Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-09-07
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about through their knowledge of a
violent quarrel that had taken place
within the innermost circles of a des.
perate band OF counterfeiters. While
all had gone smoothly the murderers
n the victim Of the barrel" case
a been friends. The moment there
arose a sign Of trouble the first step
vas to seal forever the lips Of the
victim who knew and who was angry
and who might tell.
And In the Cardinelli vendetta the
solution, II It is ever found, will be
found by precisely the same methods.
There came a time about four years
ago when the Other seemed to grow
tired Of the ways in which the Car
dinellis were doing things. The others
evidently sided with the Other The
gang was broken up.
It was only a short time after that
a friend Of the Cardinellis, one they
had made since they came to this
country. received a Matchmaking let
ter from the Black Hand. The man
was sore troubled.
In his first moments Of ~apprehen-
sion he went to Giuseppe Cardinelli.
whom he trusted, and tcld him. Gu.
seppe needed but a single glance at
the Black Hand letter to know from
whom il came.
Straight to the Other went Giuseppe.
He told him the man he was trying
to, blackmail was a friend Of the Car
dinellis and that he must leave the
mar alone. The Other only smiled.
A week or so later Giuseppe receiv-
ed a Black Hand letter warning him
to mind his own business. That was
the beginning of the Cardinelli ven
delta.
Then came the first letter of warn.
ing. Giuseppe and his young wife
and baby lived at 241 Hamilton ave
nue.. Brooklyn. One day the mail man
brought a sealed. ~bedraggled looking
letter to the house. When Giuseppe
opened 1t he turned pale. and without
a word walked out of the house.
Only six words stared out at him
across the single page OF note paper
on which the letter was writtne. But
the words we're a message of death.
All that met the gaze Of the man
who vas already dead was this short
but terrible message.
"You VIII dle-at the window"
And Giuseppe Cardinelli did die.
though not at the window. 1t was less
than twenty-four hours after the let
ter came to his house that the Other
and two or three Of the others came
to his house. On their faces were
smiles. In their brown eyes wal no
sign of anger. They had come. said
the Other. that they might talk things
over.
Lurod TO His Death.
1T was not good that they should
be en2mies," said the Other. Each
knew TOO much of the others. Would
not Giuseppe come out Of the house.
take a little walk and talk things
over?"
Giuseppe did. He kissed his wife
and his baby and went out with the
men. An hour later the body Of him
who had been Giuseppe Cardinelli was
found on a bench In Corey Park,
Brooklyn. A sharp knife had all but
severed the head. an equally sharp
stiletto had found its way into a dozen
different places on the body.
The police conducted an energetic
search for the murderer or murderers
Of Giuseppe, but their efforts were
fruitless.
The Cardinellis were not inactive.
They did not need to guess who had
done the deed. They knew. The 9th
Or and the others. they we're the ones.
Giovanni, the uncle, was the most
active Of all the Cardinellis in his ct.
'orts to avenge the death Of his