The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-17
The MURDER BARREL TRACED
SOLDTOT THE OWNEROFTHE SHOP
WHERE THE COINERS MET.
Mana Murder Of . Suspected Informer
Is the Theory OF the Crime-Prisoner
Morelio said TO He . Mana Head
Man-Pour More Italians Arrested.

Is the IneOry OF the Cr1me-Pr1sOnef
MoreIIo said 70 He q Mana Head
Man-Rour More Italians Arrested.
The police have succeeded in tracing
the sugar barrel in which was found on
Tuesday morning the body OF the man
supposed to have been killed by his COM
panions in an Italian gang Of counter
letters.
Inspector McClusky announced last
night that the barrel was sold on Sept
% last to Pietro lnzerillo, the confectioncr,
OF 22e Elizabeth street, who was one Of the
men arrested on Wednesday night by
Central Office men assisted by agents OF
the Secret Service working under Chief
Flynn.
From the marks on the barrel. w. T.
and &C. 22S, 1t was learned that the barrel
was sold to Inzerillo by Wallace Thorn
son, Wholesale grocers OF SOS Washington
street. This fact, combined with the other
evidence in the possession OF the police,
has satisfied them that the murder was
committed in Inzerillo's place on Monday
night or early on Tuesday morning.
At the request Of the police Wallace
Thomson examined the barrel and then
made a thorough examination OF their
books in an effort to trace 1t. They found
that they bought fifteen barrels OF sugar
on Sept II last, from the New York Sugar
Refining Company at Long Island City,
through its agents. B. H. Howell. Son Co.
Of 100 Wall street.
The books show that one Of these bar
rels, which contained 354 pounds OF sugar,
was sold to Inzerillo. who Is a regular GUS
toner Of the house.
aI., in, Npn
nection with the case yesterday, making
thirteen prisoners altogether. Three were
arrested yesterday morning, Vito Laduca.
proprietor of the butcher shop at 10 Stanton
street where the dead man was seen with
some OF the prisoners just few hours
before his death and Giuseppe Lalania Of 3os
Mott street and Nikola Testro. IS years old.
who lives in the Stanton street shop with
Laduca.
The thirteenth prisoner was brought to
! HEADQUARTERS about midnight last night by
Detectives McMulen and Mulcaire. The
prisoner said he was Giuseppe Morett, 20
wears old, of as East Eleventh street.
No one on duty at Headquarters knew
more than that he Is supposed to be one OF
| the gang.
! day, IL is expected. Whether this person
! Ia a man or a woman, the police will not
say, but they declared yesterday that this
| arrest will be by far the most important.
u The twelve prisoners arrested on
were all arraigned in the Jefferson
! Market police court yesterday morn
! ing and remanded to Police Headquarters
| by Magistrate Barlow for further examina-
'0 xh ls the identity Of the dead ma
| and his rlace Of residence before he ca me
here are stiIl unknown TO the authorities.
the Secret Service men are r =. that
rected Of being an informer.
Some months ago the Secret Service men
discovered that the gang was looking for
an infomer. Att one ] time they beard
that search was being made. for the in
! former In every city in the union, through
the branches OF the Malta society to which
J the men now under arrest belong. and
recently they heard that the local crowd
! suspected there was an infor1ner among
1 their own members.
! IL is now believed by the Secret Service
/ men that the man murdered on Monday
night was the informer, that he was located
In some other city, perhaps New orleans.
although the reason for naming that city
has not been made plain and that he was
lured TO New York and murdered according
to carefully laid plan.
Chief Flynn's men discovered on Monday
afternoon last, hours before the murder,
that something unusual was going on
| among the counterfeiters. The men were
unusually active and instead Of gathering
in the Elizabeth street store, their usual
hang-out kept going from place to place.
holding conferences and then separating
IL was noticed, too. by the Secret Service
! men that the man now dead, whom they had
, seen but once or twice, was at no time
allowed to be alone, save for the little
| while that he stood in front OF the Stanton
street butcher shop
' On Monday night the agents reported
to Chief Flynn that there was something
queer going on. They realized what IL
was when they heard Of the murder in the
The Elizabeth street store where the
murder is supposed to have taken place
Is a tiny establishment, and the Secret
Service men say that the gang has been
in the habit OF meeting in the cellar.
II is in this cellar. they say, that
the man was killed.
Inspector McClusky and Chief Flynn
agree that after the murder the wagon
that drove up to the Stanton street store
on Monday night while agents were watch
ing the gang was used to get rid OF the
body. A search. Of the city is now being
Inspector McClusky said yesterday that
beyond any doubt the actual murderers
Of the dead man are among the fourteen
prisoners he has made. He has the names
from the Stanton street butcher shop with
the dead man on Monday night, but would
not identify them for reporters yesterday.
II is believed, however, that Morello was
one Of these men:
Chief Flynn Of the. local branch Of the
Secret Service received congratulations
over the telephone from Chief Wilkie in
Washington. In speaking Of the case he
II have no clue TO the identity Of the dead
man. Once to-day we thought We might
have him identified. but that failed and
we are az far away as ever now. i am
satisfied that this mans connection with
the Malta was not with the gang In this
city that killed him, but with some branch
of the same society in some other city.
Il have had the most careful Ber tillon
measurements Of the body taken and have
sent them out to the branches OF the United
: states Secret Service In all cities In this
country. think that this will result In his
Identification before long,
This particular gang belong to the Malta
OF Palermo province. In every city In the
country they are organized, and the prisoner
Morello IL the head OF the Palermo Mana
in America. He is a man OF great infiu-
ence."
Two barrels OF letters and circulars found