The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-11
EUROPEAN CRIMINALS.
Hundreds Landed in New York Yearly
From Europe.

America may be the lana OF the Tree
and the home of the brave, but there
is no getting away from the fact that IL
is also an asylum for the cast-on pau
pers and criminals of the world, says
the New York Herald. Our immigration
laws are, Of course, designed TO over
come an evil which is fortunately less
in evidence than formerly, but recent
developments have proven that there
are agencies at work in foreign coun-
tries which menace our present system.
Criminals from foreign shores stlll
continue to our into our country
criminals, many of them, or the worst
type. And they are actually sent TO the
United States from their own countries
with the message, Good riddance 10
bad rubbish MANY well authentlcat-
ed instances are known where money
for the passage has been provided, TO-
gether with a sufficient balance TO en-
able the undesirable ones 10 enter our
ports and not be classed as paupers.
The charge has even been made That
some of the European countries are al
dicted to this method of getting rid OF
their criminals and that the practice OF
deporting them to America is carried on
with the sanction and approval OF the
various governments. This is a grave
charge, and one most difficult to sub
stantiate. 1t is probably not Wholly
true. The government officials DO not
! UlItCliy ueDcIl llitiI u iiiho
paupers, but the custom is carried on
by various societies designed for the inn
provement of the human race.
The subject is particularly apropos
Just at this time. owing to certain de-
velopments which have arisen out or
the recent murder of an Italian wo-
man named Josephine Inselma. Five
Italian men were arrested, either as
suspects or as witnesses, and an IN
y%estigation conducted by Captain Nc
ClusKy of the detective bureau deVel-
oped the fact thai all had been noted
criminals in Italy and had probably
been depOrted.
The names of these men are Giosue
GaIIucci, Nincenzo Gallucci, Francesca
Gallucci. P~asquale Adamo and Raffaelo
de Nicolo romano. They all have re-
arkab records. Captain McClusky
communicated with the project OF po-
lice at Naples. who furnished the de-
sired Information.
Giosue Gallucci had been convicted
nine times of theft and blackmail, and
was sent from Italy July "a, 1896. Vim
cenzo Gallucci had spent two terms In
Drison. had been condemned 10 times
for assault. attempted murder and other
crimes and had been sent from Italy
April 16, 1897. Francesca Galluccl, 10
keep up the reputation of so iHustrlous
a family, had been condemned six times
] ~ ' llbhS "a
had spent five years in Italian prisons
and had been nine time convicted. Ro-
mano, previous to coming from his ma
tive country in May, 1894. had been con-
victed no less than 81 times.
And these commented Captain Nc
Clusky, ARE specimens of the people
they send us from foreign countries
DR.. II. L. Allison, superintendent OF
the asylum for the criminal insane at
Matteawan, who has delved deeply into
this very question, has called the at
tention of the state commission on lu-
macy to the case of the Italians. In MS
ofhclaI capacity at Matteawan, DR.. AL
lison has had exceptional opportunities
to study the aliens who have come un-
d. der his care. -.
: In his communication he says: II
( any one doubts the results of the good
= work of the state commission on lunacy
in deporting the dependent alien in
2 sane, a few such reports as the one l
enclose ought to convince him OF the
utility of such efforts. In the pros
pectus of a work on French prisons re-
Gently published | notice that 'deporta-
/ ton was mentioned as an effective
method of after care for criminals
\ There are two cases remaining here,
\ one from Germany. the other from Eng
{ land.
e There is a great dread on the part OF
y families tn the return of many of these
. aliens. Their relatives are evidently
Il happier and more prosperous with theli
: black sheep safe i'm the fold of an Amer
e lean asylum than they are at nome
disturbing the community and tht
household. If one inquiry such as tht
above relating to a single crime deNeI
ops such a nest of cases. the question
arises as to what a more systematic anC
extended investigation of criminal case
q would discover"
= | next visited Or. Rossi. who Is th'
immigration representative of the ltal
~ ian government in New York. lie wai
very much exercised to think that sucl
: suspicious should be entertained agains
!, his native country. and explained t.
j me at great length that such a state o
affairs could not exist. He said tina
, every immigrant must be provided wit
a passport and that in view of an un
derstanding between the Italian an
United states governments no passport
l. were issued To any convicts or an
V. persons who had ever been imprisoned
II He could not make IL clear to me
70 however, why a man could not secur
he a passport for himself, provided he ha'
TO never been In prison. and allow a les
a fortunate friend to use II. DIR. Ross
also said that the bad Italians VIII
came here usually crossed the frontls
and shipped from ports outside of ITALY
where the regulations were not 5
n strict.
70 As fer the Italian government deport
IA ing prisoners and s~anctionfng such
thing. that. in his estimation, was TO
preposterous to think Of.
" In the district attorneys office | me
he DIR. Allison, who was there in the IN
pr terest Of a criminal case In which
d former inmate Of the asylum for IN
criminal insane was implicated. ! spok
to him about his communication To III
ID state commission I'm lunacy. and he sal
v. he had no idea OF accusing the foreig
governments OF completely in deportin
=. criminals and p
r. DIR. Allison cited several cases whic
T. had come under his direct Observable
at Matteawsn. Several of them Wei
p members of the criminal FRATERNITY