The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1909-03-14
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called to-day several incidents in Petro-
sino's career which might have direct
bearing on his end
Most people in New York VIII remem-
Der the barrel murder mystery OF 1902.
Petroslao handled that case
In the mutilated face Of the victim he
fancied he saw a resemblance 90 Giuseppe
Di Primo. a Syrian who had been sent
70 Sing Sing for counterfeiung. He went
10 Sing Sing with a photograph OF the
murdered man. and d! Primo identified IL
as a picture OF his brother. Petrosino
rounded I'D s. gang Of coun:erfeiters and
thugs. but complete evidence was lacking
20 convict any or them Later, when ID
Primo was discharged from Sins Sing,
/ Petrosino arrested him several times. He
/ believed that III Primo knew the truth
abou; the killing OF his brother. and he
used number OF stra tagems not Of the
/ gentlest 20 compel Di Primo TO name
/ the murderer.
officer Il Defed.
/ II was not OF the slightest use. Di
Primo laughed at the detective and de
/ fed him: also. he came 10 hate him most
/ thoroughly. Six months ago Commits
sioner Woods had Primo deported rs an
lex-criminal The day he sailed for his
/ home at Lercara. not far from the city
of Palmero. where Petrosino was shot
to death last night. d Primo made this
/ remark. which came back 10 the Italian
detective bureau:
/ IF Petrosino or any OF the Italian po-
lice, or those under him, ever come 70
Italy. they VIII never leave il alive
They remembered that threat OF ID
Primo to-day. and It is more than likely
that the ex-convict viii be nabbed by the
Italian police when the State Department
moves ia the matter. The last heard OF
Di Primo he was living in his home town
OF Lercara-
/ Last June q remarkable and notorious
man came 10 New York from Palermo
/ Enric0 AlOfano. whose appearance N New
York, where he landed with the intention
Of becoming an American citizen. was
( preceded by the information that he had
been the most resourceful and active
Camorra leader Of the last quarter Of a
century Information came directly tC
1 Petrosino. who had friends among the
Sicilian projects Of police. and AlofanC
had not been IN New York six hours be-
fore the detective paid him a visit He
found the Camorra chief n one Of The
dirty little underground dens OF the Ital
ian quarters. 20 the west OF the Bowery
You can't stay here. my friend" said
PetrOSinO. briefly.
i am going to be citizen. a good
man, said the Neapolitan. anyway
you can't send me back
Criminal Is DepOrted.
| PetrosinO took a chair and talked 4
Alofano about an hour. Three days late
the CamOrra leader went back 20 italy
The instant the steamship reached Ma
pies he was nabbed by italian police
\ agents for the murder Of three men II
Naples. His trial IS going on over Their,
now. Alofano knew as assurediy as h,
knew he was alive that Petrosino ha,
cabled the Italian police. He would hav,
slipped through their net had it not beer
! for the American detective
Very recently. only last June, an Ital
ian. who had been on trial twenty year
ago for the murder OF g distinguished ulai
Of his country. arrived in New York OF
I a visit. Petrosino's information was tina
the visitor was RafaelO PalizzOlo. tn
active leader of the Malta. Of Sicily
/ PetrOsinO watched him like a hawk
PaliZzOIO received company, and italian
from what PetrOsino called the sevel
bad provinces Of Italy" slipped int
Palizzolo's room or met him IN win
shops.
They spoke to him as they would Z
an accredited leader. They loaded hin
with complaints They said that black
mail over here was productive and profit
) able. but unorganized. Groups preyed o.
: groups Sicilians blaclCmailed Sicilians
! The business lacked system and leader
: Mostly they complained 70 PaliZzolo con
corning the constant activities Of PetTo
, slnO and the rest or the Italian squad O
/ detectives. busy and perniciously watch
: ful gentlemen. who had made the graf
dangerous and uncertain. They wante
, Palizzoio's advice. What could be don
' about PetrosinO?
2 When the detective thought these con
: ferences had gone far enough. n
5 dropped In on Pal.zZOlO and talked Wit
2 him Shortly afterward PallzZolO pickle
: up his belongings, cut his visit short. an
turned his back on the sUffeTings OF N
! Malta and the Camorra in this city
Motives Made Plain.
I; was not hard TO find motives FOR IN
4, assassination. In fact, Petrosino'S friend
and assistants. far more than anythin
r else that the depOrted criminals and III
! italian connections OF criminals that b
Z has sent to the penItentlary here hat
done. may create by their number con