Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-02-13 | Page 6 | Italian Gangsters 'Squeal' on Man Higher Up

ITAliAN GANGSTERS SQUEAl ON MAN HIGHER UP l District Attorney Unearths Murder Plot in Poultry S Trust War S By United Press NEW NEV YORK Feb 12 Promising Prom Promising Prom Prom- ising the speedy dy arrest of the man higher up who hired Ippolito r to proc procure u c the murder of Barnett Baff in th e poultry poultry trust war District Attorney orney Swann Swami tonight co continued to rim run down information divulged by Frank Ferrara Ferrara Ferrara Fer Fer- rara and four tour other alleged gunmen now under arrest arrest Ten men participated in the murder mur der according to the story the ponce police say they obtained from Ferrara They included Greco who himself was slain last October f Greco was murdered atthe atthe at atthe the instigation of the men who hired him to kill Baff Daff because they feared he intended to squeal for immunity the police asserted c Working In Jn conjunction with the police po li lice e Swann expected to place his evidence ovi evi- dence before a grand jury Monday and have every man connected with the plot under arrest on murder Indictments indict indictments ments within a week The rats are already running to cover he said Ferrara Is the driver of the death automobile which dashed up to Baff's Baft's store last year and sped away with the slayers clinging to the running board and Baff Daf lying dead on the sidewalk sidewalk side side- walk police officials tonight They said he also told them em Greco rounded up the gang of ten gunmen in his saloon in Harlem w where ere he lc was leader of the Italian gangsters Greco distributed among the hirelings Ferrara said 1000 of which Greco retained for himself The not accounted for tor or is said to have been paid subsequently to the men who silenced si sl si- si Eald Greco with a bullet in the tile back This murder at the time was marked down by the police a as Just another of the successions of ot mysterious slayings in the Italian quarter few of which are ever solved In a few tew months five other men besides Greco had been murdered from ambush near the spot where he was killed The men under arres arrest and estimates they are said by Ferrara to have re for their part in iii the Baff murder murder mur mur- der are Joseph Antonia Antonio Antonio An An- tonio tonia Carmine Di Df Paoli Pa Pa- oil oli lookout Archiello named as the man who fired the shot that killed Baff Batt Frank Ferrara death car chauffeur A gunman said to have fired the first shot which only wounded Baff Batt is said to have re received received re received and three other others known only to Greco at th the time o of the plot 1850 1860 between them The The- The police police tonight tonight to to- night claimed to have hav the names nameS' of our missing gunmen Ferrara's alleged confession said Greco moved about the two other men menn meni ip in n the crowd on the sidewalk while a third hird kept close to him There were Ix ix Italians in the death automobile one Q of whom merely dealt out the re re- re- re V and caught them m as they were tossed ba back k into the car when Baff Bart lell to the sidewalk