Show AN EPIDEMICS EPIDEMIC-S J OF CRIME Mafia Runs Riotin the Coal Regions of Pennsylvania S Penn-sylvania AN ITALIAN DESPERADO Fires at One Man and Kills Another I The Assassin Accused of Killing Nine Men In His Day Poisoned His Wife and Fled the Old Country Coun-try A Poverty Gulch Col HoldUp Hold-Up Burial of the Seven Victims of the Housaard Family Other Crimes and Criminals S WILKESBARRE Pa Jan 16Peter Visalves a noted desperado and friend of Passerello and others of the Mafia gang murdered a man at Georgetown a suburb of this city He was arrested soon after Visalvas has crimes t answer an-swer for that would send him to jail for several life times After a days carousal with a number of his countrymen he was sitting in the saloon of Laffis He had George Lafs previously previous-ly had a quarrel with some of them and while the crowd was talking and drinking he was seen to go quietly out Nothing was thoughtof it until a noise was heard j I outside Charles Lagar with whom he I I Visalvas had quarreled appeared walked before to the him window discharg and j j I ing a revolver at him The bullet grazed his forehead and then pierced the head of Frank Vilage who was sitting with his back to the window He fell dead The men in the saloon ran after the murderer He turned anl dared them to come on They closed in on him He fired four shots without effect and then he was seized and placed under arrest before he could resist Visalvas has been accused of killing nine men Those who knew him in the old country say he poisoned his wife there and fled to this country He has benin ben-in this country about twelve years and is about 40 years old The fact that Passerello the head of the Mafia is in jail with his chief men does not seem to have a depressing effect upon the great majority of men of his class throughout this region There is an unusual epidemic of crime at the lower endAt At Mahony City Peter Marulanis a Hungarian and good citizen who had given his information to constables which added some evidence to the Passerello case was brutally murdered recently Tvtarulanis was attending the wedding of his brother when Martin Racklet and Andrew Rubdufski entered the house They were bent on fighting and finally Racklet took a bottle that Marulanis was holding and put i in his pocket Mar ulanis then called the men thieves and they both jumped at him knocking him down and fractured his skull He died two hours later His murderers escaped Poverty Gulch HoldUp CRIPPLE CREEK Colo Jan 16P W Campbell of Los Angeles Cal was held S up in Poverty gulch today by two men They presented a revolver and he prevented the hammer from falling by grabbing it His hand was terribly cut He was beaten into insensibility but the robbers fled without getting any of his money One was captured and identified He is Sam Bell a gambler The other is a man named Morgan who had volunteered volun-teered to pilot Campbell about the camp I is believed Campbells skull was slightly fractured but he will recover After fully recovering from the effects of the blows on his head Campbell said he could not recognize Bell as his assailant as-sailant Bell was released |