Show agun 0 ED BY 01 THE MAFIA MIA day and night an italian Is threatened I 1 HIS WIFE HAS BEEN POISONED his boy badly slashed ills property stolen and secret plots make him miserable N isow tw YORK nov 18 when antonio flaccamio was mysteriously murdered in front of the cooper union a few years ago superintendent byrnes then inspector in in charge of the detective bareau made the discovery that thata a foreign assassinating society known as the mafia had brents agents in fit this country and arid that the tile order was nourishing flourishing in several cities of t the h e united states the tile assassination of was laid at the door of the mafia M afla but the members of that order are so secre secret elv tely banded together that the tile murderer has n never ever been arrested A mark ed victim of the he t mafia has asked for protection at police headquarters from the I 1 I 1 agents of the order who arc are sworn to kill him i this man is manio far zio bondio an intelligent italian he ile has told his story to the police ce th the e story stor lie told to detective formosa n b began e an tn thirty arty years ago when he e was still L ti la a boy ov in italy t a I 1 ll 11 his is father was mi pit ital italian in R 11 nobleman bleman 0 viti in IM 1810 a murder murde r was coln committed bitted in paris whore where his parents lived his ills father fathe r was ayas a wealthy man and the lower and cr criminal mina 1 classes had a great I 1 hatred for him to a shield beld the real murderer his father fattier was arre arrested eted ed thrown into prison where he lie was kept for three years notwithstanding he lie was innocent then he was let go upon his paying A it large buia sum of money several italians who were identified with the mafia bore a grudge against the elder bondio which he says haa has been transferred to the son soil marzio came cameto to this country in 1867 and soon went into business inal making king balloons and selling flowers he ile says he lie has been hounded several years and threatened w with fill death and has gone from one place to another to escape assassination marzio formerly lived in brooklyn it was there his wife died last year she had been sick but fifteen days the mafia he be said tried to palm off one of their members aa As a d doctor oct or but he lie discovered the fraud shortly before bis his wife died an all italian priest came to the tile house and ordered every one out of the room the th a priest iest sent him out for medicine will while F ho lie was gone the tie priest induced if the ie dying woman to give hi him 1 1600 aw which ho lie said lie would send to T her brother antonion Anton lon bronio who is a soldier in italy when his hits wile died her body turned a reddish hue line but the attending physician g gave vea a certificate of death from 11 pneumonia 0 ui 0 ma she was buried at the 11 holy 0 rn gross cemetery brooklyn later he says bays the baby was taken from the grave by his enemies and arid removed to some unknown place the money which his wife gave to the priest was never sent to her tier brother gandio nays says that he has learned this from letters from friends in italy telling him of the confession made by luella cen trino an italian who was living ili in in brooklyn at the time of hi wo cheb 18 a death and arid who went to italy where lie died before he lie died he thai alia gondles Gond Gon loB dlos wife had been poisoned poi toned by avento I 1 of the mafia it in order to get her money and property in italy he gave the barile name of the priest who got abe money and confessed that it was not s sent ent to the deed lead womans comans brother lie ile also confessed con ceased that bat t the same agents w who caused tha death of mrs bondio by poison were sworn to kill her tier husband bondio went to see the italian priest who he lie said wan was connected with a cliar cli in brooklyn he ile accused him of keeping the themo bonev nev the oriest driest threatened to have him killed if he lie said anything more about the matter he ile has ties been warned a number of times since that he be would be killed if he did not riot keep quiet one year liis its 11 year year old cd son was 9 slashed across tho the face by unknown parties and arid by this means poison lionson was injected into the wound the tile lad ad recovered however bondio says his letters are intercepted and arid be he Is being hounded night and day about three months ago lie made up tit his mind to go to italy ana and get assion possession of his cifes property his ills ene enemies heard of it and they tried to get him to go in company with atti a yo young g man mail whom bondio since ehas has learn learned was a member of ahn the mafia and waa was to murder him at the firel firs opportunity bondio is trying to get t enough to get back to italy but fears te he will vill rm b murdered before he can call get away |