New-York tribune., 1903-04-16
THINK THEY HAVE MURDERERS
POLICE And SECRET SERVICE MEN ARREST EIGHT
ITALIANS
Thought To Be Couneters and Mafa Members Uho Killed NGH
in BarreIa and TzcOO

II the theory of the police after the arrest
last night OF eight Italians. said to be counter
feters and members of the Malta. be true. the
man whose slashed body was found in a barrel
early on Tuesday in Eleventh-st.. near Avenue
D. still unidentified was killed in a butcher
shop In the basement of No. is Stanton-st.; sat
there while a murderous band plotted his end
and after a heavy cloth had been nailed over the
window. screening the view from the street. was
seized. his cries stified, and his body made
sheath for Malta knives he having been decoyed
there that he might be assassinated.
Even further goes the supposition of the police
1t lays to the door OF this band of what is
thought to be the most desperate and blood
thirsty criminals that have lurked in the shad-
ows of the Italian quarter of the East Side two
other murders that have baffled the efforts Of
detectives. the killing Weisbard. the jewelry
pedler whose body found in trunk a
year or more ago. and of Catania the Brooklyn
grocer. whose corpse was discovered in gunny
sack.
After the arrests Inspector McClusky said
that for months he had been working in con-
junction with the United States Secret Service
men in keeping the members of this gang under
the strictest surveillance and that it was
through the work of the federal authorities tnat
he hoped to connect them with the murder
The eight prisoners all italians. locked up at
Police Headuuarte ers are Joseph Fanaro, mer-
chant of No - Rivngton-st.; Massina Geneva
importer. of No ia East Fifteenth-st; Lorenzo
Lobodo, merchant, of No 3OS Mott-st; VITO
Loboido. Iaborer of No. 30S Mott-st-; Dominica
Pecorraro, ffty-three years old. farmer OF NO
1S9 Chrystie-st.: Pietro Inzarilo, confectioner'
of No 226 Elzabeth-st.: Giuseppe Morello
agent of No 226 Elizabeth-st.. and Tomas
Pecco. clothes presser of No Us Eiizabeth-st-
was
name is Antonio Geneva.
Secret Service Agents Henry, Burke and
Ritchfe have been watching the movements OF
the members of the gang that met at the
butcher shop of Vito Labuco at No Is Stanton
81 who has not been arrested, but for whom
the police are looking. On Monday evening
thew say they saw the murdered man. who they
declare was to them a newcomer in the circles
of the gang in the butcher shop He sat IN 'he
front they said. and alone In the rear We're
Geneva. Pecorraro and Morello. the latter pelng
the leader of the band according to the police
With them was another man whom the ponce
saw they don't knew. The four were seated in a
group about table and were in earnest con-
versaton.
This was about 7:45 p m After time one
Of the four went to the front door and nailed
heavy cloth over the window glass of the door-
About & o'clock a ricketty covered wagon, drawn
nv one horse. was driven up to the shop Two
men we're on the seat One Of them went III
side while the other drove away
Frffteen minutes later the shop apparently was
closed. the men leaving separately and IN t"oS-
At that time the Secret Service men dlscoh-
tinued their work for the night
The Secret Service men went to the Morsue
on Tuesday night and positively identihed the
body there as that of the man they had seen IN
the butcher shop
After the arrest Of the men last night, IN
spector Schmittberger sent detectives to the nat
on the top floor Of the tenement house at NO ltS