The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-09-25


,towaway if certain members ol "
,hin's crew make up their minds 10
10 50 Men have been seWed up III
mattresses, headed up in casks ana
have been undiscovered after hours ol
nersistent search. Later on It mas
been equally simple for the sto"aW"!
IN make his way off the ship ana out
on the pier in an old suit of oVeraIlS
or a uniform. This has been done not
once hut countless times, ana the au-
thorities have seemed to be poWeFleSs
to prevent 1t.
wHE Italian criminal has genulneiy
/ hard time of it in his own country.
He is beset by police regulauonS' Il
he is an eX-cOnviCt he is under 'he
constant necessity Of reporting Ire
ouently to the police; he cannot carry
any deadly weapon-not even poch-
etknife-and the permission or lhe
chief of police is necessary before ne
can obtain employment. The Ia" IN
addition says that he must not leave
Italy, refusing him passport HIS
has made the smuggling Of the crlml-
nal on ships bound for the Onl'ed
States quite profitable little subln-
dnstrv among BLACK Hand sympa-
thizers who happen to hold posts OF
one sort or another upon the Medlter-
ranean steamers. AS the months go
bv one criminal after another slips
through and almost invariably makes
his way into New York.
The nameless brotherhood has ye'
other projects of reform in view Il
confesses freely that, regarding 'hs
nublic part of its work, it wants thf
open support of the people ana th'
, government. 1t will ask for maKln'
:, punishable by Imprisonment as wei
, as nv fine the carrying OF firearms. l
} will demand the restriction of the sal
). of fireworks to national mondays
Y Now there are innumerable saint:
t DAYS among the Italian population {
|. New York, and these celebrations ar
Il elaborate beyond all description. FIR
!. works have grown to be very lare
O and important feature of them Inc
e are a constant source of danger Tor u
g reason that during the firing OH
s rockets and the incident noise OF otn'
le exnlosions there is ample opportum
N for a criminal who wants to setlle
private grudge Or to terrorlze IN son
way to whip a pistol from his pocK
g. and fire hurriedly. His victims orr
N in the general excitement and holS
10 if is scarcely known how.
Sc an EVERY vessel sailing from +
I'd " ermo or Naples are a dozen
as more members of the Cammorra
ly the Malta, employed as sailors, co
he beavers and stewards, says Llnos
IS. Denison in Everybodys. 1t IS I'M
le, fraternal duty to aid their brethr
en- to evade the passport law. II the
he are six or more members of shl
ry. company earnestly DESTROYS OF G.
ey cealing a stowaway the thing can
di- WAYS be done. There are recorc
nj instances where stowaway has Dc
hunted for three hours by 70 m
ms after all the officers and crew nj
i'm heen sent ashore, and has remall
on undiscovered because he was sew
ort up in mattress in bunk.
the When the steamship has tied up
or her berth in an American port,
by fugitive puts on the uniform or O.
GER alls of one of his confederates
der easily makes his way off the pier.
or thus a seasoned and hardened CT
ted nal. his blood-stained hands against
ust the world as the worlds hands
avs against him, he is turned loose IN
,wn land of the free and the home OF
lier brave. Every steamship man
cerned in the Mediterranean u
led knows something Of the system;
a Of them has admitted these facts.
nee is the theory of the professional
n a liceman of America that the lta
the criminal comes to US through FIJI
and Canada. That is nonsense
,;ofs has neither the intelligence nor
here means.
are The ex.convict has the New
a address of one or more former r
nails hers of his society in Italy
,ord- makes his way to this address
g en- quickly as he may he Is VIII
Now work and in a strange country. IL
hese he that happy chance will find ne
they work for him at once. But usual
GER ;s not so. He becomes, more ike
willing and useful tool OF the +
IVORY Hand" a dependent on the gener
ro1,y of more thoroughly acclimated
ro;gn nails The stealthy delivery OF
4 in mailing letters, the stabbings'
with bomb paintings, and even the mu
Cd tn of the BLACK Hand" type are DOL
h;e men who are so ignorant and SO
asset less that they face starvation II
mon do not carry out the orders OF
"a CO. "Black Hand" thugs who mouse
IT,. oftor their SurTept