Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-19

filled to the doors with the orim-
nal element when word was brought
him that Gina and Giglia had pro-
nounced his doom and that he was to
be killed unless he Immediately got OFF
the case. Flynn. holding to the theory
that no officer can be successful among
Italian criminals unless he makes them
afraid of him, Immediately resorted to
an extreme measure He leaped upon
box and covered the room with his two
pistols. He made every man in IL come
forward and lay his weapon upon the
bar. Then he called for the patrol
wagon and bundled every man who had
been armed off to the police station.
This was but the first of his extreme
attacks upon the theory of making tho
Italians afraid OF him. Knowing where
Gina and CYCLIC were to be found, he
went single handed to their apartment.
kicked in the door and covered the room
with his pistol. Although both men
We're i'm their rooms and armed to tho
teeth, they made no resistance and gave
a first-class imitation of two individuals
who were frightened almost to the point
of death. simultaneously We're raids
made by other members of the secret
service at different points and the drag
net resulted altogether i'm some twenty
five men who were convicted.
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One Italian chief had "A manned hand
and was rarely known to participate in
the actual outrages of the Black Handlers.
although the secret service men know OF
some fiendshly desperate acts of his and
believe that he was always the mind be-
hind the most spectacular crimes.
Lupo was the active outside man who
carried his mandates Because of his be-
ing seen more than the chief Lupo came
to be popularity regarded as the head OF
the Black Hand, but in reality lie was
only its outward evidence. That the
Black Hand had agents in all the large
cities and that the chief had authority
over all these is shown by a most spec
tacular performance of his I'm New Or
leans. where certain Italians opposed to
him had threatened to expose his meth
DDS of circulating counterfeit money.
The Italian Immediately went to New
Orleans in person. He was seen among
the Italians OF that city for three or four
days. Findly. one afternoon. i'm true ban
dit STYLE he appeared again on the streets
with a red bandanna handkerchief about
his head. This was his def to his local
enemies. That night the Italian who had
threatened exposure was found dead in
his store with score of knife thrusts in
his breast very like those received by the
victim Of the famous barrel murder" In
New York. The direct evidence was again
lacking upon which to convict the terrible
leader. Yet the Italians of all the coun-
try took this stabbing they had taken
the barrel murder as warning not to
defy the authority OF the big chief.
The murder in Italy of Lieut.. Petrosino
of the New York police.force is firmly be-
-lieved to have been due to the gang which
was put out of business when Uncle Sans
sleuths succeeded I'm convicting SO great
a number of its members of counterfeit
ing.
These and many others are among the
exploits of the new chief OF the secret
service, and il is because OF his handling
of them that he has been placed i'm that
position, which, of them all, is most
coveted by the man who gives over his
life to the detection and suppression OF
crime.
Copyright, 1913. by ". A. Du Puyl !