The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-21
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BENEDETTO MADONNA. WHO'D
rHREATENED COINERS GANG.
He Was Try1ng 70 Mako Them Give Up TIE
Property q His .Brethcr-in-law. Cen
victed Member o. Their Crew-Tbey
Feared He'a Ten q Thear Crimea
Bensdstto Madonna, an Italian stons-
mason, Of q Trenton street. Buffalo. the
father Of five children, and suspected OF
being . professional pssser OF counterfeit
money. was the man whose body was found
| In IN old sugar barrel at Eleventh street
and Avenue d. last Tuesday morning.
Five parsons who knew Nsdonia well
identified the body yesterday. his brother
in-law, counterfeiter. now serving term
| In Sing Sing Prison. recognized . photo
graph Of the body, and when other photo
graphs were shown to ths dead mans
wife In Buffalo she said at oncs that Il va
her husband.
MOTIVE FOE THE clnu ALSO POUND.
In addition to olinching the idsntt0os-
ton Of tho murdered man, the polins. aidsd
BY Agent Flynn Of the Secret Service.
have found Q motive for the ostms. No
donna came TO New York from Buffalo early
this month to demand Of the gang Of oour-
terfeiters that the property Of his brothsr-
in-law. Giuseppe dc Prismo. . uasmbsr
Of the gang. who was sent to Sing Sing
for three years last month for oountsr-
| feiting, Be turned over to him.
His demand was refused. 70 hs went =
Sing Sing. had an interview with D. Phsmo
and came back with enough evidAnos 10
send every member Of the gang to jan for
oounterfeiing. He attempted to uss this
information a. club to force the gang TO
disgorge the property Of De Priemo. was
lured to some place. believed by the polics
| to have been the cellar OF Inserillo's candy
store at 226 Elizabeth street. and thew
| killed
HOW THE VICTIM WAS TRACED.
Although there Is plenty TO indicste that
| at least two Of the Italians who have been
pretending to help the police In their e6oTts
| to and out who the murdered man was.
have known from the first that he was
Madonna. the Identification was brought
about by the systematic work Of Detsctivs
Sergeant Petrosino Of Inspector MoC1us-
ky's staff
Petrosno and McClusLy went to Secret
Agent Flynn on Saturday last and asked
for the names Of all OF the members Of the
gang OF counterfeiters now under arreet
who have recently been sent to jail by the
United States authorities.
The drst names that Flynn gave Petrisino
were those Of Giuseppe 0Tlambsrdo.
and salvatore Romano. he thres last
named were arrested In Yonkerr on Dec.
81. charged with passing the counts1feIt
6ve-dollar notes Of the National Iron Rank
HoreIio had dealt. -.
sPLsT IN CoUNTx1FxITERa oAxo. = s.
A month later Guiismberdo wss arsvssd
all save Romano were convicted and sent TO
Sing Sing At the time there was row In
the gang, De Priemo declaring that u
Morello and the others had stuck to him
he would never have been convicted
With this information In his possession
Petroeino went to Sing Sing and yesterday
morning he showed photographs OF the
murdered man TO Guilambardo and Css-
serverra. They declared that they had
never seen the dead MAJ
PICTURE RECOGNIZED BY CONVICT.
The moment the photograph was shown
10 De Priemo. however. he exclaimed:
THAT 10 my brother-in-law. Benedefto
He was here TO see me only the other day.
DE Priemo then gave an accurate descrir-
tion OF The victim, down to the very cloth
ing he wore OH Saturday before last wbal
that his lbrotber-in-law had been muir
dered De Priemo tainted. but no amount
OF persuasion could induce him 10 tel any
thing more about the dead man, save thu
he belonged In Buffalo.
From Warden johnson OF Sing Sing.
Petrosino learned uiat on Saturday, April
II. Madona called at Sing Sing with
letter from J. p. 0'Connor OF the law frn'
OF Cornell 4 OConnor of ii8 Nassau str,Ncf.
who defended De Priemo and his comradss
when they were tried. asking that Mad onis
be allowed to see De Priemo al once wihou
waiting for the regular visitors dar. ~
the disposition Of considerable properly
belonging 10 the prisoner depended on TIE
interview.
Petrosino telephoned HE discoveries ~
Inspector McCl,isky and then etar,ed 70
Buffalo, while tho Detective Bureau tool.
up the local end Of the case A. once.
LAWYERS RERE HAD SEN HIN.
knowing lha, ConneD O'Connor
did much business with Italians. the police
had carly in the o,se asked their help v
identifying the dead man. Peter
Acri'eIli and George NJ. De Vile. who arc
associated with the firm, had sren photo
graphs Of the dead man and descriptions
Of his clothing. but had never intinatei
tHht tfty lhl tecn Vic nl6I1 Do Ofe.
The firm was called in the other da-
after the roundup OF Morello's gang, "a
counsel for Vito and Lorenzo I>oboido.
Domenico Pecoraro and Giuseppe La :.
lania. OF course that ended their work
with the police. but at the sane time they
offered any assistance they oould give In
identifying the dead man.
Assistant District Attorney Garvsn and
Inspector McClusky's Detectives got word
Of the Identification " the jefferson Market
police court yestSrday morning IN the
course OF the examination OF the thirteen
prisoners before Magistrate Barlow. Mr..
Garvan promptly asked each prisoner o.
he was arraigned II he knew q man named
Benedetto Meduena, which was tbs way
the police first had the name.
Each denied knowing such q man. bat
the inst time the question was asked there
was q great babbling In Italian among the
prisoners and they were apparently very
much excited.
Acritelli. who was in court, at once told
Mr.. Garvan that b knew Q man named
Renedetto Madonna. that he had occurred q
letter for him from J. p 0Connor on April
10 that he might zee his brother-in-Iaw.
prisoner In Sing Sing Pison.
Told that Madonna was the man who had
been killed he went to Police Headquarters
and mad. this statement:
STATEMENT or huRpKnk MANS ATToaHBY