The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, January 01, 1914, Image 3
WORK SUCH GAME
NEW YORKERS PULL OFF WIRE
TAPPING TRICK
i ?
ENDS UP WITH HIS CASH
Wealthy West Indian Visiting in Xow
York Meets Stranger?They Be.
como "Friends" and (Jet Ready to
Win a Fortune, hut It Doesn't
Work Out.
Tho New York Sun of Tuesday
publishes the following Btory of a
"wire-tapping" swindle, played In the
same old way on the confiding
stranger in New York:
lllght in tho midst of District Attorney
Whitman's campaign against
wireless wiretappers and their police
confederates and while Deputy Police
Commissioner Doughorty's assertions
that ho would tako drastic action
against such gentry wero still roHourullng,
tlio professional gentlemen
who tip credulous persons from outlying
parts to good things in horse
races put one over on a visitor from
tho West Indies, who contributed $2,G00
In cash to the ancient enterprise.
This was on December 2 and Inspector
Paurot heard of it two days
later when L. C. Wharton, a West
Indian chemist, who was stopping in'
New York on his way home from
England, camo into police headquarters
and told the story. Wharton arrived
in New York on November 3 0
and went to tho Hotel Albert in University
place. That sanio day, Sunday,
he went for a walk. On Fifth
avenuo he met a stranger who borrowed
a match and introduced himself
as Earl 13. Linton, a mechanical
engineer from Montreal.
Tho new made friends saw the
sights tho rest of that day and tho
next and the next. 13y then they
wero Intimates. On Wednesday following
they took a walk and met, at
17th street and Fourth avenue, one
P. Burke, a friend of Linton, from
Charleston, S. C., and, according to
tho Canadian, a "bear on doping the
ponies". Burke was feeling pretty
prosperous, having just won $20.On
on the Charleston races and invited
tho others to go and see how ho did
it.
i ni'y went to a pooiroom in a rurnished
room house in East 24 th
street, just off Fifth avenue, and
started in to break tho bookies.
Wharton plunged to the extent of $5
and won $5 0. A second dasli with
$10 brought him $20 and a third mad
venture of $25 netted another $50.
Tho West Indian thought he'd 1 iko to
go on forever.
A little later Burke whispered that
ho had a sure thing, a hummer, and
ho was going to it strong. Linton
and Wharton could do as they liked.
They stepped on his heels in their
eagerness to place the money. Burke
put up $7,500 and Linton $8,800.
Wharton produced $200 in bills and
made out a check for $5,000. Nothing
doing on the check they told him,
so ho hurried downtown to his bank
and caino back with $2,500 in real
money.
Burke took the pot and gave it to
Linton, with instructions to bet it all
on a certain horse for place. Wharton
and tho plunger waited with
bated breath. Linton came back presently.
lie thought ho had been told
to bet on the nag to win and the nag
had lost and he was out $8,800, not
to mention his friends, and it certainly
was rought going.
"You thick-headed, thieving, low
down ignorant squlne," shouted
Burke. "I told you to bet on the
1 i ??
iioiHu ior piace.
"Don't talk to mo that way, you
dog," shouted Linton. "I won't take
it from you or any man."
They clinched and went down in a
cloud of dust. Wharton hopped
around on the outside and begged
them not to forget they wero gentlemen.
Finally Linton remembered,
and getting up went away, with the
peacemaker. Tho Canadian was very
soro on Burke and said he would
make good Wharton's losses, giving
him a note for tho $2,500 and then
disappearing with a promise to return
and cash it the next day. Tho
West Indian waited two days, then
began to read the papers and hustled
to headquarters.
Lieut. Flannelly and somo men
from tho Fast 22nd street station
have been working on the job since.
Monday night they arrested four
men, though they won't say where
they got tho prisoners, except that it was
near the alleged poolroom. There
they found a suitcase with the usual
wireless wire wiretappers' outfit of
Morse keys and newspapers done up
like bundles of money. Tho prisoners
are:
John IT. Brady, 32, bartender in
tho Leland Hotel, Manitoba. Tho
police say he is known to thom as
William McSherry and Franklin Hudson,
that his picture is in various
rogues' galleries and that ho has
served several terms in prison for
green goods operations. lie is supposed
to have taken the part of
Burke.
Charles Carbell, 43, of 147 West
16th street, who the police say was
in Sing Sing for three years and who
used to work with Larry SummerHold.
He had $1,870 in cash In his
COTTON GINNING REPORT
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GOVERNMENT ISSUES SEVENTH
REPORT OP SEASON.
Tills Season's Ginuings Aro Pino,
Hundred Thousand Ahead of Tliis
Time Last Year.
Tho seventh cotton ginning report
of tho census bureau for tho season,
Issued at 10 o'clock Saturday morning,
announced that 12,923,606 bales
of cotton, counting round as half
hales, of tho growth of 1913, had
been ginned prior to December 13,
to which datq during tho past esven
years tho ginning averaged 89.5 per
cent, of tho entire crop. East year
to December 13 there had been ginned
12,439,036 bales, or 92.2 per
cent, of tho entire crop; in 1911 to
that date 13,770,727 bales, or 88.5
per cent.; in 190 8 to that dato 11,904,269
bales, or 91 per cent., and in
1 906 to that dato 11,112,789 bales,
or 85.6 per cent.
Including in tho glnnlngs wero 91,
6 83 round bales, compared with 75,7
72 round bales last year, 92,7 00 In
1 91 1, 106,4 8 6 In 1910 and 14 0,024 In
1 909.
The number of sea Island cotton
bales included wero 69,312, compared
with 60,4 4 5 bales last year, 98,035
bales In 1911, 85,177 bales in 1909
and 80,316 bales In 1 908.
Ginnings prior to December 13 by
states, with comparisons for last year
and other years and the percentage
of tho entire crop ginned prior to
that date in those years follow:
Alabama.
Ginnings. P.C.
1 91 3 1,4 4 4,603 ....
1 91 2 2,234,755 93.0
1911 1,561,136 92.1
1 908 1,265,953 95.0
Arkansas.
1 91 3 884,102 ....
1 91 2 703,329 91.2
1 91 1 746,802 82.2
1 908 847,312 S5.1
Florida.
1 913 63,032 ....
1 91 2 52,895 S9.0
1 91 1 81,952 86.7
1 908 64.131 90.8
Georgia.
1 013 2,213,420 ....
1 01 2 1,075,670 92.4
1 011 2,517,857 00.1
1008 1,868,963 94.5
Ixmisiniia.
1 01 3 301,266 ....
1 01 2 3 61,123 9 0.4
1 91 1 340,304 89.4
1908 435,003 93.4
Mississippi.
1 01 3 1,084,584 ....
1 01 2 883,4 58 88.0
1 01 1 90 0,00 1 85.2
1 008 1,4 41,94 7 8 9.0
North Carolina.
1 913 706,252 ....
1 912 902,329 89.8
1 911 013,94 4 81.1
1 908 015,730 90.1
Oklahoma.
1 9 13 79 1,023 ....
1 91 2 902,329 89.9
1 911 802,838 84.9
1 908 514,535 93.1
South Carolina.
1 91 3 1,276,402 ....
1012 1,128,850 92.2
1 91 1 . . . . . 1,423,383 84.1
1908 1,134,183 93.3
Tennessee.
1 013 340,546 ....
1 91 2 230,239 80.1
1 911 300,510 83.8
1903 302,627 90.6
Texas.
1 013 3,627,4 1 0
1 912 4,368,91 5 9 1.0
1 91 1 3,862,1 43 9 1.0
1 908 3,368,874 92.9
tOher States.
1 013 99,760 ....
1 91 2 77,811 80.4
1 01 1 103,257 74.3
1 908 63,956 87.4 ,
The ginnings of sea island cotton,
prior to December 13, by states, follow
:
Florida. Georgia. R.C.
1 013 . . . .24,1 26 38,806 6,380
1 01 2 . . . .10,505 35,41 8 5,522
1 01 1 . . . .35,585 58,008 4,442
1000 . . . .26,807 37,052 10,7 13
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Burned to Death.
Mrs. James Coyle, 3 5 years old,
fell into a fireplace at her home near
Cowpens Monday morning and was
burned to death. There was nobody
else in the room at the time. It is
supposed she failed.
pockets.
James T. Burton, of 112 West
$
1 25th street, 60 years old, and known
to tho police as John J. Fitzgerald.
ITe also has been In prison there and
other places, the police say. Ho is
supposed to have been Mr. Sullivan,
tho bookmaker in tho plot.
TTenrv Nadison, 55 years old, of 4 0
Grove street, Jersey City, known also
as Horace Norton. The police say he
served time in Allentown, Pa., for
disposing of green goods. He was a
booster of tho poolroom, making fake
bets.
Tho four are held as suspicious
characters until Wharton, who has
left the city, but who Inspector Faurot
says will bo produced in good
time, can have a look at them. Tho
$2,500 is still among the missing.
9
BACK AT OLD GAME:
PARDONED YEGG ROBS SAFE AT
FAIR FOREST, S. C.
GETS BACK IN PRISON
?
William McKinley, a Noted KnfoOrucker
and Hobber, Who Was One
of tlie One Hundred and Five Convicts
Pardoned by Governor lUease,
Hack in tho Toils.
"John Kinney," a prisoner In the
Spartanburg County jail, serving
thirty days for vagrancy is nono other,
according to tho police, than William
McKinley, who was one of tho
one hundred and five convicts liberated
by Governor Cole Ij. Bleaso last
month in honor of Thanksgiving.
Moreover, the polico say they have
evidence that McKinley attempted to
blow a safe within threo weeks after
ho was freed from tho penitentiary,
and will bring him up to trial for tho
alleged crime as soon as ho completes
his vagrancy sentence.
Tho man was found camping In tho
woods near Spartanburg Junction by
Robert K. Millor, ?a special agent of
tho Southern railway. Ho had a sack
of coal, which ho admitted having
taken from tho railway's coal yards,
and ho was arrested and convicted
before Magistrate Robert J. Gantt.
On being taken to tho county jail
Kinney or McKinley, was hailed as
an old acquaintance by another prisoner,
Elmore Wright, who said the
now arrival was in tho Penitentiary
at the same time that ho (Wright)
was serving a life sentenco there for
murder. Wright was paroled by Governor
Please, but after ho was liberated
shot another man, and he, too
is back in prison again.
Two days before McKinley, alias
Kinney, was arrested an attempt was
made to blow open a safe in tho genoral
store of Rcnard Krey, at Fair
Forest, S. C., about eight miles from
Spartanburg. A charge of nitro-glycerino
was exploded but the safe resisted
the assault. Tho explosion was
hoard by a negro in the neighborhood
but the robber was not seen.
The next morning a button, with a
littlo tuft of cloth attached, was
found under tho window of Frey's
store. It is believed to have been
torn from tho robber's clothing as
ho entered the building and was preserved
as of possible value as evidence.
When Kinney was identified by
Wright as McKinley, tho safe robber,
ofllcers examined McKinley's clothing.
Tho button was found under tho
window at Frey's store after the roblior
V Wfl a frtlltwl In 1 I ...Jit.
- J ,, ftVf VKtVt IV/ \f\j I' n il 1,11,(11 ? I I, I 1
those on tho co.it worn by McKinley
when arrested, which was a piece of
the suit said to have .been allotted to
him after his release from the penitentiary.
Tho tuft of cloth attached
to tho button was identical in color
adn texturo with tho material of
which the coat was made. A button
was missing. After his imprisonment
McKinney gavo to a fellow prisoner
a new undershirt which lie had worn.
/This was of tho same make and material
as those stolon from Frey's
storo.
William J. Becknell, constable for
Magistrate Gantt, mado a further investigation,
going to tho camp fire
where McKinney was arrested. There
he found a bag containing several undershirts
and a coat of tho same
make and color as tlioso stolen from
Frey's store. Also in tho bag was a
small empty vial, smelling strongly
of oil of cloves, and a syringe. Tho
ofllcials think tho vial may liavo contained
nitroglycerine and tho drug
parhaps was used to destroy tho smell
of tho explosivo; also tho syringe
may bo the part of tho safe-blowing
paraphernalia of the yeggman.
PostofTice inspectors have been investigating
in tho belief that McKinlov
mav hnvn hnrl nnnnninii/i/>o
W ^ ^ ..Vtv. n\ V/V/IU J/IIVATD (Villi
that tho gang may havo boon responsible
for other robberies in this section.
Two men in tho Spartanburg
County Jail, charged with robbing
tho safe in tho postofheo at Saluda,
N. C., aro not believed, however, to
havo had any connection with MoKin
ley. They claim to bo followers of
tho race track, who wero "heattnc"
thoir way to Charleston.
McKinley, who at first was vory
volublo In protesting against his arrest
as a vagrant and made an able
plea to Maglfctrato Gantt for his discharge,
has since become as silent as
a clam. The officers say he angrily
broke his silence, however, when
they informed him that Post Office
Inspector H. T. Gregory, the terror
of "yeggmen'*, was coming to look
him over. The prisoner cursed and
exclaimed that ho did not want to see
Gregory.
William McKinley, alias "Dayton
Scotty", alias John Kerry, was ono of
the leaders of the notorious NolanMcKlnley
gang of yeggmen who operated
in this Stato In 1902-'03. He
was convicted along with Edward
Duggan, alias "Los Angeles Star", in
the court of general sessions at
Aiken, Juno 1 1, 1907, and sentenced
to ten years and ono day In the State
penitentiary on tho charge of having
blown open tho safe In the store of
J. T. Shuler nt Montmorencl, Aiken 1
county, Decembor 16, 1902. William
THREATENS TO EXECUTE
?
VII.I,A SAYS UK WILL < OI UT.MAltTI
\L I/OOTKKS.
Declares ltight to (1onllscAto Hewts
With Constitutionalists Alone?
Shoots Six as a Warning.
"Any ono who hereafter loots or
molests property of foreigners or
Mexicans will bo executed. The right
to confiscate property will rest only
with tho Constitutionalist government."
Gen. Francisco Villa issued this order
Sunday as showing his intention
to maintain strict military discipline.
As an cxainplo he executed on tho
plaza a hand of robols who had been
found guilty by courtmartial of sacking
tho homo of a wealthy Mexican.
While tho six rebels wero marched
before tho firing squad, tho stolen
goods wero returned to tho owner.
AH stores confiscated from tho expelled
Spaniards Sunday wero closed
and sealed. Orders wero given that
no more goods are to ho taken from
them. This action was believed to
have resulted from tho protest of the
ITnU/x.l J X ? 1- - * -
? iiiuxi oi.uus uguuiui me Boizuro or
Spanish property. Already great
quantities of tho goods, valued at several
million dollars, had been utilized
by tho rebels. Tho remainder of
tho property is to bo held pending an
Investigation as to whether the owners
aided tho Uuorta government.
Gen. Villa said his forces wero boing
strengthened by desertions from
tho Federal troops. He proclaimed
amnesty to Federal soldiers, who
would surrender and give up their
arms. Many Federal troops are reported
to have joined tho rebels.
Three hundred thousand rounds of
ritlo ammunition and r>00,000 rounds
of artillery ammunition were recovered
east of Chihuahua, where they
wero hidden by Gen. Mercado's evacuating
Federals.
Telegraphic and raijroad communication
has been extended as far west
as Minaca and as far south as llermejillo.
If there is no Federal interference,
Gen. Villa expects soon to
have the states of Chihuahua, Sonora
and Sinaloa as freely open as in times
of peace. Raoul Madero, brother of
tho late president, conferred with
Gen. Villa regarding the formation of
civil government. Mr. Madero is to
ho an adviser to Villa.1
SAVKS HIS LIFE.
Pennsylvania Minister's Iliblo Stops
Rullot Fired ?t Him.
What is believed to have been an
attempt to assassinate the Rev. R. E.
McClure, president of tho Indiana
County Anti-Saloon League, residing
at Rlairsville, Pa., failed late Saturday
night when a bullet penetrated a
Bible which ho carried under his
arm and made a slight abrasion upon
Dr. McCure's side. I)r. McClure had
mado a sick call and was returning
home when fired on.
As tho minister reached tho street
leading to his home ho saw two men.
As ho approached them a whistle
sounded and one of tho men fired a
rovolver at him. Tho minister picked
up a stone and hurled it at tho
men, running toward them. As the
assailants recreated tho man with tho
rovolver fell. Roforo Dr. McClure
could reach him tho man had regained
his feet and fired a second time,
tho bullet tearing through tho minister's
Bible and clothing. Roth men (
then fled.
Sentenced to Walk 7(1 Miles.
Edward Leo and John Nolan, 17-1
year-old boys of New York city, who
ran away from home, wero arrested
at Middletown, N. Y., on a charge of
illegal train riding. They wero released
on their promise to walk tho
7G Iniles back to their home.
.
Flies to Ills Death.
Pursued by 0110 hundred passengers
through seven ears of a subway
(rain in Brooklyn Sunday night, a
youth accused of being a pickpocket
leapod from tbo front platform of the
car when ho was about to bo surrounded
and was crushed to death
against a pillar of the tunnel. *
McKinley was granted a parolo on
November 2 7 by the governor.
In connection with the Aiken robbery,
McKinley was arrested in Columbia,
January G, 1902, by Officers
Thackam and Dowio of that city, at a
restaurant on Oervais street. Ho was
then tried in the federal courts for
numerous safe-blowings and robberies
of post offices in 1901 and
1 902, among which woro those in the
post offices in Central, Mayesville,
Blacksburg, Walterboro, Howesvillo,
Montmorencl and Batesburg and was
sentenced to five years in tho federal
prison at Atlanta.
After his release from the Atlanta
prison ho was taken in hand hy tho
South Carolina authorities and at
Aiken, in July, 1 907, largely on the
testimony of Post Office Inspector
Gregory, was convictod of burglary
and larceny and sentenced to the
State penitentiary for flftoon years,
fie had served six years when paroled
hy Governor Dlease. On being taken
to tho governor's office McKlnley said
with much earnestness that ho intended
to give up criminal ways and
lead an honost lifo.
THEY COME ACROSS
?
TELLPHONEAND TELEGRAPH COMPANIES
GIVE IN
WILL DISSOLVE TRUST
Attorney-General Mclteynolils Stops
Litigation When Itig Corporation
Agrees to Dispose of Its Holdings
in Western Union?A Complete
Victory for the Government.
Attorney-General Mclteynolds Friday
night mad? public details of an
agreement for reorganization of the
American Telephone and Telegraph
Company?the "Telegraph Trust"?
which will prevent the litigation to
dissolve that corporation under the
Anti-Trust Act, and under which
competitive conditions will he restored
In the telephone service of the entire
country and the combine will dispose
of its holdings In the Western
Union Telegraph Company.
Tho reorganization plan originated
with the company, although It followed
many reports that a suit against it
might he filed. It was Friday night
regarded by department of justice officials
as tho most striking indication
offered in a decade that "big business"
has come to the conclusion that
It is better to conform to the Sherman
law than fight It.
The plan mot not only the approval
of tho Attorney General and liih chief
"trust buster," G. C. Todd, and officials
of tho subsidiaries of the combine,
hut was heartily approved by
President Wilson. In a letter to Mr.
Mclteynolds tho President expressed
his admiration for the attitude of the
telephone company and his conviction
that such conduct on tho part of business
men meant a building up of business
on sound and permanent lines.
Coming on tho heels of tho annoucement
that Postmaster General
Burleson is seriously interested in
Government ownership of telephone
lines, the action of the department of
justice took on an added significance
and somo officials went so far as to
express tho opinion that it indicated
that legislation to acquire the country's
telephone business would not be
pressed lfy tho Administration at the
present session.
In brief tho agreement provides
that:
The American Telephone nnd Telegraph
company will dispose promptly
of its holdings in tho Western Union
Telegraph Company so that each concern
shall ho under distinct management
and so that all shall bo entirely
independent.
The company hereafter will not acquire
control of other telephone companies,
and whero control of tele
phono companies has been acquired,
but no actual physical union has been
effected, the American Telephone and
Telegraph Company \yill submit the
course it is to pursuo to the interstate
commerce commission and to
the department of justico.
The company promptly will make
arrangements by which all oth? r telephone
companies in the United Staes
shall have access to its toll lines.
Department officials declared that
the plan gave the Government everything
and more that it could have
hoped to obtain in Court, Officials
were particularly pleased with the
last part of the agreement, by which
the Hell company gives long distance
service to subscribers of other companies.
The agreement will not affect the
suit entered several months ago to
dissolvo the connection of tho Hell
Company with the Pacific Telephone
and Telegraph Company, tho West
coast branch.
President Wilson's letter, written
to tho Attorney General Friday was
ono of tho most interesting documents
made public in connection with
tho settlement. It reads:
"My Dear Mr. Attorney General:
Thank you for letting mo see the letter
from tho American Telephone and
Telegraph Company. It is very gratiI
fylng that tho company should thus
volunteer to adjust its business to the
conditions of competition.
'I gain the impression moro and
more from week to week that tho bfis-|
liiuMH men or uie country aro sincerely
desirious of conforming with the
law, and it is very gratifying, indeed,
to have occasion, as in this instance,
to deal with them in complete frankness
and to bo able to show them that
all wo desire is an opportunity to cooperate
with them. So long as we
are dealt with in this spirit wo can
help to build up tho business of the
country upon sound and permanent
lines.
"Cordially and sincerelv vnnra
"Woodrow Wilson."
Mr. McReynolds, in accepting the
American Telephono and Telegraph's
offer, wrote to N. C. Kingsbury, vice
president of tho company, as follows:
"Permit mo to accept with appreciation
your letter of December 9,
outlining the course of action which
I
tho telephono companies composing
tho Bell system obligato themselves
to follow in tho future,
j "Your frank negotations in rei
opoct of these matters compel tho belief
that what you propose will be
carried out in good faith; and it
seems to mo clear that such action on
you part will establish conditions
HE SEEKS REVENGE
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FATAL AVKNCiKH STRIKKS
DM ATI I MANY TIM MS.
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For the laixt Ton \ curs the "Man
With tho (Yooktwl Smile" Him
11 uiited Ills Victim*.
Tho fact that Joseph Farlno was
found dead In tho hallway of a vacant
building In Brooklyn recently docs
not carry with It a groat deal of Importance.
But behind tho finding of
tho bullet-riddled body of tho Italian
is the story of an avenger that has
not boon equaled in many years. It Is
tho story of a man, who, having
sworn a torrlblo oath, has about fulfilled
It. His hands arc dripping with
blood, but he has kept his word.
Tho death of Farino loaves allvo
only one of tho dozen men arrested
in 1903 for the death of Francisco
Madenlo, a crime famous tho country
over at that time as tho "barrel murder."
It was believed at that time
that Madenio was a member of a notorious
gang of Italian counterfeiters,
| operating in and about New York city
land that ho was slain by his comrades
who feared ho would betray them to
tho police.
Tho twelve men wore hold nearly a
year while detectives worked on tho
case. They were released for want
of evidence. Since then 1 I have been
murdered in various parts of tho
world one in Chicago, one In Palermo.
Italy, four in Brooklyn, one In
Now York city, and several in Pennsylvania
towns. But one remains,
"Lupo, tho Wolf," now serving a
long term in the Federal prison at
Miania ronowing a conviction for
counterfeiting. But ho will bo releas< (1
some < 1:iy. and tho mysterious
avenger for it is practically <'ortaln
that it is just ono man is at liberty
and is waiting to fulfill his oath.
(luiseppe Do Primo is believed to
bo tho mysterious avenger. Ho is bettor
known to tho Italians of Now
York and Brooklyn as the 'man with
tho crooked smile." Not only is ho
at. liberty but tho Brooklyn authorities
have no idea where he is, and If
they did would hesitate to arrest him,
as they have no direct evidence to
connect him with any of th previous
crimes.
It. was ten years ago last April
that the body of Francisco Madenlo
was found stuffed in a barrel in a
Now York street. It had been literally
cut to pieces and the mystery furnished
one of tho principal news stories
of the day. The body was identified
finally by a erielflx the young
man wore about his neck, and it was
also established as a moral cortalnty
that he was a member of a band of
desperadoes whose chief occupation
had been making and passing counterfeit
bills. The twelve arrests fol-.
lowed, but proof of the crlmo was
hard to establish, and, .after being
held eleven months, the men wero released.
Do Prime, the "man with tho
crooked smile," was in King King at
the time, serving a sentence for counterfeiting,
for. he, too had been connected
with the band. Madenio was
his cousin and his closest friend, and
his rape at he news of the killing was
only exceeded hv that 1 1 months later
when lie learned that the suspected
men had been released. Then and
there he swore a horrible yet, to Italians,
sacred oath to fully avenge his
I kinsman's death or die in the attempt.
lie was released in the fall of 190-t
and secret service men met him at
the door and placed him on hoard a
ship bound for Italy with a warning
to keep away from the United States
in the fututre. Hut Brooklyn Italians
declare that the "man with tho crooked
smile" was back in less than a
year after he had been deported.
Since then his sole business has been
the carrying out of his vendetta. One
more death and ho will have ended
this horrible, self-imposed task.
The members of the counterfeiting
hand had heard of [)e Prlmo's oath,
and by the time he was released from
prison they had separated to the four
corners of the globe. Hut the smile on
the pale face of the undersized Italian
only became a little moro'crooked as
he set about his task of wholesale
blood-letting.
Tho first to fall was Tomasso Pettro.
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hin great size and strength. Ho was
shot to death outside his homo irt
Pottstown, Pa., in 1905. It was said
ho had heard of De Primo's oath and
had fled New York following tho
"crooked man's" release. Then camo
Vito Laduca, who was shot as ho was
departing from a thoatro in Carini,
Italy, in 1907. Next camo Miola Testa,
summoned outside of a cafe in tho
central part of Italy, and shot. Sinco
his death eiuht others have died .To
soph Farino added another to the revengeful
list which is now almost
complete.
under which there will ho full opportunity
throughout the countryfor
competion in tho transmission of Intelligence
by wire.
"May I take this occasion to say
that tho Administration earnestly dosires
to co-operato and to promote all
business conducted in harmony with
law; and that, without abating tho
insistence that the statutes must ho
obeyed, it always will welcome opportunity
to aid in bringing about whatever
adjustments are necessary for
tno re-establishment of lawful conditions
without litigation."