The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-30
IN MURDER GANG
italian Tells of 23 Killings in
Eastern Cities.
Story Shocks and Amazes
Criminal Hunters.
"SOUEALE1" FOR REVENGE
Ralph Danielle Wanted To Get
Pals, He Asserts.
Harlem Gambling King One OF
Many Victims.

New York. Nov. so.-Ralph Da-
nieue. alias Ralph the Barber. himself
recently brought from Reno to an
swer for the killing of Brooklyn
bow. today confessed a Knowledge Of
IS murders that had been committed
in New York City, Long Island Ciuy'
Yonkers and Philadelphia
His confession was made before
District Attorney Swami Of this city
Assistant District Attorney Renaud'
and Assistant District Attorney war
tusse of Brooklyn. The story ne ltolo
was logical unhurried and contained
revelations that caused Amusement
He gave explanations o. murders ina
had puzzled the police department OF
New York for years.
Nothing Ioath. he repeated his Story
before the New York county
Jury. Acting Immediately upon start
ling facts he revealed. Detectives
Dfmartino, PuccinanO ard GratlLlo'
who had brought Danieue from Ne
vada, were sent out to round up Some
Of the men he named. WithiP a rev
hours the detectives returned Win
Giro and Vincent Morelli of the Har-
lem Italian neighborhoOd, and Mich
oIas ARA OF Little Italy. a nephe~
of Lupo the Wolf, who IS serving AZ
year sentence in the Atlanta penn
tentiarv for counterfeiting- The men
were arraigned and held in S10,OOO
bail each pending an Investigation Dy
the grand jury District Attorney
Swami said that should anyone oIIer 70
give bond for the men, he would nave
them indicted for murder IN the LIrsl
degree at once.
DanieIK~ .----~.i Revenge.
Danfelle declared himself glad to
tell all he knew He had waited long
for a chance at revenge. He described
how he had been member OF a gang
in Brooklyn known as the NeapoItans-
This organization was connected Win
a similar ore in Manhattan known as
the SiciIians. Between the two a sys-
tenn of gambling places was controlled
in both the bOroughs. No one dared
incur the enmity of the padrones of
these dens. It means death Twenty
three men who had had the temerity
to do so died.
Guiseuo Gallucci the gambling
king of Harlem" was murdered by
the politan-Sicilian organization
Ralph the Barber not only affirmed
this. but gave the attentive district
attorneys intimate facts of the case
that has gone down in police annals
as an uusolved mystery
Joe Chuck, another Harlem gamb
lers Whnshade been found dead in Xon-
kers. was the victim of the Sicilians
and Neapolitans. He had been lured
away by friends in an automobile.
Danielle told his listeners why,
other less famous gambling muir
ders that Ralph the Barber had at his
fingers tips were those of Guiseppi
and Salvatore De Marco and Charles
Lombard Salvatore had never re
turned from Long Island City where
he had gone to avenge the death of
his brother. Guiseppi.
He Wrote to Police.
from beginning 70 end Danielle's
last words were an explanation of the
confession The men who had COM
mitted the murders had been his
friends He now hated them.
When he reached Reno, after leav-
ing New York, he had written them,
telling of his wife sick in Italy He
begged that they send him a little
money for her He got no answer.
From that moment he had deter
ined to ger these men as he had
known them to get" others. Then
he wrote letters to the police of New
York. telling them about the crimes
he knew. The police responded by
coming and getting him
He declares himself willing to dc
everything in his power to bring
those men to justice. BY justice he
means a realization of revenge BY
his own word he knows no other form
of justice.
DtSllACL <AltpEneN swami revealed
only part Of the facts that DanieIIe
had given him. He refused to tell ALL
he said. in the fear that some of the
criminals he wishes to gather in might
flee He would say nothing of the
Philadelphia murders made known to
him by DanielIe
Ralph DanielIe is a Sicilian, 81 years
old. and has been a gang fighter
according to his own statement
nearly every one Of the 10 years he
has been in the, United States