Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-28
TRAIL OF MURDER GANG
LEADS TO PHILADELPHIA
Elopement of Gunman With New
York Girl Brings About
Expose
ARRESTED AT RENO, NEV
Killings and Admits His
Part in Six

Philadelphia indirectly was responsible
for the wholesale exposure Of the murder
syndicate" i'm New York which is said by
the police to have claimed at least twenty
three victims.
The revelations have been termed the
most amazing in the history Of crime In
New York city The undong Of Ralph
Daniello, who made the exposure, was the
result Of his elopment to Philadelphia with
a sixteen-yearold grl The girls mother
reported paniello to the police as muir
derer He was arrested only recently in
Reno. New. Ten others who have been I'M
plicated were arrested In New YORK yes
terday.
Daniello, the police say. has confessed
to participating in no fewer than six muir
ders and to having an intimate knowlede" Of
at least seventeen others All had been
cassed by the New York police as un-
solved mysteries
The men Daniell0 says he and his assist
ants--members Of the Neapolitan gang
killed follows:
Gesualo Galucci and his son Luca shot
to death May II, 1915.
Netice Locallo, killed May 81. 1918.
Matteo Leone. killed September 9, 1918.
Louis pumarco, killed May I. 1916,
Giuseppe de Marco, killed January 20,
1915
Michael Averno, July %, 1916.
Nicholas Mare'lp and tharleS nhlH'h'
September .. 1915.
Giuseppe Nerazzano, october 6. 1915.
Salvatore de Marco. october 10, 1916.
George Esposito, November .. 1916.
Gaetano del Guadio. November 30, 1915.
Tony Liotti, January %, 1917.
Giuseppe Chiarclo, February 5, 1917.
Joseph Mazaro March 13, 1917.
Philadelphia police have started an IN
vegtigation in this city as the result or
tha
of the murders had been committed in TINS
city but Detective Ben Christy, of New
York who talked with Daniello after his
arrest did not remember Philadelphia be-
ing mentioned in the confession
LOOP Up UNSOLvED MURDERS
Detective Christy's statement was made
al city Hall today. He came to Ihladel-
phia from New York to get Frank Burrows.
who is wanted in New York on the charge
Of killing Policeman Morgan Burrows wa
arrested last week at Hog Island
Detective Callahan sid New York au-
thori-es had asked the Philadelphia De
tective Bureau to look up their list of un-
solved murders in the expectation that
Dsniello might he able TO clear them
Daniello is known as Ralph the Barber -
He is said to nave belonged 10 the gang OF
murder bosses" and gambling kings"
which thrived on crimes committed in
Italian sections in New York.
The revelation was due to a woman, Mrs
Theresa Nalvo. whose young daughter
oloped to Philadelphia with Ralph the
barber" last year AS the latter already
has wife and four children living in Italy.
he was arrested in this city on an abduction
charge.
Both he and Amelia the girl in the case,
denied that they had been married She
said she had been married here to another
Italian named Damgo, who resembles
Damello.
As result Damigo was arrested and
convicted on the abduction charge, Then
Ralph the bartender" and the girl elOped
all over again The two were traced to
Reno. New, where Danieilo was arrested
recently after Mrs Valo, angered at the
treatment her daughter had received. APP
pealed to the police. She informed them
that Danielo was "A murderer and that
he had boasted of taking part in several
murders
INDICTED FOR MURDER
The girl also was arrested in Reno Both
were cxtradited and brought to New York
ON perjury charges in connection with the
testimony against Damigo. Daniello since
has been indicted for murder in the second
degree II was while awaiting trial that
he decided to "squeal"
The confession was sensational in the
extreme. The prisoner told of three bands
Of Italian criminals and gamblers operating
in New York and Brooklyn which for the
last ten years have lived by evying tribute
and eXaCing vengeance in the Italian sec
tons, The bands even at times fought
each other.
Death warrants against offenders ,f their
criminal code were signed time and again
by the gang bosses. NO man was safe,
Daniello said
often victim would he executed that
is, murdered. by man who posed his
hest friend The gambling was carried on
in the rear of small stores. Those who
would attempt to buck up against the ostah-
! shed syndicate would be done away with
Shooting was the usual procedure. Some
times the stiletto would be used The
bodies of the victims wou,d be done away
with in true Italian vendetta style.
In at least one case the body of victim
was placed on the railroad tracks at night
to be manged beyond recognition by a
train.
Daniello is a small man Of swarthy cont
pleNion. He has an eight-inch knife scar
on one cheek His story is being verified
by the police, lie 'squeaed," partly through
fear. it was said, and also in vengeance
against the gangs which seemingly had
deserted him and refused mere financial
assistance lie is thirty-one years old