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N r- r Giuseppe Gf t P oreno florello I r I I These These ar are ar the men whose li lives lines e. e would wool d 11 1 I r 1 n be forfeit t If tr their names were ere revealed a aan at atan atan t 1 nt I t an investigation on I J would Mould welcome an ar n 1 investigation tion of the Secret Service which h 11 of II y would ouid not Dot cripple It but I will never neer d di divulge di di- di i noise the names of ef those men who ar are arc C Ill j ft r fighting fig quietly and without fame or glory tor y I t I for the sake of their government t au and d I decency I would rot in prison before I Ij William Flynn Chief of the Secret Service Department of the East Is Marked for Assassination and Members of the Lupo- Lupo Morello orello B Band nd Are Trying to Force Foree an Investigation V f gation g tion Which Would Reveal the Names Nam s of Five Men of the Secret Service Who Have Gained the Inner Coun Councils of the Mafia in in n America I Et 1912 AL by DT the New York Herald Co All rights p ne-d. ne I t PO THE WOLF is in the federal deral prison on at Atlanta with U IlPO twenty three renty-three three rears years of a men men- i five fire year ear sentence to encIn serve en In another cell In the same prison Is Giuseppe GinsePPe eppe Morello Moreno of ot th that the tha ft s lieutenant but the whelps a If t f AW are abroad and from rom his barred 1 the dreaded Sicilian still is directing fends and operations of the Mafia in int t erica at the tb arrest and conviction con of seven the the clan of The Wolf Yol two years ago ngo snot mot resulted In the thc extermination of bend Dd of counterfeiters is ia evidenced by fact that the organization has carried fight Into the very home of William Yil am Flynn Chief of the United States Se Se- Service Sen Department of the East and also forcing a fight to bring about an Instigation of the Secret Service ice Bu- Bu would result In the divulging the names of five men in the employ the government who are close to the 4 circles circles' of various petty bands banda f A- A Ich ch go to make mako up op the solidarity to the police and the S Secret ret Service the Morello trpo band or the Mafia America erica ese esc five fi men are arc feared by the Mafia i no other human agency is feared for forfar forfar far ar all efforts to learn their identity ve TC been futile and plot after plot plott t toiled atc itched ed by the counterfeiters has been Toiled w oiled by information reaching the chief jailed 1 I lithe the Secret Service through roundabout I P. P r erious channels from these men A Ar ieper of their names to the he members of the band are known to toon toI I on Hans and Chief Flynn says that within p sPan span of a single day their I bodies old mid be found in sewers for or cramped in tongues slit and limbs limbo mutilated d. tt It C is is the thc desperate straits into which e iA- iA Mafia has been driven which are r rr rc- rc bIe for this this f forlorn hope the hope the effort r 11 force an investigation of the bureau L learn the names of these five men L LL ese se wort worK lies U m rn the me underworld Secret Service Men in Mafia I 1 11 i It t took me years ears to lo get these men into I inner Dinner councils of the life Mafia said of f Flynn recently and the the they have haTe given me has been e. e e. e Without them the tribe of The I IP f would be as ns unfettered as it was wase wast t ee e years a ao ago o when it had succeeded eded In t ting inS into circulation OOOO in coun- coun eit two and five dollar bills bells The mak mak- public the names of those thO o five men menns jus ns IlS not only th their ir death but the tho par par- sis is i. of the arm o of f the thc Secret Service Sen t the opening of the June term tenn of District Court of the Ule United States N N N. Y L Justice George Ray I was jealously guarded by S Secret ret t rice ice e men mec who were stationed at dint dif dif- nt points inside and surrounding thet the rt t t house because of T a letter received the e Justice during the trial of Lupo I. I l Morello Th e letter was not signed i It stated stated stated- if 3 Lupo Morello and their t cir compan- compan are re not liberated you rou will die like og or og We Ye have killed better men than 1 or Smith or Flynn r gel bel I. I Smith was the thc Assistant Dist Dis Dis- t At Attorney torney who pros prosecuted the rho coun coon elters and Flynn aided by his bis five B is the man w who o was responsible for tracking tracking down an and arresting of them I was w because of the work of Chief Chie iJ nn's five m members of the Mafia that iet Service men began Legan to 10 watch Y azio Lupo known as Thu Wolf YoU r c. c 0 o di i Luca and Pete the Ox iu in ther the theng theng ng nb of 1 1903 03 A man named Giuseppe Primo rimo convicted of was cou counterfeiting sent tent to Sin Sing Sin Sing Benedetto Mao Ma- Ma Bio Io o visited Di Primo In iu prison and autI was was was' v is tt 1 commissioned to collect funds in in New NewYork NewYork ew York forthe the benefit of the prisoner Secret Si Se St- 1 cret Service ice men followed Madonio for Heels weeks They tracked him to his eating h places to his bis lodgings and watched d h his move moc They learned every mery that he was he-was was beseeching the three suspects for funds William Dam J. J Flynn FInn I i J r Pr C at Lupo G C lh II 1 J i fr fr r sr r ry v rr r b h i r t IV I V f TP 1 f t J i r at tin w Ya t r orN tulo The Eight Prisoners Gazed Gated Tra Tranquilly but Grimly at ComKo Comito the Sheep ep an and they watched and waited hoping to get i e evidence that would implicate the others Spies who had furnished information to Chief Flynn about the workings of the band were simultaneously keeping the thc bureau posted and the men who shadowed Madonio end and his three friends did not know who these spies epics were Perhaps they i shadowed them too for the spies arc are accredited ac- ac ac accredited credited members of or the band and none in the S Secret Service ever er speaks to them theme I save e Flynn himself The learned that they were being watched and suspected Madonio of being an informant in in the interests int of or the Secret Service 13 Flynns Flynn's men may I have lla known of the plotted murder of Madonio Ma Ma- donio donlo but if so they were powerless to avert it Many a n grim secret they are forced to conceal One morning in April 1003 Madonio Iad nio was found murdered d a at t the corner of Eleventh street and a avenue anU nU D New York city Lupo Di Luca and the Ox were arrested by the police but they were su subsequently discharged When G Giuseppe u Di Primo in iu prison heard of Benedetto Madonio's death he lie swore a vendetta against the trio that he declared had murdered his friend and forsaken him Upon his release he tracked Petro Pello the tho Ox who was a wrestler to Pa On Trail of the Wolf Tommaso was liv living n there in a cottage On the evening of the third day after Di Primo was released from SIn Slug Sing Sing the Ox heard beard the old familiar call of his bis band Taking a n revolver he walked calmly to his door and threw It open From the tho pathway leading to the str street t a a. Pet Pe to pistol flashed at the same Instant fired but he be missed ha having been shot shot through the heart at the very er instant his bis fin finger er pulled the tri trigger er Giuseppe di diPrimo Prime Primo then calmly emptied his revolver into the body o or of the Ox Joe Petrosino then lien a sergeant of de do- detectives de- de went t to lo alre and started and to to trail Di Primo Secret Service m men n assisted assisted as as- him bu but t before be ho could catch him Di Primo Prime had bad escaped to Italy According to a Secret Service ice man who was In lu a 0 position to know the facts Vito di Luca had heard of Di Primos Primes vendetta and had fled to I Italy tal shortly before the expiration of the counterfeiters counterfeiter's sentence Di Primo followed him there and in the spring of 1008 the second of the trio who had refused to assist him was shot to death Although h Di Primo Prime was killed in Ital Italy and andI I that had bad the former fonner lived H the vendetta the murderer of Di mica Luca was never nc brought to trial Secret Service Ser men say I IL J 4 1 a io Lupo jf The The- he Wolf woo rya Y i I for murder Secret Service men could at it any ahr time have informed the police of I his bis whereabouts but no effort wens was ever made to deport him or to to turn him over o to tolie the lie Italian governments This was outside outside out out- side Sib the province o of the Secret Service This is not exactly the fault of the police said Chief Flynn These bands are arc protected by br money and by political influence I do not blame either political party exclusively Both protect these Of bands band for one reason or another cour course c besides es being able to collect thousands thousands thou Ulon sands ands of or dollars doHan from Italians and Sicilians Sicil inns ians they are arc able to sway wa hundreds of The police votes by terrorizing citizens are arc t to td a certain extent powerless because of the powerful po backing these men get from politicians Since Lupo and some of his pals have hao been imprisoned members mem mom bc hers bers qC Jr the band have collected almost to be used in an nn effort to have I Tomasso Pelto The Ox Oz t I I i ii i 1 i itie 1 r 1 li l dr 1 vJ ti o d the George W W. Bay Salvatore Santo Saitta would probably have been completed and Lupo the Wolf would not now be in th the federal pris prison ou fighting for freedom I Lupo only gained strength th by bythe bythe the death of his two confederates conf and become became became be be- came come the leader of the Lupo Morello band which Secret Service men men sa say is really the Mafia rafia in America Although the Secret ice Service spies were powerless to prevent pre t thc these murders among the law breakers the quarrels between members of the band helped them to their ends aud and in the thc fall of they had bad put so o great a mass of evidence in Chief Flynns Flynn's hands that the arrest of the counterfeiters began S Seven of them including Lupo the Wolf Volf olf were arrested d In hi a farmhouse near Highland N. N NY Y where they were making counterfeit United States and Canadian monc money With ith the greatest of assurance when hen he was arrested Ignazio nazio Lupo offered a consi considerable bribe to Chief Flynn Morello was arrested In New York and andin andin in his rooms his wife was found sitting on ona onn a n pile of letters which appeared to have hae been sent to various merchants demanding money tribute to the tile band These letters Jetters had been returned to the writers with the monc money asked for A At t his bis trial in the Criminal Criminal Crim Crim- inal Branch of the United States District Court Lupo confessed to the murder of a n aman aman man in Sicily He lie was a n business man he lie said eaid who owed o him GOO lire and Lupo was forced to kill kiJI him in self The Italian authorities tell ten a different stor story and accor according ing to Mr r. r Flynn the police of New ci York have been aware for forten forten ten years that Lupo was wanted at home them liberated This money is forced from residents of Italian Italian and and Sicilian colonies colonies col col- I col-I onies in all the cities of the world It is collected by the compari or godfathers of the prisoners and by b men under them An equal amount of money has already been spent in the fight to liberate these men It comes from Tunis Algiers Liverpool Liverpool Liv Liv- New Orleans St. St r uis New NewYork NewYork NewYork York and Rn every other big city cit of the world where there are any considerable number of Italians J JIt It his has been learned by one high in the Secret Service that last lost December two men visited Lupo In the prison at Atlanta They were ordered to assassinate te C Chief l Flynn l nn One of the Secret Service men who appears on the tho roll books merely as s. s J r number learned of this and informed Mr Ir Flynn IJ 1111 This TIlis man is one of the thc five who ire are are high bi h in the council of or the Lupo- Lupo Morelo gang The greatest precautions are arc taken by Mr Flynn ari and his llis men Even in Ills his in the Custom House New cw York city the most careful watch watch is kept k pt My Iy children never venture a hundred feet from frolD the house except under the tIle protection pro pro- of some dependable person said Mr fr Flynn nn I have ve received many letera letters letters let let- era the writers of which threatened to kidnap my chil children ren but worse than this my mj spies have informed me of several plots with the same purpose in view The I letters nUl may be fakes but these men who know every Cry move mo of or the Mafia IJ have vc time and again frustrated the kidnapping schemes or warned me mc of them I I These These ar are ar the men whose li lives lines e. e would wool d 11 1 I be forfeit t If tr their names were ere revealed a aan at atan atan t 1 I an investigation on I J would Mould welcome an ar n 1 investigation tion of the Secret Service which h would ouid not Dot cripple It but I will never neer d di divulge di di- di i noise the names of ef those men who ar are arc C fighting fig quietly and without fame or glory tor y I for the sake of their government t au and d decency I would rot in prison before I Ij I c 1 of j I it J II I II would betray t those ole who have bave been so so fait faithful ful to me I owe to them the safety I of my owa children en There here are sixty fire members of the clan of the Wolf Wel at large in the United United States today day and forty five in prison I ij Ii l expect that within a month Mr lr Bourke Bourkel I Cockran will apply for a a. a writ o of certiorari for Giuseppe Morelli That shows how powerful this band is and how rich also Since its members have been operating in this c country I know of oC sixty murders I which they have committed For months they sometimes week a era aera average e one murder r a Most lost of tb these e murders take tale place in NewYork New NewYork cw York but the bodies are usually buried I in a burial ground known only to afew a few o othe of f the the members of the band baud who ho arc hig high high h i I officers officer In a few days dars I shall know v I where this burying ground is through themen the I men I have hate in the council of the band I meet them here there and everywhere but they are arc never seen speaking to me I Some of my mj own men might unknowingly unknowing arrest them M Mo Morello 10 1 Just about two months ago ngo Joe rello was shot to death in street near Second avenue New ew York city His Ills real name is Morello Iorello and he is a ason son of Giuseppe Morello Lupos Lupo's trusted i lieutenant He was killed because members mom mem bers hers of oC the band believed he lle was giving ghin I information to the Secret Service Howlong How Howlong I Ilon lon long my men last if their real character char char- char I I acter were known Since young roun Morello who wa was only eighteen years old was killed Benny 1 Testa and another Italian whose name is not known to the police were ere murdered in I New York One higa higi in authority in the Secret Service Ser declares that all three of these men were killed by the Morello Lupo-Morello because suspected of being being be be- gang an they were Viere i I in ing informers I be-I The The success of the Mafia afia o operations rations i in n I due to the inactivity inactivity in America Amer ca has been en partly activity of tho the police pollee in pros prosecuting ting th the e mf members and partly partI to what hat is called b bj by byI y r Italians There is no single in e word I I or expression in English which is lull fully equivalent to The word implies I I that |