| Show our u i d a lf I r Hu he Dan erot Importation From g soap and andr e Mafia z a Dangerous Dandero r c r a aA n ti fort fortI A c find Ind Its ts Bastardly Methods In the United I 1111 HI i d U u ack I uv UW turn tint it M is an accepted fact vh l that UMi th the murdered man arum whose whOle len tens Iter N body bedy bed was wa faund In a ai i I cJ barrel In New NI York city was cot col a victim virUm of ot th the Mafia M a atten aUn attention tines tion to If I enne e more directed dl to 10 e that soel toelt society tr which has IMS for lor or Its III object the of ot men Inimical kt h t t to lo Its Interests or to 10 the Interests of ot lu its thA t fading rt Practically lly every r city Uy In the th lb United States State contains d f blanches of ot the Mane Mafia and many mall cities rmA o of at v TV very ry sue have Imn been terror rom om lied b d by the workings or of these detests of t blo bodies In most molt cases rase It Is true tau t that Id hll th he ha victims are usually their fellow reIJo I IJ J em countrymen and It Is II scatter matter of court II I be ricord r tortS cold that tool the records of ot the courts I 10 0 11 b show snow I that the th number of ot convictions to t obtained oo Is ts absurdly out of ot proportion j I Hare r c ent i to tJ the tho number of murders mu e committed I rs h This Is due to the tile fact that friends of or of III y rl I the he murdered men usually refuse to tell tellIn el j I In gt What wb they the know k no of ot the Ibe suspected l j lenet preferring to lake take tilt lire law into Inlo I 1 their own hands with the result that ani there ar a are two tro or snore mere murders Instead led I of otonA one Jut hut difficult of ot detection Iet as III are aree e I these crime aim they are ridiculously aim sim aimi simple i I ani pIe of rotation In 11 comparison with those ride Id committed by ls h the Mafia Matta against out i lifters Then tM the Sicilians are closely 11 hots hoW OO bound together ther by the oath of their HI so sod 1 d h cil ty the violation of which would auld In Inna na hI mean death d th thI I are rf Tho The Mafia MaUll is u It is ls known In this 11 lib e et Country does not nol live v UP to its II original origin in Bet t inal purpose It Is ls quite quilt an sn ok old organ organization mgt t err I formed In III Sicily h for fc r the purpose oper elf dt tf fighting the Italian government In a apolitical aI ape pe I tit political roll tl C OIl way Wit Th The subordinate branch m t ea areto all Intents and purposes purpose Indo is pendent though all of them c I it rn 1 I I L L Miff edge the Ille authority or the head Irete in 11 Palermo l arid and 1 the sign alga Is accepted a all III allover over ever the world warla Prom Pram a comparatively com beginning the Mails Mail 1 a speedily degenerated Into a body bod which used lid Its It power to attain Its It fOnd ends making threats when Mft fair means and eventually resorting to 10 violent mea meas measure urN urea But for tor a long lOll time actual mur mar murder murder marder der was not countenanced When how hew however ever pr the Italian government I traced most of Gf the abuses for f which Sicily Bleil had long Ion been l u Infamous to the tho work workings workings ings of the III Mafla through Its Ita controlling force In Palermo and Inaugurated A n campaign for Its extermination extermination tion Uon murder was wall to 10 the tM most meet prominent omelet In Sicily being thrown from a rapidly moving train tIn It t WM was not until this time flame that the Italian how 1101 widespread was WI the Ih Influence of ot the Mute Mans but It II was wa then found that little 1111 existed In tn nearly every corn com of the peninsula Strength was Will lent tnt to these theae Ih ladies bodies by an alliance amente with the brigands who protected prot led the Mafia Malia when wh necessary r bf by force torce of ot arms arm and who In is tarn were w protected protect by bf members member Of It the Malta serving I on oil Juries Jetties when the brigands and were up for trial The Mafia Malia In is this tula country got Kot Its itA start tart front from persona peona rr ns driven out of ot Sicily for lor cruets trl committed In such A 1 manner that there was 1 no hope of 01 escaping con convict conviction vict ten Naturally the th these e outlaws hav having tag ing III Interests In common and finding that many of or their compatriots had pre preceded ceded them to this country organised late branches of DC the tile Malta and equally naturally the seep of ot the home bear hots Y despicable and end villainous as asIt asIt asIt It was If was to meet the new conditions Stiletto of a aMa n ct Leaden Leaden Pi 0 I Ip 1 p L I r Weapons ea taken cw York or ra gang guny Sawed off which WI killed Chief Hennessy j of Jew Orleans Hinge Nf 1 y II While as I has bu been said raid Fa 1 1 ly 11 any argo city of If the United SUit 1 h I been free f from the lit lithe i he hi a worst sufferer from this Ihl foreign tO tin ten has been New Orl 4 For Fornore Fornore nore more than a generation i lr e the I rear CU lUO 1590 there had beta an arn Y K of vt nearly two murders a I year attributable to 10 th the Ibe Mafla Matta ala a and because of at the oath bound nature n ure of It th the organisation scarcely 1 1 a conviction was Will obtained In two to factions which had hall been at nt loggerheads for tot some lome time Ume finally re te sorted eo 9 CJ and aDel under undo the h clever cleverf H f II manipulation of ot Superintendent of ot Po 10 Police Police lice lie David Dald Hennessy a number of ot or ar arrests rests rull were made ma and staple ample al evidence was wu secured to 10 obtain conviction though without the Infliction of the capital penalty In gathering this evidence Henne bad had o information witch muae made u It it certain that mat the Mana would experience ex erl nce great difficulty In n committing crimes without the price practical practical deal certainty certainly of ot detection Naturally therefore was wn viciously hated by b those of at the Mafia who ho hud hall not been concerned In Riving giving away the secrets of ot the workings of ot their organization organisation and It was ass decided derided that thol he ho was too loo danger dangerous ous to in them to be bo permitted to live A Ahouse Ahouse Ahouse house wan wall hired opposite lIe to that of ot the Iho superintendent of ot police and from roan that vantage point his hll movements were closely watched Finally In October ISM U O Hennessy was murdered almost at atthe atthe atthe the door of at his residence his hla approach having been heralded by a 11 bar toy who ran ahead and gave gae the peculiar signal whistle of the Mafla Mana This boy was 48 the son Ion ot of one of ot the prime conspirators This dating daring crime ot of the Mafia Manil set the city of ot Now New Orleans ablaze and It was recognized that only heroic mess meas measures ures urea could avert n ert n a temporary reign of ot terror Mayor Shakespeare appointed a committee of at safety and It was vu large largely ly Iy through the Influence of ot this commit committee tee teo that a 11 desperate campaign ot of anal anni annihilation halation against the Sicilians Sicilian was a as pre prevented prevented vented There were many arrests and finally nineteen men were ere held for tor complicity or actual participation In the tha murder of ot On April U 13 1691 the Jury acquitted six It of or the nine nino men into then on trial and disagreed with reference to the other ether three Then all respect for tor forthe forthe the law b vanished for It was US alleged that the Jury had been tampered with through the Influence of at a private de do detective named Dominick A J call was Will Issued for tor a 11 mass meeting the next nut morning morn lair A J ue mob assembled emblin in front of ef tit the Clay Clex Thence but 16 led uy by 11 some or of me the most prominent mea of the city men who had been of the committee of at safety and vho eho ho hid bd up to 10 that time counseled the crowd proceeded to the nil pris prison nilon on and am lynched eleven of the men whose bo connection with the murder of ot Ilea Hen Hennessy fleecy nessy seemed Indisputable It Is I pesel bio bin that one or two of It the victims hid bad nothing to 10 do with lIh that particular mer r dor der but the mob was as determined to 10 do doa a 11 terrible days Ilay work ork and It dId dia It i Since that day New Orleans has been be singularly fret free from crimes whit sp e o pear like the work ark of ot the Slang Mafia ana In most of ot the murders of ot the trie lulls what Is II known as the Mafia liana run gua Is U used This deadly weapon Is I mad made by ty sawing lawill oft ot the barrel of ot an ordinary shotgun and reducing the length of ot th the stock which Is also Iso hinged t s so that thai th the whole thing be folded may up and an ear car carried ried under the coat It Is s also abo a area rt re fact tact that the Mafia Malia also alep dl card their weapons as Ita soon coon as have hae committed a II murder This TM Is Ii doubtless because tho Iho pos n of tit such an unusual gun Un would 1 rather strong Itron presumptive against Its possessor But Dut a k Selde de from fram these guns the tho Walla Matla use a tarp lArge w yg i riely of at knives many of ot them thern hind fund made The recent Mafla 1 murder In New TOrk city and tho the fact tact that on all op the person of ot each of tho the then men detained merely on Ot suspicion there was found a knit Oj ot this thin description Uon as al well wall as liS a reVolver has haa aroused amused the police polito of at the large lurt arg Cu cit elt let of ot this country sou entry and In most nott notta place a IL vigorous campaign Is to 10 b against every on one who vho violate Ibe Ia kw by carrying conceal nl y w J SEH |
