Show K am S T S T f true T f detective stories 3 Y X X i f TEN YEARS LATER l 1 kf K f copyright by the kyndle ato inc NE of the first acts of william J 0 ONE F flank lyal after taking charge of 0 th the e new york office of the united states secret service was vas to order the arrest of ano no italians Vili cenzo lupo and guiseppe morello ot on charges of manufacturing and counterfeit motley but the sicilians anti anticipating cipa such a move had taken care that their trails were well covered and at the trial they produced a flock of witnesses who swore to alibis which effectually prevented a conviction As Bl morello orello and his comp companion anlon passed out of the courtroom after tho the case against them had been dismissed lupo remarked in a voice loud enough tor for flynn to overhear those pigs of american detectives li avent the brains to get the evidence they need nener ncr land lanci us the man who later became the head of the secret service said nothing at the time it was three sears bears bero before ri flynn again came into contact with the two italians and again the federal forces had to be content with the losing end of the argument this time case was the famous one of the fives five dollar bills printed ted in precise imitation of the currency issued by the national iron bank of morristown N J men found that the trall trail led directly into little italy in new york right up tip to the dor of a grocery store owned by gueseppe Gul de primo but there apparently it disappeared into thin air flynn investigated the matter very carefully from tin thi tut outside luti lile sIde but the only suspicious ch instance that he could discover was that de primo was importing a much larger quantity ot of olive oil than his business appeared to warrant on ace account aunt of the duty olive oil Is usually imported in barrels aels and then canned or bottled on this S sade the empty cans being wp shipped ped from italy ready for use feeling certain that there must be ba some connection between the olive oil and d the mystery mysterious ous counterfeits flynn arst ta tapped aped several of the barrels consigned to de brimo but these were filled to the brim with oil of ibe quality mentioned in the b bills zi va of lading then merely to makl certain that he had not neglected any possible tingle of the case the secret iE service ervice man inan ripped rl p ped open one of the boxes of empty cans instantly the mystery was solved the cans cont albed roll upon roll of the morristown fives manufactured in italy in the roundup which followed this discovery lupo and morello were gathered in by the government agents and charged with passing counter counterfeit felt money it was a moral certainty that the two sicilians had had a hand in the plot in fact flynn suspected that they wei the ring leaders but none of the others would implicate ite them even evea to save themselves de primo and his associates went to the ten tent ivary lary but lupo and Bl morello orello walked out kit f uie tile courtroom still sneering at the brainless Amer american lerm detectives during the years that followed counterfeiting operations and black hand murders extortion and blackmail of all kinds kind were nvere almost traced to lipo and morello almost apparently tuey iiii y worked as far west as chicago and south to new orleans but every time the police or the government agents started to close in on them the pair slipped out through 8 borne om 0 legal looch loophole 0 le prepared in advance it was wa line years after the original lupo morello case that flynn got wind of the fact that tle the italian colony in new york was planning a big counter felting coup tm only thin thing lacking according to the information which reached government headquarters wag vias it a printer A few days later a young italian named comita who claimed to be a printing expert who had been forced to leave italy on account of elpa tion in a number of mafla mafia outrages applied to lupo for a position the re cault was pw put through a grilling cross examination but flynn had bad seen to it that he waa wa supplied with the proper answers to all the questions and it long before the secret service had an all operative planted in the very heart of the counterfeit plot comoto reported that the gang was operating from froin a small farm near highland N Y and that thousands ot of dollars in spurious currency was ready to be rel cared but lupo lie added la Is ing to take a trip to italy and wont be buck back until the spring hiwing very well replied flynn we can wait just lay low until lit h returns theu well nail the whole hole bunch it was early in the following year tei years after the first arrest and re leaie lea ie of the lupo morello that the hit secret service sprung its trap and rounded up 10 italians during the trial which followed physicians and other witness ps swore to alibis which had been previously prepared rut but the lit aided by comitos firsthand first hand evidence and testimony of the men icho aho had been trailing the italians proved very every point to lu its case though it took tha evidence ot of people to do it As a result lupo and morello went to the federal prison in atlanta for 25 years and flynn was well satisfied with the per cent interest upon his bin bri original ginal investment of ten years worx work |