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Show LUPO GANG PUT OUT OFJXISTEKCC i NEW YORK, Dec. 1 The notorious Lupo gang of counterfeiters, whoso members were suspected of at least one murder and many black hand cr.sc6, was put out of existence, tho police believe, by the arrest today of thirteen Italians and the seizure ot a large amount of counterfeit bills. Nine of the prisoners are believed to be the rest of the gan, the leaders lead-ers of which wore arrested last win-I tcr and are now serving terms aggregating aggre-gating fifteen years in the federal prison at Atlanta for counterfeiting. The gang was headed hy Lupo (the wolf), who was sentenced to thirty years, and Guisepho Morrello, sentenced sen-tenced to twenty-five years. The "barrel murder" was laid to members of the band, which manufactured manufac-tured counterfeit bills on a farm near Highland, N. Y. Notwithstanding thj fate, of the men arrested last winter, the clrcula-' Hon of counterfeit money coLtinued, and the secret service men believed that members of the band still out oi jail were putting out false money. As the result of investigation, the house In which the counterfeit bills were stored was found and tho men sispected were arrested. |