The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-04-03
By William Atherton Du Pu,

That night the offending Italian WAS
found dead in his store, with q score
of knife thrusts in his breast, very like
those received by the victim of the
barrel murder. The direct evidence was
again lacking upon which TO convict tho
the country took this stabbing as
they had the barrel murder, as warn
ing not to defy the authority Of the big
chief.
The next crime Of which the MorreIlo
gang was suspected was the murder in
Italy, of Lieut.. Petrocino, the man
Of all the sleuths of the New York
police force whom the gang most
feared. There has never been any adj.
mlSslble evidence 10 show that Nor
relic lad any connection with this
crime. II was shown at the time how.
ever, that the business Of Petrocino in
Italy WINS to investigate the past OF the
members Of this gang, Such evidence
was beng uncarthed as that which
showed that Lupo, The Wolf, had fled
Italy because of murder which he
had committed, 1t was also known that
members of the Morrello gang were
IN the vicinity of Palermo when the
murder was committed
Beginning Of the End.
Then begins the final chapter of the
operations of the gang. the chapter in
which, because Of the courage of a
desplsed supposed weaklinp known
among his fellows as The Lamb, the
men who had spread terror throughout
the nation were brought finally TO a
felon s cell
About year ago counterfeit money
began to appear in New York. Phila.
de- lphia. Buffalo. Cincinnati and other
cities. II was ali of the same kind and
all handled by Italians. On the face OF
it there was evidently well.orpanized
gang spreading this false money broad.
cast, So efficient had the secret ser.
vice drag, built no by that most efficient
operative in charge, w. J. Flynn, be.
come, that 1t succeeded in gathering in
fourteen OF the men who were passing
the money, and convictin9 them But
the men at the head of the scheme were
still hard to reach. This difficulty Law
largely IN the fact that so intimidated
were all OF their countrymcn who as.
soclatcd with them that they would on
TO prison in silence rather than disclose
the source of the bad money. for ia On
this latter meant death
But finally the man was secured who
had the direct evidence and who was
willing to give it, This individual was
Antonio Comlto, tho lamb. Comito
had long been the unwilling tool OF
,'i' E"ii lIN ueu DGGn so Ilnlu and
inoffensivo that the villainous crew re.
garded him as putty in their hands
Had they not tanned the proud spirits
of many OF their courageous and nat.
urally upright countrymeu1 Why
should they fear this spiritless weak.
llng2 Yet Comlto was The instrument
which sent the proud dictator and prac.
tlcally all his intimates to the peni.
tentiary.
Tells Story in Court.
Comlto told his own story on the
witness stand at the present session of
the federal court. The eight outlaws
most dreaded among their countrymen
of all those that the Italian quarter
had ever known. sat in the prisoner s
box and the lamb turned his head away
while he testified, for he had not the
courage TO face them. He said that he
knew that he was to be killed for what
he was doing, but that il were better
TO die than to lives so miserably. He
but awaited the vengeance which was
TO be meted out TO him.
While the trial progressed the fed.
eral building became filed almost TO
bursting with low -browed. ill-kept, dan
gerous looking Italians. The authorities
became alarmed and secret service men
and deputy marshals were brought into
the building until 1T fairly brlstled