Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-04-18

NEW YORK, April 15.-Keeping pace
with the high cost of living, the high
cost of killing has begun to soar!
New Workers purposing the purchase
of murder find ie 400 per cent more ex-
pensive today than three years ago!
These are revelations outstanding
from testimony in the first phase of
the Baff murder case here, a cast more
sensational in it's showing up Of muir
der by contract than was the Becker
case. although it has attracted hardly
a tenth of the public interest aroused
by the police lieutenant's trial.
Exactly $4,000 is what it cost sup
posedly respectable business men to
buy the assassination, about a year
ago, of their business rival, Barnet
Baff, wealthy poultry dealer, whose
operations were imperiling their prof
its.
Those sceptics who have thought the
professional gunman of Gotham myth
exploited for the sake of the movies,
have seen their mistake during the
trial of Giuseppe Arichiello, charged
with firing the shot that killed Baff.
Carmine oil Paola, called the college
boy gunman." testified against Ari-
chiello and revealed the method by
which a person may contract for the
killing of another without danger to
himself.
In the Baff case, Ippolito Greco,
known as the proprietor of the noto-
rious murder stable about which
have clustered 13 assassinations in the
last four years, was charged with be-
ing the go-between with whom higher
ups arranged for killings.
STAFF OF GANGSTERS
Greco according to testimony, had
a regular staff of gangsters, staged
the Baff shooting, and kept $1,000 for
his services, three 'lookouts" got $500
each, one gunman $3.50 and Archiello
500. Frank Ferrara, it was testified.
was chauffeur of the murder car and
received $3.50. Then there was hush"
money and incidentals.
These are the latest quoted prices
for a first-class job of murder.
For cheaper job the police have just
called attention to the rates quoted
by man, who they say. offered two
men S45 for their assistance in the
beating up Of a railroad Waterman,
and bonus of S25 for aid in stabbing
him.
But as this job was badly botched,
the Baff range of prices stands as the
rate for high class murder in which
the purchasers stand a good chance of
escaping detection.
HIS MURDER STABLE
Grecos murder stable" is the most
CHASTITY bit of scenery in the Baff case.
Police say it was owned by Mrs. Pas
quarelli Spinelli, called "the Hetty
Green of Little Italy," whose pretty
daughter was charged with killing the
head of the Frank Monaco gang after
an attempt to blackmail her. The girl
fled to Italy, but was strangely MUIR
dered there. Then the mother was
killed at the door of the stable Two
members of the Greco gang were slain
there on suspicion of treachery and
finally Greco himself was killed within
its dingy walls
Meantime the New York police have
waged such relentless war on the gangs
that the price of a plain or fancy MUIR
der has scared from $1,000 to $4,000,
but il is still possible to arrange with
a regular constituted murder agent for
men, according to fixed scale of
prices!
LIST OF ASSASSINATED.
The list of Is persons assassinated at
the murder stable" No. 1874 East 1OSth
street, in the past four years.
% October %, 1911-Frank Chick"
Monaco, stabbed to death by Nellie Lee
mere, daughter of Mrs. Pasquerella Spi-
nelli
| W 90 IJlE-GluSeppl Ste1-
fano shot and killed.
| go March 80, 1912-Mrs. Pasquarella
Spinelli, known as the "Hetty Green of
Little Italy" and owner of murder sta
| BILE" shot there.
ca April 9. 1912-Frank Bonanno
murdered.
90 Sept. 2. 1912-Antonio Zarraca,
known as Young Sharkey." pugilst, shot
and killed.
co. September 3, 1912-Giuseppi joe
ko. saloonkeeper and part owner of sta
bic, shot and killed.
! CD December 16, 1912-Anielo Pris-
co, known as ''Zoppo." or 1.-The Gimp"
shot and killed while holding up Giosue
Gallucci, The Boss" part owner of sta
BILE.
! (S) April IS, I914-Luigi Lazzazaro,
owner of stable after death of Mrs. Spi-
lnelli. stabbed in back and killed.
/ 90 May %, 1914-Charles Lo Monte,
Part owner of stable. shot and killed
4 (10) May s 1915--Carmino Mollica,
killed in front of stable.
| OD May is, 1915-Giosue Gallucci
''Fhe Boss" shot and killed together
with his son. Lucca, (No. 12).
G3) October Z, 1915-Paolo Greco
stables new owner, shot nine times.