Show track their victims thousands of miles to slay them new york kcf IS that gaelano costa was murdered in his butcher shop in brooklyn on wednesday night not because he had refused to accede to blackmailing demands for money but as the result of a political in society years ago by the executed by Us agents of tho black hand society in this country and to which at least seven other lives had already been sacrificed rif was the remarkable revelation made to the police yesterday according to information given by a fellow countryman and former as of the dead man costa was one of a band of a dozen or more wealthy sicilians included among whom were his two brothers who for daring to oppose a dominant political faction closely allied with the mafia were driven across the seas pursued with a relentlessness that has been hindered by neither time nor distance and systematically put to death whenever an opportunity to escape detection offered realizing their helplessness against enemies th leading members of the costa faction cama to this country and settled in various places some had been compelled to leave all their worldly goods behind them in the haste of flight and went west to begin life anew among these were costas two brothers giuseppe and luggi with the exodus ot tho threatened men however the matia apparently did not drop the matter three years later according joithe narrator the body of Giuseppe Costa was found in jackson park chicago bearing sixteen stab wounds around the waist was a blue eash placed thero evidently as a warning to other italians who knew the methods of the mafia about a year after that chico italians were mysteriously murdered at riverside ills not long after that leigl costa was at geneva ills finally a few months after this the headless body of a man was found at erie pa also alth a blue sash around the waist in the light of these events and the peculiar circumstances surrounding the murder 0 gaetano costa police captain evans of brooklyn Is convinced he fell a victim to tho same vendetta k GOVERNOR CUMMINS EMPHATIC he again refers to remarks of secretary of treasury shaw acs moines oct 13 addressing a republican club GOT cumminas last night added another chapter to the unusual controversy between himself and secretary of abo treasury shaw over the question whether gov cummins in an address delivered in chicago correctly quoted certain parts of a speech made by tho secretary before the dea commercial club Gov cummins said since I 1 made my speech in chicago and since the secretary of the treasury called upon roe for my authority lor the statement made there a doa en men who heard the speech offered mo their affidavits attesting the accuracy of the lepori made by the editor gov cummins Cum mius beech tonight was a careful argument in ta ov of immediate tariff revision and for reciprocity he declared that all talk of harmony in the republican party on the tariff issue Is an idle one one or tho other should be convinced of its error or utterly defeated tho campaign is on ho said and will go on until it reaches fruition in the platform of GEO FRED WILLIAMS AGAIN boston oct 13 george fred williams formerly state leader ot the democratic party announced that he would decline to support henry M whitney nominee 0 the party tor lieutenant governor in a statement sir williams charges mr whitney with wrongfully influencing legislation at tho state house fifteen years ago when the candidate was president of tho west end street railway of this city mr williams says be will support the other nominees ot tho party mr whitney when informed ot sir williams attitude said he would reply to the charges before the close of tho campaign SPECIAL FIELD AGENT houston tex oct 13 F N gray has been appointed special field agent in cotton investigation by secretary of Agil culture allson and has taken the oath of office his headquarters will be at houston for the present mr gray will be one of the board issuing the monthly statement of conditions he has boea editor and proprietor ot the rice industry published here |