Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-17
b The FAMOUS ITALIAN "BLECk HANDY ORGANIZATION a rYTIp
No Deep-D, ed B>dy of Italians, Say Prominent Men
to Conduct Organized Black
mail and Murder
mail and Murder

cidental more than the result of the work
Ilngs of any criminal organization In
grave crimes two or three of these indie
pendent Italian deSperadoes might band
Itogether, but not because they are mem
DerS or any criminal organization but be-
cause this is common practice among
CRIMINALS of all kinds, Americans as we'll
as Italians.
mere are many Italian criminals in this
country. Prominent Italians admit this,
and they blame the federal government
| for permitting so many of them to enter.
In Italy there are two laws which prohibit
the mayor Of any city from issuing pass
! ports to criminals if they have committed
! crime which would make them liable to
ldisbarment in the United States by the
Immigration officials. No Italian, they
say, should be permitted to enter the
United States Until his penal certificate
has been examined Yet there is no ez-
animation OF the papers of immigrants of
ANY kind at Ellis Island. If he has COM
mitted TO crime in Italy the penal certf-
! ficate will be blank. If the certificate is
not blank the immigration authorities
should deport him at once to Italy.
| According to the federal laws, any per-
son may be deported who has been con-
victed of a felony or any other crime in
volving moral turpitude." The federal
SOkSl dS CT 1Ioc AiO pISNiSO SdbCSOAy
of crimes which in its opinion involve
moral turpitude." Conscious of this de-
feet in the immigration laws of the United
States, the italian government mas re
quested the federal government to specify
which crimes involve moral turpitude,
as the phrase is a vague one. In Turkey
an Armenian may be looked upon as
criminal; elsewhere he might be consid-
cred as some kind of hero.
Up to the present time the federal gov
eminent has given no answer to the
Italian government 1t is said in Wash
lington that the decision must be left en-
tirely to the judgment. of the immigra-
ton officers who examine the incoming
immigrant. 1.-THE Italian government does
It's best to prevent the departure of GRIM
inals for America, Mr. Castiglione, of the
Labor Information Office for Italians
said. There are a number of Italians who
leave Italy not from Italian ports but from
French and German ports. The Italian
government, of course, cannot reach
those, because it has no jurisdiction over
them. The Italian criminals in this coun-
try are to be found among the Italians
who come without passports-that is to
say, from non-Italian ports"
Prominent Italians in New York CITY
and elsewhere complain that every Euro
pean of dark complexion, unless he wears
Turkish fez when arrested, is put down
on the police Slotter as being an Italian.
and in this way the Italians are made re-
sponsible for crimes committed by other
nationalities. An anecdcte has been go
ing the rounds OF the Italian bankers in
New York city of how a we'll known
Italian merchant Of Hoboken, Mr.. Bian-
chetti by name, was pictured by an en-
terprising journalist as being one Of the
assassins involved in the murder of King
Humbert. This picture was copied in all
the papers throughout America; it event.
ually found its way into the Italian news
papers in this country, and 1t was then
copied by newspapers in Italy. Mr.. Bfan-
chetti, an honored and respected man.
soon lost all his friends and his business
decreased; he died within a year, his ac-
quaintances said, of a broken heart.