New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-16
Isna3lo Lopo. The Wolf

eff Lupo. Morello and their companions
are not liberated you will die like dog.
We have killed better men than you or
Smith or Flynn"
The letter was unsigned, but did not pre-
vent Judge Ray from imposing the maxi
mum sentence on "the Wolf and the Sc
verest sentences ever inflicted on counter
feiters on the rest of the gang.
'T know they have marked me- said
Chief Flynn Perhaps they'll kill me.
The hunter is sometimes slain. But I'm
taking all precautions. Only last Deem
Der two men who visited Lupo and his
companions at Atlanta left there with in
structions 10 assassinate me. Several times
have been warned that some Of the
gang would try to kidnap my three chill
dren. and as a result they never leave the
house alone, and II they go far from home.
there IS always some one watching over
them"
But the Secret Service men-and there
are some OF these whose names are never
known to the outside public, and who APP
pear on the government payrolls as men
known only by numbers-who have never
let up their vigilance on 1.-THE Wolf and
his band.
These men know that the gang has spent
at least $4,000 since their incarceration a
little over two years ago in an effort TO
get free. Where did they get the money?
From all parts of the world. From rela-
tives and others in the settlements of
Slcilians as far away as Tunis, Algiers
and Palermo. Sicily; from Liverpool, Eng
land, and from New York, Philadelphia,
Boston, New Orleans. st. Louis and Chi
cago. and from every other large city IN
America. The most OF this money is
given In fear, said Chief Flynn.
"Just how much money these fellows
have collected will probably never be
known" said Chief Flynn, but it is an
immense sum- They are going around TO
shopkeepers every day collecting Who
are the treasurers OF the fund? Several.
principally the compari, or godfathers of
some Of the prisoners, and in other in
stances their relatives or trusted friends. -
Before the end of the present month
Bourke Cochran, according to Chief Flynn,
will apply TO the United States Supreme
Court for a writ of certiorai in the case
OF Giuseppe Morello, Lupus chief lieu
tenant, who was sentenced to twenty-five
years Imprisonment This Is the first big
step In the bands efforts to undo the work
OF Chief Flynn and the United States
Courts.
A striking instance OF the still tremen-
dous power OF "The Wolf was pointed out
by Chief Flynn In the murder Of young
"Joe" Morello. the elghteen-year- STEP
son Of Lupo's chief aid. The boy had been
suspected of betraying the secrets Of 1.-THE
Wolf and he was killed four weeks ego in
Hath street. near Second avenue, In the
heart OF New York's uptown Sicilian colony.
With young Morello at the time were two
other youths, who were wounded. and who
have since died from the wounds.
And since the shooting of young Mo-
rello." said Chief Flynn, IL have been IN
formed by my agents that two other ItaI-
fans have been murdered who had been
marked for assassination by the Lupo-
Moreilo crowd. One OF them, Benny Tesla,
knew. But. OF course. We haven't been
able 70 ok the crimes definitely on any one,
but we know pretty positively why and by
whom they were slain"
Chief FLYNN has information showing
that the Lupo-Morsllo gang have their own