The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-04-22
CHIEF
MAY GO FREE
EIfanO, Alleged Italian Desperate,
Caught in New York. May
Be Set at Liberty

New York. April 21.-E Enrico Ella
no, wanted in Italy for many crimes,
may be released tomorrow unless re-
Quisition papers arrive from Italy or
strong representations are made al
the state department at Washington
The arrest of Efano unfolds the
story Of his romantic career in Italy.
He was head of the mysterious Cam
marysti di Napoli, or the Cammorra,
an lta inn terrorist organization. He
was active as a bandit, but was COM
PEELED to flee to America to escape
arrest for assassination
Death was the punishment inflict-
ed upon one Cuocolo, pretender to
the position of ruler of the Cammar-
ystis, aud Elfano is declared to be the
slayer Ct his rival. The pretender
was lured to forest where he was
stabbed to death, it is claimed, by
Elfano and his conspirators. Then
the wife of Cuocolo was condemned.
Elfano and his men called at the
home of Cuocolo and when the wife
opened the door she was stal bed. her
body pierced by dozen slender
shafts of steel. The assassins spur
red the gendarmes to extraordjna-
ry activity. Elfano and the conspira-
tors seemed immune from prosecu-
ton. Indeed, he was held by the
populace as demigod, free to roam
at will, unharmed because enveloped
with some divine authority. But Ell
fano suddenly disappeared, going to
New York. The Cammora thrived in
New York, too, with all its sinister
machinations, which baffled the po-
lice, even the Italian detectives By
the New York Cammora the chief was
greeted with many honors. feast
was prepared in honor of the coming
leader and Elfano was banqueted at
the Pa7 ochi, an underground resort.
But this feast was his undoing. He
was spied upon by a follower of the
murdered pretender and word was
passed to Petrosini and Archiopolli,
New York's italian detectives. Their
subsequent descent upon the East
Side underground resort ended the
bandit liberty.
AS he appeared before Magistrate
House in the police court yesterday
nlfano had the appearance OF an Ital-
ian of high rank. He wore a suit of
fine texture, nodded to his slender
form He admitted through an in
terpretsr that he was Elfano but de-
MED that he had committed any
crime. He was, he cody declared.
visiting the United States because OF
the frequency of political arrests in
Italy
The utmost endeavors of the police
TO discover Elfano's headouNrters are
futile. They realize that powerful
influences are with him in his pres
ent predicament and are not at all
certain hat they can hold him for ex
traditi IN.
Escaped Disguised as Stoker.
Naples, April 21-Details were OBJ
tainable today of the escape from It
ally of Frrico Elfano, known as "er-
ricone,'' head of the Cammora secret
society. whose eXtradition is now
sought for by the italian authorities.
The local police authorities, who had
long suspected him of being connect
ed with the Cammora, ordered a big
squad CT gendarmes to arrest him,
but Elfano. having associated with
him all classes of the population, was
notified of the intention to take him
into custody and was successful in
leaving Naples. He went from vii
in the effort to elude capture. Al
San Loucio, near Caserta, the gen
darmes surrounded house in which
Elfano was concealed but he sue
ceeded in escaping and took a train
for Rome. On arriving there Elfano
consulted a lawyer and remained in
hiding for a week But, lacking the
certain protection of the CammOra
which is a Neapolitan organization
hlfano returned here. The gen
darmes were closing in on ElfanC
and he eventually secured a false
passport and escaped to the United
States, disguised as a stoker