According to one account, Albori came from "the Tyrol mountains on the border of Austria and Italy," emigrating around 1910 and landing in Seattle, where he found work in "swindling" with "procuring and pimping as a sideline".

[2] In contrast with his patron Crawford and his partner Chito,[2] "Marco bumbled his way into the newspapers and onto the public scene several times before his 1928 arrest, trial, and subsequent incarceration on two counts of assault, with a deadly weapon".

[4] Marco and Chito ultimately ran a couple dozen whorehouses "scattered through the downtown district and along the edges" staffed by "about 200 prostitutes".

[5] On the evening of June 27, 1928, Marco was welcomed to the Ship Cafe in Venice, California by restauranteur and retired boxer Tommy Jacobs.

According to one witness—a friend of one of the men who was shot, the trouble started after Marco approached him and made a derogatory comment about his dancing partner, implying she was a prostitute".

[8] As told by the writers of "The Lid Off Los Angeles" series published in Liberty magazine in 1939, "Marco insulted a woman one night in the Ship Café in Venice, California.

"[9] In the wee hours of June 28, Marco was arrested by officer John Brunty, and eventually put on trial for assault with a deadly weapon in the shooting of Dominick Conterno and Harry Judson.

In 1952 a Daily News staff writer named Jack Strange claimed that Marco was still alive and living in Venice, Italy, where he ran a restaurant.