Arizona republican., 1913-07-27
THE CRIME CO.
 INCORPORATED
It Seems Now That Italian Swindlers Had Strong Organization to Promote Fraud-Richey Unearths a Humble NameSake

a Humble NameSake
 Yesterdays developments in the two months campaign against the San Francisco swindling gang by Assistant United States Attorney o. T. Richey. resulted only in the uncovering of more definite relations between the leaders
 and the underlings-the brains and the
 feet of the scheme. There occurred a
 encouragement of personalities, in this
 exceedingly complicated tangle of iden-
 titles, that left one individual entirely out of it, and changed the others About so as to make the cast of characters almost unrecognizable. Later informa-
 ton from Post Office Inspector Frank O'COnneIl of San Francisco makes it apparent that the syndicate of crooks is more completely organized and more far reaching than was at first imagined. It seems, that beside those already inn ] plicated in the deal, an Italian hotel
 the Bimbo, an Italian saloon and other resorts are meeting places of a large band of frauds. numbering not only men but women.
 Maria Bressa" turns out to be an entirely fictitious person, probably be- ing named from a hotel register cor suption of the name ,Issaco, Mario Crosse, which is the true name of the man who represented himself as Will
 liam M. Collins and later as Frank Scott. "Senah Oury'' is the mistaken use made of the name, Sarah Oury, the two being so nearly identical that the difference was not noticed Louis F'azio, according to Dominica Ricci, bartender at one of the resorts, who was questioned by the police is the man who represented himself as "Se- nah Oury" before Notary Public M. B. Brown, there executing the forged deed. It is a striking commentary on the ease with which sWindles can be ac- cOmplished, thai the notary did not see the improbability of a man of Italian type sign a name like Oury. Thus the personality of the fictitious owner of the property was changed from that of a woman to that of a man, and still the fraud continued unhalted.
 Louis SchaiffinO is the name of the other forger, and probably the one who wrote the names Oury. He is the one who stood part of a five year 'forg- cry sentence and is now out on parole. O'COnnell believes him to be the real leader. As soon as the forgers found out they were being sought by the po- lice, they adopted all sorts of tactics to throw dust in the eyes of their pur- suers. Having heard by that circuit ous route which is pursued by informa- tion through the police, that Bressa was being hunted, Schaiffino and Fazio began playing uD the part the ina gin- ary one had in the negotiations. So to T1 of the crimes
 strange feature of the business is that the name of the bartender, who was frightened into giving up valu- able information is pronounced exactly like that of the man who directed the pursuit. One is 'Ricci' the other 'rRichey."
 Writing of the progress of the hunt O'Connen details some interesting facts about the pursuit of Italian criminals in a large city. owing to the pecu- liar system of feprisal, which the Ital- ians use so much, it has been prac- tically impossible to get accurate in- formation from any of the suspects we have questioned. The fear of a knife in the back seems to darken the intel lect of the Italian criminal to a re- markable degreee. You probably not iced that the first few letters from Collins to you were badly written and worse as to spelling. Schaiffino wrote those letters. At last being disturbed by your dilatory tactics. he was forced to abandon his unintelligent pose and write you two letters in good English in order to make his meaning clear.
 F'azio is the man who executed the deed before Notary Public M. B. Brown and who deposited it with the Securi- ties Bank and Trust company together
 with some money to cover the com
 mission. He wrote the letters signed by the name, Oury. Both Schaiffino and Fazio are now under cover in the depths of the Italian quarter, and shelt- cred behind that scarcely to be pene-
 trated screen of Italian criminal rela- tionship. which flinders pursuit in
 nearly every case we have.
 0'Connell compliments Richey on the clever manipulating, which finally | made it necessary for one of the con spirators to be where he could direct
 the police to a capture
 Richey is called to San Francisco Monday night to appear as witness in the preliminary hearing of Crosse. He
 has asked for a continuance of the case until August II on account of the con dition of Mrs. Richey and her new born | child. It is probable the continuance will be granted.
 The smooth scheme. which is sue cessful would have resulted in the fraudulant sale of nearly $50,000 worth | of Phoenix real estate was manipulated | by three men. Of course others were connected with the syndicate, but in minor capacities. Schafffno seems now | to be the head of the company He is | the arch criminal. His hand forged the | names to the deeds and other papers 1 necessary to the working of the fraud F'azio was the first go- between, the ] man who collected the mail at the var
 ious resorts to which he had git ad-