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the gang has caught more than FIVE.
However, only five are positively
known now to have perished. That
leaves about seven, for of the 1e who
were arrested only IL we're suspected
of actual participation in the murder.
Di Primo Man OF Mystery.
And Giuseppe di Primo, who swore
the dreadful oath of the vendetta
when he heard of his brother-in.law's
murder, "ov'e?" as the Sicilians say
where is he? Where has he been in
these last two years? He was in Buff
falo last New Years day, but his go
ings and comings are sudden, silent,
unexplained. When he is seen his
face always bears that cold, cruel,
crooked smile, and the Sicilians Of
Mulberry street.-the vast. respectable
majority who mind their own business
and have nothing to do with gangs or
criminal secret societies-hint that on
the dates of those five murders Giu.
seppe di Primo might have been found
not many miles away from the scene
of each. These men also predict that
within two years every man of the
gang that was suspected of the barrel
murder will have been overtaken by
a cold, cruel, crooked smile and
bullet or dagger.
There are those who believe that
the murder of Salvatore Marchese, or
Marchioni, had some connection with
that of di Luca, but it will probably
be found that their terminations-one
in Sicily, one In America-were stimuli.
taneous merely by chance. Both, how.
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ing the theater in the little town of
Carini, near Palermo, and that the
crime was connected with one in
America. The news did not seem i'm
portant, but at almost the same time
Salvatore Marchione, or Marchese,
was killed here, and the coincidence
appeared so strange in view of the
cabled reference to "a crime in Amer
ica." that the item found place in
the newspapers.
1t was read by many Italians with a
knowing smile and by few with a
black frown. For to them 1t had a
deep and sinister meaning. One or
two of them held up five fingers and
whispered five names, of which that
of Vito di Luca, the man killed in
Sicily, was the fifth.
Vito di Luca or Laduca, for he has
been known by both names, used to
keep butchers shop In Stanton
street, Manhattan, in 1908, and sub
sequently opened two in Brooklyn,
then one in Baltimore If you men
ton his name at police headquarters
the will recall the famous barrel
murder" one of the unsolved mys-
teries Of crime in New York, and it
is probable they will turn to picture
in the Rogues' gallery bearing the
name of Vito di Luca, alias Vito La
duca. They will also show you a por-
trait of Giuseppe di Primo, who, they
will tell you, was the brother-in-law
of Benedetto Madonna, whose mutilat-
ed body was found one April morning
In 1908 packed in a barrel at Avenue
ID and Eleventh street. They will
add that no one was convicted of that
crime, but that strange fatality has
pursued the men who were arrested
on suspicion, but who escaped with no
punishment save fine for carrying
concealed weapons.
Di Primo Then in Sing Sing.
At the time of that murder Giu4
seppe di Primo was in Sing Sing, serv-
ing a sentence for counterfeiting. He
was the distributor of large gang of
counterfeiters on whose trail Detec-
tive Petrosini (who was killed few
weeks ago in Sicily had been camp
ing, and he was the first fruits of
Petrosini's work. After his sentence
Benedetto Madonna made frantic ef-
forts to get him liberated A certain
Tomasso Petto, known as "Petto the
OK" visited di Primo in prison sew
eral times. Madonna was living in
Buffalo, but he made many mysteri-
GUS trips to this city and Pittsburg.
The night before his body was found
he had been seen by three secret serv-
ice men in the butcher shop of Giu-
seppe di Luca, in Stanton street. in
company with several others of the
men suspected of counterfeiting.
Giuseppe di Primo, in prison, identified
a photograph of the murdered man as
that of his brother-in-law The barrel
in which the body had been packed
was similar to those in di Lucas
butcher shop.
AS soon as the murder became
known the secret service men who had
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MAKE THEIR MONEY GO FAR
Women Workers Of Paris, France,
Neatly and Prettily Dressed on
$3.50 Month.

There Is proposal on foot to insti-
tute series of prizes to be awarded
every year to those girls employed in
the workshops of the Paris dress and
costume-makers who are found to
keep up the best appearance through
out the year on the smallest sum.
The ingenuity of the Paris midi
nette" in presenting becoming ap-
pearance on a ridiculously small sum
is proverbial. One of these girls.
whose age is just II, recently de-
scribed how she managed last year to
limit her total expenditure on clothing
to trifie over six pounds. In the
summer, she said, her outlay was as
follows; Hosiery and boots 20s; par
asol, IS; shape for a straw hat, which
she trimmed herself, rs Cd; veil, As;
trimmings, ribbons, ETC., los; gloves,
2s sd.
Il pulled my previous summers
dress TO pieces" she continued. "and
made it up anew by lengthening the
waist, so as to make it look as fash.
ionable as those we work on in the
workrooms. OF course, | am able to
pick up many little bargain, and
sometimes bits of ribbon and silk come
our way for very little.
Il succeeded last year in dressing
myself so as to look neat on Sundays
and holidays, for an average of los
month, without assistance from any.
body, so that it is quite possible to
dress neatly, with little trouble, and
still remain a good girl!"-London
Mail.
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let's. the first in the feet, the second
in the right knee, the third in the
groin, the fourth and last in the
heart, and Petto the Ok fell dead.
Girolamo Mondini was one of the
later suspects arrested by McCluskey.
He had been one of Rafaello Paliz-
zolo's band of cabmen in Palermo that
had the reputation OF fondness for
killing for the fun of 1t. A more des-
perate set of men than these never
lived. 1t is on record that billiard
hall proprietor offered one of these
men fifteen lire ($3) one night to
stick a stiletto In the leg of per-
fect stranger who had created dis
turbance in the billiard hall. The
cabman took the money, followed the
man and an hour later drove up in
front OF the billiard hall, lifted out
OF his cab the strangers corpse with
row of is stiletto wounds in the
chest, laid the grisly thing on the
pavement, tossed the fifteen lire into
the door and drove away
Second Man Lured to Death.
Mondini and Petto were close
friends and the former did the lat
ter's letter writing. He was not in
di Lucas butcher shop the night
Madonna was murdered
On November IA, 1906, just month
after Petto's death, Mondini received
a message purporting to be from a
friend, calling him to No. 305 East
One Hundred and Sixth street. He
went, but instead of his friend he met
a man at sight of whom he turned IN
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shanty near mining settlement out.
side Scranton. He behaved as if he
was in hiding. His neighbors spoke
of his strangely-guarded actions.
One early morning he heard a voice
calling mis- name. Somebody was com.
ing up the hill path. He took up his
heavy revolver and stepped boldly to
the door. Petto raised his gun and
fired, He missed. The other man
sent bullet through Petto's pistol
hand knocking the revolver out of
reach, and then he planted his bul.
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| were brought in, slammed on the
floor before the inspector and
searched. A heap of deadly coltelli
and pistols and many rosaries were
shaken from them. Each was in a
panic of terror and their cries for
mercy mingled with the curses of the
officers. Trembling and bleeding,
their clothing torn from them, they
were lined up and put through the
third degree. When McClusky was
through and the wretches were hustled
away to their cells the inspector said: /:
We'll, boys, we have got the right
men, and it is our fault IL we don't
put half of them in the chair
Could Not BE Proved Guilty.
On Petto the Ok were found pawn
tickets for the murdered mans watch
and other effects; clothing on the dead
mans body was identified as belong.
ing to several members of the gang,
and they were the persons seen with
him two hours before the finding OF
his mutilated body.
But none of these men was convict
ed of murder. Petto the Ok was in.
dicted for murder in the first degree
and committed to the Tombs without
bail, and seven of his associates were
at first held as witnesses, but as the
district attorney was unable to gather
enough evidence against them they
were released. Petto's friends en-
gagged the best of counsel and after
year in prison the district attorney
consented to his liberation on his own
recognizance, on the ground that he
had insufficient evidence to convict
him.,
The failure to convict the barrel
murder gang for anything more serious
than carrying concealed weapons was
one of the most costly miscarriages of
American justice on record. That
gang was the first fruits of the Black
Hand. and If it had been crushed and
its rooted connection dug up and de.
stroyed there might be no Black
Hand to-day, but the best that Petro-
SIM and the New York police could
do was to drive them out of New
York.
-> fhy thSy "SiC Ittu 1luStDUe
di Primo was in state of wildly ex-
cited suspense. When he heard the
news he raved, but suddenly grew
quiet, and kneeling with his rosary in
his hands, he swore the great oath of
vendetta. Then he waited. sending
word to his friends outside the prison
walls to keep constant trace of the
gang, that he wanted to know always
where they were. At the end of his
three years term he walked out of
the doors of the prison, an exultant
smile on his crooked mouth, took
train for Buffelo, saw the widow and
children of Madonna, tried his eye and
hand for an hour in Niagara street
shooting gallery. found that he was
still the wonderful marksman he had
been. and then vanished
"Petto the OK" First Victim.
Giuseppe di Primo Is a little man.
with a thin, hard face and a crooked
mouth. All who know him remember
him by his smile, WHICH is crooked
and cruel.
AS soon as di Primo was released
from Sing Sing Petto the Ok vanished
from New York. He went to Penn.
sylvania and was soon living in
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been on the trail Of the counterfeiting
gang told Inspector McClusliy, then in
command OF the detective bureau, all
they knew, and in a few hours time
a dozen squads oil four powerful and
heavily-armed detectives left head.
quarters and pounced on l6 prisoners
in various parts of the city and at
once rushed them to headquarters.
There ensued one of the strangest
scenes ever witnessed in No. 300 Mul-
berry street. Each squad was stripped
90 handle its prisoner, The gangsters
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Motor Vehicles In eermanu.

At the end of 1908 there were Al.
727 motor vehicles in use in Germany
including 2O,92S motorcycles. In the
yeare there was an increase of 5.7O5 in
motor cars. Accidents numbered 5.O6s
increase, 225) with 2,63O persons in.
iured and l4l killed Allowing for the
increase in cars, there was a decrease
IN the rronortion Of accidents.
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run. but bullet dropped him before
he had taken two steps.

run, but a bullet dropped him before
he had taken two steps.
The second of the suspects in the
barrel murder case had met his fate.
Ignazio Lupo, the wolf" was the
business man of the gang. His saloon
in Prince street was q favorite rem
devious of the counterfeiters He was
slightly Geformed and had very cum
ming mind. When the trouble was all
over he changed his name to De Loup
and was in business in the Bronx
colony uptown. About the time of di
Primo's release he disappeared and
no one knew where he was until one
night he was found near the railroad
tracks in Niagara Falls with bullet
hole in his head and before he died
in the Sisters hospital he told Gior-
dano Carmelo that it was the Madonna
vendetta which had overtaken him.
Slain on Monte Pelegrino.
Behind Palermo grim and desolate
mountain rises. 1t is called Monte
Pelegrino, and it has seen enough
bloodshed for every rock to bear a
stain. The people of the city speak
of a man going the way of Pelegrino,"
which means with them the way of
death at the hands of the Malta. In
the old city Nicola Nera was known
before he came to America merely as
fruit vender who went about with a
tray of melons, figs or oranges on his
head. He left Palermo hastily after
the disclosure in the marvellous
Ricardi-Gavonne murder case and
joined the barrel gang here. The re-
turning tide of Italians homeward-
bound for Christmas year ago took
him back with clean police record
He had been hauled in as a suspect
merely. One night last fall he was
drinking in little wine shop. when a
little emaciated man with a crooked
smile came in, tapped him on the
shoulder and said something in his
ear. Nicola Nera began to tremble
violently, but rose and followed the
stranger out. The next morning his
body was found on Monte Pelegrino.
The fourth of the barrel murder sus.
poets was wiped out,
l.. Luca, whose murder in Sicily has
Just been announced. makes the fifth
II may be that some Of the unidenti-
fed Sicilans who have been found in
various parts OF the world in the last
two years bearing the signs of having
been murdered were members of this
gang. II so the Nemesis that follows
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GETTING" THE,M
ONE BY ONE
The Violent Deaths, in Different
Parts of the World, of the Men
Accused of Completely in the Crime
of Killing Giuseppe di Primo's Bro
ther-in-LaW.

EW YORK.-A cable
gram from Italy the
other day brought the
information that Vito
di Luca, "a land own
err" had been shot and
killed as he WAS leaY-
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Sporting News

Johnson March 81, 1878. Jerfries is
therefore Johnson's senior by three
years Jeifries began fighting in 1896
and retired shortly after his affair
with Jack Munroe in 1904 Johnson
according to the record had his first
fight in 1901, his opponent being Joe
Choynski. Jeifries had been champion
of the world for nearly two years be
fore Johnson made his first public ap-
pearance in the prize ring,
Jefries, II he has been quoted cor
rectly, he said repeatedly that he will
make short work of Johnson This
goes TO show what wonderful conn
dence Jeffries has in his own re-
sources. for I have Jeffries' word for
it that he believes Johnson the peer
Of all heayyweignts that have been
mentioned as possible champions since
Jeffries' retirement
AS Jeffries went out OF the business
because there were no more worlds
TO conquer. aud as Johnson IS beyond
argument the best man the world has
produced since JeffrieS tossed aside
the gloves, IT must certainly be said
that the winner in this coming fight
will be fairly entitled to sign him
self champion OF the world.
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MAI. ANDERSON IS
NOT LIEUT.. KING

San Francisco. Aug. ARRESTED
here Thursday. under the name Of
Major Anderson U. s. A. and lat.
er declared by Secret Service Agent
Harry Moffatt to be Lieutenant Har
ry King, a man wearing a United
States army officers uniform and haY-
ing many papers in his possession
purporting to show that he was Leu
tenant King. confessed in Jail last
night that he was Thomas F. Hean.
ey, formerly a hotel clerk In Brook
field. Mass
Heaney declared that, for FIVE years.
he had been posing as Lieutenant
King. son OF General Horatio King,
and that he had been received in
many cities without question under
that name.
Heaney took great pains to carry
out the imposture. His card case
was engraved Lieutenant Harry
King. son of General Horatlo King"
He had numerous letters from army
officers and even from the depart
ment at Washington. addressed Lieu
tenant King" and because of ocquaint-
ance with the real King, was able to
pass as the latter among army men
who knew the lieutenant by sight.
Heaney was arrested on telegTaphic
adyices from Los Angeles. stating
that a man OF his description was
wanted there for forgery.
Lieutenant Harry King is In the
Philippines,
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DIAMOND DEALERS ARE
DOING a GOOD BUSINESS

. New York. August G-The prosper
ity Of the western farmer has depict
ed the stocks OF diamonds in Maiden
Lane, and the importing houses there
have hurried their buyers across the
ocean to purchase new supplies. Deal
ers say that the lethargy which began
In the jewelry trade two years ago had
been followed of late bv so great an
increase in business, that trade is TAX
en- by surprise and that even the larg-
est dealers are finding II difficult to
fill orders for the higher grades of
perfect stones.
Although S5,00o000 worth OF gems
were imported into this country last
month, a quantity five times greater
than the same month last year, the
dealers have been unable to fill or
ders. They say that the orders from
the middle west and the northwest are
The most urgent. and as those regions
are reporting record-breaking crops.
the importers are Of the opinion that
the jewels, or al least many of them,
are going 10 the farmers wives.
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EEL WINS BY NOSE
IN TWO-MlNUTE PACE

Kalamazoo. Mich, Aug 6.-The
grand circuit meeting wound up with
great racing and the fastest heats
of the year. In the two-minute pace
the Eel was fayorite and justified the
opinion in which he was held, winning
by a nose from Citation, while she
beat Aileen Wilson as much. Re-
suits.
2:oe pace purse Walter Hal
won in straight heats. Time, 2:o9 IL;
2.0S 1-2; 2 10.
2:10 trot, purse $1,000 Country Jay
won in straight heats Time, 2:10 IL:
90 IA; 2:09 IA.
200 pace, purse S1,5O0-The Eel
won two straight heats. Time. 2:O5,
02 3-4.
224 trot, purse $1,000-Baron Nc
Kinney won i'll straight heats. Time,
2:1S 1-2; 2:17 Ia, 2.15 81.
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RIVER PACKET RUNS
INTO A DENSE FOG

Pittsburg, August THE river
packet Ohio. with a number OF pas
sengers aboard. ran into dense fog
two miles above Sisters island, short
distance above Wheeling. last night
and was forced TO tie up.
The Ohio had but about four inches
of water between her hull and the
shallow spot between Sisters Island
and PittSburg, When the fog liite1
il was discovered that the four Inches
of water had disappeared during the
night
Captain E. J. Mady sighed and put
the passengers and freight on trains
bound for this city,
This was the fifth unsuccessful al
tempt in five weeks TO reach this port
by the captain of the packet.
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MAYORS LIFE IS
AGAIN THREATENED

Los Angeles, Cal. Aug. Former
Mayor William H. Workman yestef.
day received another letter threaten
ing his life. evidently from the same
source as the letters previously re-
ceiyed b. him, which have set the pc
lice to searching for a man who may
be either a harmless lunatic or dan
gerous criminal.
The efforts Of the police to learn
the identity of the man. who has
threatened the lives OF three promin.
ent residents Of Boyle Heights. and
the destruction OF their property BY
dynamite, have thus far proved futile
The homes of the men are being clcse-
" guarded by police.
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CHEVROLET MAKES
GOOD RECORD

Buffalo, Aug G.-Louls Chevrolet,
The French sped marvel, fell short
only a few seconds in eaualing the
worlds record for fifty miles over
circular track at Fort Erie today In a
race with F. S. Lorimer Barney Old
field having refused the Issue because
his car was not working well The
Frenchman covered the fifty miles in
90 10 1-5.
As preliminary to the big match
race between Oldfeld and Walter
Christie the two met today in three
mile race in which Christie drove his
record breaker, while Oldfeld was at
the wheel OF his new racer, Benz
Christie won easily, the time for the
three miles being 2:49
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MUMMY FOUND AMONG
UNCLAIMED FREIGHT

Chicago, August IA supposed
mummy having the appearance Of the
embalmed body of an Indian sQuaw
and her papoose was found yesterday
by employees of the Chicagi G. North
western railway, when a rough pine
box was opened at the warehouse for
unclaimed freight.
The box and its contents have been
In the possession Of the railway com
pany since March g 1908. when il was
shipped AT Los Angeles TO H w
kleeb. at Battle Creek. Iowa. No one
ever appeared to claim the property.
and it was sent 10 Chicago 10 be sold.
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is in earnest, writes that she has been
informed that the benevolent govern
ment is furnishing brides for imml-
grants. and asked the commissioner,
ito please place her name on the list
of eligibles should any immigrant be
seeking a mate Of mature years"
She describes herself as an un-
encumbered widow, aged 35, five feet,
six inches tall, Weighing 160 pounds,
OF good appearance and address, ac-
complished, domesticated. thoroughly
healthy and of amiable disposition.
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JOHNSON UNDER ARREST FOR
VIOLATING SPEED LIMIT.

London. Ont, Aug, 6-Jack John
son. the negro pugilist, was arrested
here today on a telegram from the
chief OF police OF Woodstock, Ont
Johnson is alleged 10 have gone
through Woodstock at an excessive
rate of speed In his motor car and TO
have run down another motoriSt,
smashing his machine.
johnson was locked up pending his
transfer to Woodstock
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BROKE GOLF RECORD.

Tuxedo Park, n. Y. Aug 6-Harry
Vinall. well-known professional golfer
and instructor Of the Tuxedo Golf
club, In an exhibition match today,
broke all records for the course, doing
the Is holes In 20 and the SO holes in
141 The best previous record for the
&c holes was 147, made by Vinall two
years ago. The amateur record is held
by l.. S. Kellogg, who made 70, 81
leg
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WILBUR GLENN VOlVIA
MAY BE IMPRISONED D

Chicago, August Wilbur Glenn
Nolvia, Of Zion City, successor TO the
late John Alexander Dowie as over
seer of the Christian Catholic Apostle
lie church, may be imprisoned in Lake
county jail In few davs.
A judgment against him for 10000,
entered last Thursday by Judge Rob-
ert Wright Of Belvidere in favor OF
Attorney Philip Mothersill. who sued
Volvla for SANDER and libel, must be
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WIDOW
WANTS A GOOD HUSBAND

New York, Aug An Indianapolis
widow has written a letter 10 Com
missioner OF immigration Williams re-
questing that she be placed on file at
Ellis Island for q desirable husband
The widow. whose name will be given
to any unattached male person, who
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BILLY PAPKE BOOKED FOR
TWENTY-ROUNO BOUT.

New Orleans, Aug. 6.-Billy Papke
will take part in scheduled twenty
round bout here within the next few
weeks, according TO announcement
made today by the West Side Athletic
club. He has agreed TO meet the win
ner of the Hugo Kelly-FTank Claus
bout in September
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TWO TRAlNMEN KILLED WHEN
LOCOMOTIVE is OeRAlltO

Memphis, Tenn, Aug. Ed {;
Nelson. switching foreman, and WIN
Acklen, fireman, were killed and sew
eral trainmen were injured whe1 ~
comotive was derailed and fell Owe,
an embanlSment near Memphis cary
this morning