The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-10-05
CATCH A
BOMB CHIEF?
New York Police Get Man With
Explosives
THINK HIM HEAD OF GANG
Has Been Arrested Several Times Be-
fore-Some of His Comrades
Have Been Sent to
Jail.
THINK HIM HEAD OF GANG

New York, Oct, Detectives Miccelli
and Cavone of the Italian bureau at
police headquarters led slender, smooth
shaven young Italian into headquarters
Tuesday night, The man dropped on his
knees on the floor, raised his clasped
hands above his head in an attitude of
supplication, and pleaded with the de-
tectives to let him 60.
The detectives displayed two cylindr-
cal objects about six inches long wrapped
in brown cloth, and each equipped with
a fuse two feet or more in length, to
Lieutenant Melon. At the mention Of
bombs and the exhibition of the two
which the detectives say we're taken
from his pockets, the man redoubled
his cries He answered the Lieutenant
questions, saying that he was Angelo Gu.
chira, twenty-five years old, and lived
at ia Second avenue.
According to Miccelli and Cavone. the
capture Is an important one. Cuchira
is the third man whom they have ar
rested within two weeks on the charge
that he had bombs in his possession.
But the others, they, say, were subordi-
mates. Cuchira, the detectives say, is
the master criminal.
According TO the detectives who. since
Petrosinos death have devoted them
selves exclusively 10 the determination
Of the black hand in this city, there
are three bomb throwing gangs, and only
three, which have been active here sor
months. These, they say, have divided
the East side, where most Of the ItaI-
ian population OF the city is centred,
into three divisions, alloting to each
gang one Of these sections Roughly,
they extend from the lower city to
Fourteenth street, from there to the
lower confines of Harlem's Little Italy.
while the third division includes this
section and the Bronx 10 the north. Gu
chira. they say, has been the leader
and brains Of the second division ever
since his arrival in this city three years
ago.
His capture Tuesday night resulted
from the leaders efforts to maintain
discipline in his gang.
Cuchira has a long black trail OF ar
rests and eyasions of the law behind
him. On April II, 1900, he was ar
rested by the same detectives that
caught him Tuesday night, charged
with attempting to brighten money out
Of fellow countryman. He was held
for trial but escaped punishment because
of a defect in the papers. In 1908 Gu
chira was arrested with two other Ital-
ians charged with the murder Of Charles
Rosano in Scranton. He was discharged
for lack Of evidence. but the Scranton
police asked the police here to watch
him and the two others, who also were
freed. Shortly after, Cuchira's two com
panions were found guilty Of the muir.
der of Giro Bivone Of SIP First ave
nue. and are now serving time for it.
Cuehira was not arrested then.
The police think their prisoner was
mixed up with a gang that attempted
to get money from Gaetano Sferazza,
a grocer Of 307 East Forty-ffth street.
Three members Of that gang We're caught
by Detectives Miccelli and Cayone, who
went one night last May out on the
Willis avenue bridge disguised az la
borers and grabbed the men as they
approached their victim. One of the
prisoners caught then, Salvatore Ro-
mano, was found guilty Of extortion
in general sessions last week and got
a minimum sentence Of three years.
The court advised the grocer to get
a revolver and use it if he had to.