Jack Parisi, who has been described by the Pennsylvania Crime Commission and a United States Senate investigator as a gunman for the crime syndicate called Murder Inc. in the 30's, died Monday night at his home here.
Mr. Parisi, who had been ill for several years, was 83 years old.
The Luzerne County deputy coroner, Andrew Piskel, said that he died of natural causes.
Mr. Parisi had lived in Hazleton since the 1930's and, according to the crime commission, was part of the Russell Bufalino crime family. Mr. Parisi, nicknamed the Dandy, had owned the Irene Dress Company in Hazleton, a concern that the crime commission said he established along with Albert Anastasia, who was described as the head of Murder Inc.
The commission also identified Mr. Parisi as production manager of the Nuremberg Dress Company in Schuylkill County and manager of the Madison Dress Company in Hazleton.
He was born in Calabria, Italy, and emigrated to the United States in 1920. He served nearly six years in Federal prisons at Atlanta and Leavenworth, Kan., for the single narcotics conviction on his record.
In 1951, Senator Herbert O'Connor, speaking at a Senate Crime Investigating Committee hearing in Washington, described Mr. Parisi as a ''triggerman'' for Murder Inc. He was described that way again in the Pennsylvania Crime Commission report in 1980.
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