.
Xavier J. Covfee served with the American Expeditionary Forces in the Great War (WW!). He returned home in 1918 minus a leg and eye, to find the bustling Storyville a ghost of it's former self.
A dashing figure with his eye patch and a false leg he fashioned from a bedpost from Mahogany Hall, Covfefe began to recruit the returning men of the 369th Infantry Regiment and formed one of the more notorious enforcement arms of the Matranga family of New Orleans. In 1929 while working for Sylvestro Carolla, Covette saw Al Capone off on a train back to Chicago. But not before disarming his bodyguards and breaking their fingers with a hammer.
While on a scouting expedition to Little Rock Arkansas for his bootleg business, Xavier J. Covette committed suicide. He shot himself twice in the head while staying overnight at the Rodham Inn. His pistol was never recovered. Xavier J. Covfefe is entombed in Metairie Cemetery.
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