The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-04-17
POLICE TRACE
SUGAR BARREL
II Was Sold TO an italian Con-
factioner Last September.
He Is NOW UNDER ARREST.
II Is Thought the Murder Was Committed
In His Store-Vlcim lured From
New Orleans.
He IS NOW UNDER ARREST.

New York. April 1.-THE police have
finally 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 companions
I'm an Italian gang OF counterfeiters.
Inspector McCluskey announced last
night that the barrel was sold on Sept
Is last to Pietro InzeriIlo, the oonfec-
TONER OF 226 Elizabeth street. who was
one OF the men arrested wednesday
night
From the marks on the barrel. W.
T." and &c. 223." II was learned that
tho barrel was sold TO Inzerillo by Wal
lace & Thompson. wholesale grocers OF
SEQ Washington street This fact. com
bined with the other evidence In the
possession OF the police. has satisfied
them that the murder was committed
in Inxerillo's place on Monday night or
early Tuesday morning. and that the
murderers themselves are among the
men arrested Wednesday night and yes
terday morning.
Three more arrests were made in con-
necuon with the case yesterday. making
HltOEetneF. Inc men ar
rested were Vito Iaduca, proprietor OF
tho butcher shop at 16 Stanton street.
where the dead man was seen with some
OF the prisoners just a few hours before
his death; Giuseppe Lalamia Of 30s Mott
street and Nikola Testro, IS years old
who lives in the Stanton street shop with
Laduca-
a 18th person win be arrested today
II Is expected Whether this person is
sl,..
say. but they declared that this arrest
Will be by far the most important.
PRISONERS ARRAIGNED.
The IL prisoners were all arraigned In
the Jefferson Market police court yes
terday morning and remanded to police
headquarters by Magistrate Barlow for
further examination. None OF the men
would talk and no effort was made TO
get than to say anything In court
Although the identity of the dead man
and his place OF residence before he
came here are stu unknown TO the au-
thorities, the secret service men are sat
isfed that he was killed because he was
suspected OF being an informer
This gang he's been under surveillance
by secret service men for some time.
Shortly before the murder OF Giuseppe
Catania, the Columbia street grocer, last
July, the government detectives know
that the oounterfeiters were convinced
that there was informer in the'- own
rankB Before the murder OF CatGnia,
the secret service men knew that the
counterfeiters were trying to locate the
informer and when they heard OF Cat
ania's death they felt pretty certain that
the gang had picked him out as their
betrayer and had killed him.
Some months ago the secret service
men discovered that the gang was look
ing for another informer. At one time
they had heard that a search was being
made for the inforner i'm every city in
the union through the branches Of the
society, to which the men now under ar
rest belong, and recently they heard
that the local crowd suspected there was
an informer among their own members.
FROM NEW ORLEANS.
1t Is now believed by the secret service
men that the man murdered on Monday
night was the informer, that he was
located I'm 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 muir
oered according TO carefully laid plan.
The Elizabeth street store. where the
murder is supposed TO have taken place
n tiny establishment, and the secret
service men say that the gang has been
In the habit OF meeting in the cellar UNI
derneath. IL is in this cellar. they say,
that the man was killed. The sugar bar
rel In which the body was packed was
kept In that cellar and several strips OF
burlap like that found with the body
were I'm the cellar.
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
watching the gang was used 20 get rid
OF the body. search OF the city Is now
being made for the wagon. Chief Flynn
said today: "1 have no clue 20 the idenrI-
~ of tho dead man. | am satisfied that
this mans connection with the Malta WIS
not with the gang I'm this city that killed
him, but with some branch Of the society
I'm some other city. This particular gang
belong TO the Malta OF Palermo province
In cveryci ~ OF the country they are or
ganized. and this man. Morello, Is the
head OF the Palermo Malta i'm America
He is a man OF great influence.