The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-02-25
lGAACI0 LUP0 The
VOL, GETS 80 YEARS
Leader Of the Black Hand Gang
and Counterfiter.
NE WAS 4 FOE or JOSEPH PETROsiNl

Lupo Believed To Have Caused
Death OF The Famous Italian De-
tectiye Who Was Assassinated--
Prisoners And Women Faint In
Court.
New York Especially The eight
siciIians Ignacio Lupe. the wolf"
Guiseppi Morello. Antonio Cecala,
Nicola Sylvester. Yincenzo Giglia.
Salvatore Gina, Guiseppi Callichio
and Guisseppi Palermo-who have
been. on trial for counterfeiting be-
fore Judge Ray, in the United
States Court for nearly four weeks,
were found guilty on all six counts
In the indictment and sentenced to
serve record terms in the federal
prison at Atlanta, Ga. Lupo and Mo-
relic, who are regarded not only as
the principal leaders in Black Hand
operations and in counterfe:ting in
this country, as we'll as the most
desperate criminals among the Ital-
Sians here, respectively These are
the severest sentences ever imposed
for counterfeiting The maximum
penalty for each count of the indict-
ment is Is years and a fine of $780,
0O0 Lupo is said to have been the
man responsible for the death of
Lieut.. Joseph Petrosini.
In passing sentence, Judge Ray
took only the first and second counts,
which charge the making Of the two
and five-dollar notes, suspending
sentence on the remaining four
counts. The eight sentences Of inn
prisonment figure to a total of $50
years and the fines aggregate $500.
The first of the convicted men
called to the bar was Guiseppi Gal
lichio. Gallichio is an elderly man.
and as the sentence of IL years in
prison and fine of $500 was an
nounced he broke down and wept
Historically, Morello' was then CALI
ed to the bar for sentence. When
the words pronouncing sentence of
20 years fell from Judge Rays lips
Morello doubled up in heap and
tainted. Nicola Sylvestre, who is
only a boy and acted as messenger
for the counterfeiting gang, was next
sentenced to serve Is, years and pay
fne Of $1,000
When Lupo was summoned for
sentence he walked boldly to the
bar. He kept a stir upper lip until
his counsel began his strong plea
for mercy for him, when he sud-
denly broke down and wept long and
bitterly. Judge Ray remarked that
he believed that the verdict of the
jury was perfectly just. and in re-
gard to his testimony on the witness
stand that he killed Salvatore Moril-
10 in Palermo in self-defense he
pronounced sentence on himself
when he fed the country. When
Judge Ray finally pronounced SEN
tence, 80 years in the federal prison
at Atlanta, Lupo took the sentence
IN absolute silence.
Cecala, Gina, CYCLIC and Palermo
took. their sentences cody. The
first three got Is years each and
lines of $1,000 each and Palermo
got 1S years and a fine of $1,000.
The sentences are the heaviest ever
Imposed on counterfeiters.
When the sentences were being
pronounced only newspaper men,
Secret Service agents and the as
slstants from the district attorneys
once were permitted in the court
ROOM
The men operated a plant" for
the making Of bad SIS and Sc bills
at Highland, N. Y. They TUNED
out the money in a, farmhouse to
which they had lured Antonio Com
10, 9 printer, who was held at the
threat of death and obliged to print
the spurious bills.
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A BOYS MAD PRANK.