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

tall. Accomplishment. young man
who wagered his money regularly without
any apparent system as to his choice of
horses. When he made a bet he invaria
bly, passed up a hundred-dollar bill. His
wager might amount to s, and he re-
ceived the balance I'm change. By the
time these bad bills reached the banks
and the secret service men appeared a
some three thousand dollars to the good
on his brief stay.
Some weeks later the same young man
began the same sort of betting at Delmar.
St. Louis. The big bills attracted atten-
ton much quicker at Delmar and this
young man soon found himself under
arrest. In his pockets were found $500
in the bad money. He retained his COM
posture, however. and stated that he had
found this money on the street. Not only
had he found it, but he had advertised
his find. He showed the paper with the
advertisement in it.
Suspecting that the Providence man was
a clever crook who had arranged this de-
vice to clear himself in case of trouble
Chief Flynn sought substantiation for his
suspicious in New York. He read the
lost and found advertisements i'm all the
New York papers for the week preceding
the passing of counterfeit money at
Gravesend. Sure enough. he eventually
found the insertion of an advertisement
identical with that which appeared in the
st. Louis paper. He even succeeded in
getting the original copy for both of these
advertisements, and they proved to have
been written by the same hand. Even
tually this young Providence business
man was sent to the federal prison for a
long term of years.
Probably the greatest accomplishment
in the career of Chief Flynn and likewise
the greatest single service ever rendered
by the secret service agents of the gov
eminent was effected through connecting
some twenty-five desperate Italians with
the offense of cOunterfeiting, and rail-
reading them all to the federal prison
on cumulative sentences that will keep
them all there for periods ranging from
ten to thirty years. The most cunning
of all these Italian outlaws was one
whose place of business on East 9th
street. New York city, in the very heart
of Little Italy, is probably the point at
which more Black Hand extortions have
been planned than at any other pace i'm
America. The right hand of the band
was Lupo the Wolf. Lupo fed from
Italy because of murder he had COM
mitted in his native land. In America
he had been charged with murder on two
occasions. but had escaped conviction He
was suspected of almost all manner Of
crimes that is known in the underworld
of New York.
These two men were the center of a
C5o.i@o.ioH tHdt MOI ohiE hdue
itself felt in New York city, hut had
its ramifications as far west as Chicago
In addition to this Matchmaking these
Black anders pushed the queer in many
cities. The place of business on East
9th street was the point of supplies for
all this bad money. 1t had been manu-
featured at different places. but the plant
was finally run to earth up the Hudson
near the town of Highland. Chief Flynn
himself worked personally on the case
and made many of the arrests
Most spectacular of these was the
taking into custody of Vincenzc Gil
Clio and Salvador Gina. Chief Flynn
was in an Italian saloon which was