Show TRUE DETECTIVE STO IESI THE THE DOUBLE CRIME Copyright 1320 1920 by the Wheeler S Syndicate Syndi Syndi- cate Inc It was in the late sum summer me of 1903 that the New York police discovered the body of ot a man evidently an Italian concealed In a barrel on the east side Every mark that could possibly supply a clue to his Identification had been removed removed even even the labels had been clipped from his clothes clothes and and the manner in which his face tace had been mutilated rendered him totally unrecognizable i The matter was recorded at headquarters and a number of detectives were assigned to the case But they worked In vain No one In Little Italy would admit of ot having even heard of ot such a aman aman aman man and those who through curiosity or other Jh motives t visited the morgue failed Il to l Identify e the body 3 I But Just as t the e case was about to be ba entered upon the book of ot New Yorks York yorks a unsolved mysteries it was cleared up through a coincidence so startling that no writer of ot detective fiction would have dared make use of ot It ItOn It On the night of ot the murder William J J. Flynn nynn then chief of the Eastern division of ot the United States secret service with headquarters in New York was working on one of the tha numerous counterfeiting cases which occur so frequently In the Italian section of ot the metropolis Flynn himself had elected to trail a pair of at Italians whom he had reason teason to believe were working with or for tor the counterfeiters The trail led to an Italian grocery where from the shadow of at a 1 doorway across the street the government government government govern govern- ment detective could see Into a lighted room In the suspected house A few moments later a covered wagon drew up In front of ot the house a man got out entered en en- the grocery and made his way Into the very room that Flynn was watching The light from the lamp fell tell directly upon his face tace and the secret service op 0 op- op i I realized that this must be a new addition to the gang for tor he was certainly no one that he ie had seen before Then Ther the curtains to the window were drawn and Flynn abandoned his chase for tor the time being confident that he would nail his men any time he wanted them The next morning the murdered man was discovered nearly half halt a mile from the place where Flynn had hidden himself himself him him- self the tho night before It was several days later that the operative read the official account of the crime and noted that the body had lad been found in a sugar barrel partly filled tilled with blood stained sawdust The date of the murder coupled coupled coupled cou cou- pled with the use of at a sugar barrel re recalled recalled re- re called to the operatives operative's mind the fact tact that he had been watching an Italian grocery at or about the time that the tho foreigner had been killed Merely to satisfy himself that there was no connection connection con con- between the counterfeiters and the murdered man Flynn went to the morgue and examined the body The peculiar shape of at the forehead the manner manner manner man man- ner in which the hair splayed out above the prominent ears and the bloodstained hat which had been found in the barre barret told the story beyond the shadow of ot a a. doubt It was the stranger that Flynn had seen entering the store which he had been watching watching- Feeling certain that here was a sign which pointed toward the operations of or orthe the gang which he was after arter n Flynn nn had the body photographed from a number of ot angles while experts in physiognomy re reconstructed reconstructed reconstructed re- re constructed the features to something approaching a lifelike appearance Then armed with these post-mortem post pictures Flynn took a trip to Ossining to see If It any of tho the members of ot the Italian colony In Sing Sing could identify identity the dead manThe man The idea a proved o e to be a good o one for fora wYt ek no lf a convict whom Flynn knew knew knew-an e an n Italian serving time for another counterfeiting case case identified identified the photographs as being those of ot his law in ruena l Benedetto whom he described as being a peaceful hardworking citizen who had never been implicated In any of at the crimes of ot the Italian settlement Working backward from this clue Flynn and the other secret service operatives operatives operatives oper oper- trailed the Italians whom Flynn had seen in the grocery store on the night of ot the murder and it was not long before they had made a complete roundup of the gang As was wag to be expected in a crime of at this nature alibis were plentiful but as was also usual these were none too well supported by fact and it was a comparatively simple matter for tor the police police police po po- po- po lice to get at the bottom of ot th the case once the Identity of the victim had been established A judicious application of ot the third degree brought to light the fact tact that Benedetto had been killed because he had got wind of ot the counterfeiting plot and because he was the law in of ot the man who later identified the body a a raan nian who had incurred the undying enmity of ot his compatriots by turning states state's evidence The inflexible laws of or orthe the society to which they both belonged one one of the societies which rules Little Italy with a rule of ot Iron and a hand of or blood demanded blood demanded the sacrifice of at the next of ot kin In the event of information being given to the police But if it Flynn nynn had not happened to be watching the grocery store on the night of ot the murder the chances are that the crime would still be unsolved The leader lead lead- er of ot the murder gang was found to be Ignazio Lup Lupo one of ot the very men Flynn was after but the government allowed the charge to hang fire Ire until until until un un- un- un til the expiration of Lupos Lupo's s term for fored manslaughter Another o r Lupo brother r of i Ignazio escaped ed at the rt t time and n was rn not captured until ten years vears later although Flynn and his associates were on the lookout for tor him all that time |