The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-03
TRACE MURDERS
TO CRIME RING
Traffic in Lives by q Band
Of Italians Barred in
New York.
AGENT TELLS POLICE
Confession Ends Attempts
Of Officers to Break
Up Gang.

New York.-A loud report. a muffied
cry. falling body, and the murderer,
his face lighted up with an evil grin
sinking away in the darkness.
The back room of coffee house, the
rafting of poker chips. the click Of
dice. the swarthy lookout. the chal-
lenge, the stealthy opening of the door,
andsthe entry of the man with the evil
grin.
Giosue Gallocci vacates his seat at
one OF the tables and joins the new
c0mer@out OF hearing of the others.
A whispered conversation, gesticula-
tons, the passing OF yellow back bill.
and smiles. Giosue resumes his seat
and the late arrival takes hand.
The Fate Of calioeei.
Down in Harlem's Little Italy" just
across the river from New York city.
this scene. with slight variations, was
enacted frequently during the life Of
Gallocci. the big boss" The district
attorney had traced numerous crimes
to the big Italian and his gang, but al
ways evidence was lacking.
Now. too late for the punishment OF
Gallocci, but in time to break up his
gang OF followers. who after the death
have continued their career of murder
and plumber, comes the testimony Of
Ralph Daniello. former agent Of the
"big boss
Daniello. who has been indicted for
murder and other crimes in New York
city and environs, recently laid bare.
in a written confession. the methods
employed by the gang, and helped to
clear up 20 murder mysteries.
Crime Syndicate.
1t develops that Gallocci employed
a large staff of men to collect graft
from gambling places in the colony
and to sell lottery tickets. That was
where men like Daniello figured. He
said the syndicate" paid single men
$1O a week and married men $40. In
addition. they were hired to murder
when instructed to do so.
Gallocci's regime was marked by a
long list of mysterious murders, many
OF them occurring in the Harlem "mur-
der stable" former headquarters for a
gang OF horse thieves. One of the
crimes laid at the big boss door was
the murder Of wealthy Italian woman
who owned the stable.
Gallocci ruled the Italian colony with
an iron hand for number of years,
but when, drunk with power, he tried
to reach out and gain control Of the
Brooklyn colony also. he incurred the
enmity Of rival gang. His end came
May Is. 1915. when two men walked
into his coffee shop and gambling room
and shot him down. His son also was
killed at the same time.
Successors Were Killed.
Ippolito Greco succeeded Gallocci as
boss of the colony. 1t became noised
around that Greco would furnish as
sassins to kill others than Italians. a
new departure, but he made enemies
and was shot nine times and killed on
the night OF October Z, 1915.
Six days later Thomas La Monte.
former bodyguard for Gallocci, was
shot down while walking with a girl.
With Greco dead La Monte was slated
to be the next leader of the district.
but was removed by the jealous Brook
lyn band.
Soon after Greco's death Gaetano
del Guadio took the reins, but was
killed while passing the notorious
murder stable November 80, 1915.
This crime resulted from the killing Of
Nicholas Morello and Eugene Nicholas
two months before.
TWO weeks before Gaudio's death
George opposite. who had been talk
ing too much" was killed in the muir
der stable" Then followed the murder
of Joe Chuck He had started out
to drive the Brooklyn band from Har
lem. when he was invited to take
ride In a motor car. Near Yonkers
he was shot ten times and his body
thrown on trolley track.
Murder by Wholesale.
The murders Of the three DE Marco
brothers followed. Joseph. the wealth
lest. and then owner of the murder
stable" having succeeded to GalIocci.s
leadership.
Daniello. the police say. has fur
nished enough evidence to convict a
number of Italians in Harlem on mur-
der charges.
II Is said pretty Italian girl Is i'm
plicated in the daring operations Of the
gang, information In the hands Of the
district attorney tending to show that
she murdered gangster. believed to
be an informer. by stabbing him sew
enteen times.
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