New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-22
GrazianO and De VizeO
Two of Most Dangerous
Men in City, Police Say.
MUNICIPAL BUILDING
THEIR GOAL, is BELIEF
Both Have Bad ReCOrds-De-
partmeut Psychologist Ex-
amines Them.

Designated BY the police ms two OF
the most dangerous men caught in New
York in years. Michael Grasiano and
Leonard De Nizeo. arrested Thursday
light for an apparent attempt TO blow
up the Municipal Building. were held
Yesterday in the Tombs Court IN $50
600 bail each. Detective Barnitz of
the bomb squad asked that bail be
twice that amount.
The belief OF the police that the men
designed to wreck the Municipal Build
ing was not shaken. A long gr,'ling
resulted Enthusiastically, although 1t
is believed that some information was
obtained which may lead TO bomb
plot in Chinatown.
A search OF De Vizeo's room ut 81
Eldridee Street, which he left Thurs
day evening with n suit case containing
the bomb. brought to light quantity
OF material for bomb making. Z. bottle
containing benz.ne and bundle OF
correspondence In Italian. No anarch-
!stic literature was discovered but
detectives who have been failing the
pair since December. found Grassland
in attendance at many open air anarch-
istic meetings. He made no speeches
nor did he seem to be identified with
any organization. To the police he
and De Vizco confessed nothing that
would show whether their purpose In
manufacturing bombs was for black
nail, intimidation or the destruction Of
property by way Of anarchist propa-
ganda.
Both men have been arrested several
times for pocketpicking or swindling
immigrants. Grasiano. who is also
know a. Michael Londrone. was ar
rested July 10 last year at Jersey City
az n pick pocket. He was discharged
and WAS again arrested in Boston on
Christmas Eve on similar charge,
which was dismissed. He came to
New York then, the police say. and
enlisted with De Nizeo in making in
fernal machines Earlier last year he
was arrested IN New York. charged
with disorderly conduct and served six
months on Blackwell's Island.
De Vizeo. also known at Police Head
quarters as Devigio DeveZO, was Civ
en- six months in the workhouse on Feb
ruary II. 1903, on vagrancy charge.
lie was arrested for disorderly con
duct in 1907 and again in September,
1913. receiving sentence OF sixteen
days for the latter offence. On April
%, 1914. he received three months
term for disorderly conduct. lie was
arrested as q tickpocke' in Phi.adel-
phia last January and again in Jersey
City on n like charge IN July Of last
year. He was discharged in both in
stances.
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literature that came into possession
of the police in former raids showed
that Thursday. the day on which it Is
believed the Italians intended planting
the bomb under the Municipal Build
ing, was the eighty-siXth anniversary
Of the uprising of Neapal.
Or. Louis L. Bisch. the police de-
partment psychologist had his first OPP
portunity yesterday TO examine bomb
planters. De Vizeo was found to be
apparently normal. although Of a not
unusually high grade Of intelligence.
Grassland was a more interesting study.
"lle is constitutiOnally inferior and
emotional.y inadequate" declared Dr..
Bisch. "He is not sufficiently mentally
deficient 70 be classed as an imbecile
or an idiot. His il an intelligence
high in criminal possibilities, but
found him to be without capacity 20
realize the amount of harm his acts
might cause. Il did not occur 10 him
that setting of bomb such as was
found in his possession might kill or
MAIN score OF innocent people, yet
he admitted that it was possible when
that was suggested to him. He Is with
out mag nation"
Dr. Bisch added that Grassland was
the first Of certain criminal type 10
come under his observation since his
establishment at Police Headquarters.
"Such persons are safest in jail" he
declared at is the hope Of this bu-
Ieau TO show, when we have gathered
sufficient statistics, that place is
needed for the confinement Of such
criminals. They are not admissible 70
the psyccpathic wards Of hospitals. but
they constitute public menace unless
they are confined"
The bomb maker showed physical
characteristics. the police psychologist
declared. which answered to the defects
IN that class Of criminals noted in the
/ Lombrosian theory. Grasiano's ears
he said, were uneyenly placed on his
head, his tongue was corrugated. and
he showed other signs Of inferiority