ziconette

I guess I hadn't clicked on zashibis's link, which is to the same report of a decision that I discuss at #7. So it isn't independent evidence as I thought. It could be something like a baccarat shoe, nutrax. I bet if the 2nd had had a clear idea of what it was, they would have described it.

In case people don't understand the "five families, five boxes" part of nutrax's quote, for a long time organized crime in New York was dominated by five "families", of which the Gambino family mentioned in the Zingaro case was one.

Another try. Zigonetta. Pennsylvania Folklife Society - 1973

The writer is apparently looking at bocce in (I think) south Philly. This snippet is about private clubs located in old Italian Beneficial Societies. The informant is talking about what his 83 year old father says about why nonmembers are strictly excluded.
>This informant said that there were also fears that an outsider might be a policeman intent upon stopping their gambling games. One gambling game which is played in many of these clubs is zigonetta, a rapid card game of pure chance in which a man might lose hundreds of dollars in a in a few minutes (interview of May 11, 1973).