The sun., 1917-11-28
SAYS GAMBLING
RING KILLED %
Ralph Daniello Tells of Opera.
tiOns Of Padrones in
" Three Cities.
RIVALS DIFFERENTIATED
Declares Three Murder Squads
Were Maintained-Ten
Arrests Made.
RIVALS DIFFERENTIATED

Should tho spirits OF murdered men
return to plague their murderers. /,
would he pretty safe bet that
Ralph Daniello. 81 years old. had
an unpleasant time Of II last night In
his cell in the Raymond Street Jail
Brooklyn. For ne has told Of having par.
tictpated in six murders and Of having IN
intimate knowledge Of at least seventeen
others. But ~ a matter Of fact. Dani.
clio. alias Ralph the Narber. probably
slept we'll. He IL too old a hand at the
game Of murder to lose sleep over the
deod.
1t is tho living whom Daniello has tc
fear--the padrones Of the good game
saconet and their three score underlings
the cutthroats and sunmen who kill fol
trivial cause. or for no cause at all, act.
Ing merely on suspicion or blindly at the
behest OF the padroncs. and not tn.
twenty-three unfortunates whom DAM
clio In a confession yesterday numbered
among the slain.
The dead are dead" as Ralph the
Barber phraeed 1t with q shrug. but 4 h
butchers--ah! those that kill at a nod
they are very much alive And q looi
| OF something like concern crossed ths
Scared face that had shown no trace Of
concern IN telling Of wholesale murder
not even when the telling caused him &c
implicate himself both as principal and
accessory.
Ralph the Barber yesterday told hi,
! story 70 Assistant District Attorne,
Renaud Of Judge Swann's stan. Mr.
Warbasse Of the star Of District At.
| torney Lewis OF Kings county and De-
tectives d Martino. Pucciano and Grot.
tano. Closeted In little room Of the
homicide burssu on the fourth floor oi
the Criminal Courts Building Daniello
tofd esStaree feee~T who have Az lbat
controlled 6asnfiine, revenues from the
Italian game sAconet by numbering coin.
petitors.
Tells OF Three I;apss.
Tho gangs operate IN Brooklyn. Man.
haitian and Harlem. and are known az
the Navy street, or Brooklyn, gang the
downtown. or Mulberry street, gang
and the Harlem gang. They are con.
trolled by some eight or ten bosses, oil
padronee. and include some nfty OF
sixty gunmen and cutthroats. who dc
murder TO order, partly because they
are afraid OF being murdered them.
selves II they refuse and partly be.
cause they can live without work. II pre-.
cariously. by skilful use Of the gun OF
knife.
Daniello confessed, IL Is said, that he
was private In one OF the murder
squads ana has been TN at the killina
OF half a dozen men" whose only offence
consisted In ''acting suspiciously." in.
curing the distrust or d.spleasure ot
ore or another Of the padrones or ir
attempting to estab ablish zaconet places
OF their own. His estimate Of the tota
was at least twenty-three murders. per.
haps more-"it IN 80 easy to forget In
five or six years.
Not all the victims mentioned b,
Ralph the Barber we're identifed foI
| publication yesterday. the authorities
| taking the ground that premature pub
lication might defeat Justice. but the
names Of six were learned. They are:
Giusuello Galuci, known a. ths
gambling king Of Harlsm's Little italy
and his nineteen. .year-old son Lucca
shot to death in Lucca's coffee house a
l0sth street and First avenue in IN,
evening Of May II. 1918; Giuseppi d
! Marco and Charles LOMBARD. shot Il
| death in a room at 81 James street OF
July 25, 1916; Salvatore di Marco
brother Of Giuseppi. found with hi
throat cut under the Manhattan end o.
the Greensboro bridge on October 90
1916. and Giuseppi Nazarro (Jo,
Chuck shot through the head irf Yon
kers recently.
Other Arrests Expected.
AS a result Of the confession ten me
have been arrested and are now hold il
| -.
| OF $4,000 each. More than a dozen de
tectives are securing the city for other
implicated and District Attorney Swan
hopes that by using Dtniello's confes
zion as a fulcrum he will he able I
upset and destroy the gangs who In th
last eight or nine years have never hest
tated TO murder those who threatene
their interests.
Only three Of those under arrest wec'
named yesterday: Giro and Vincent Mo
relli. brothers. and Nicholas ARA, sal
TO be a nephew OF Lupo the Wolf. VIII
is now serving forty year sentenc
conviction OF counterfeiting. 1t Is al
legged that ARA is tho head Of a gam
bling ring In Harlem. All ten men no,
under arrest were committed to th
Tombs as material witnesses after ar
raignment before Judge Mott In Genera
/ Sessions.
The Importance Of the three me
whose names are mentioned. whether a
principals or witnesses. Is more tha
indicated. however, by Judge Swami
statement made late yesterday afternoo
that he would order them rearrested an
prefer charges against them Of murde
In tho first degree n by any chance the
succeeded In raising the bail demande
$4,000 each.
Claimed Exclusive Rights.
The authorities though Ioath 10 Civ
out the details Of Daniello's confession
sketched in the high lights. which shov
that the gambling rings Of the city, witt
possible ramihcations extending int
Yonkers and to Philadelphia, sought l.
control all gambling concessions by mur
der There was no intermediate ground
A man started . game In the back roor
OF mis- little coffee room. fruit store o
whatever the screen for the real enter