sentences:  Joseph Saltis
  
  Joseph Francis Saltis, (8 September 1894 – 2 August 1947), known as "Polack Joe", was a Slovakian-American Prohibition gangster who, with Frank McErlane, operated an illegal bootlegging racket in the Back of the Yards neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois until his territory was seized by Al Capone and he fled to Wisconsin.Saltis was born in Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire to Slovaks Jakob Saltis (from Spiš) and Maria Polaczek (from Šarišská, Prešov) and immigrated to the United States in 1905, becoming a saloon owner in Joliet, Illinois.