The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1920-10-28
DETROIT LAwLEss CITY.
Italians Murder in Broad Daylight
Those Who Oppose Them.

Italians Murder in Broad Daylight
Those Who Oppose Them.
A limousine with drawn curtains
speeds at a busy corner at a busy
corner at noon. A volley of steel ball
bearings is sprayed from sawed OF
shot guns. The automobile circles
the block returning SO that the as
sassins may determine that their
work is well done, and then makes
OF before the police arrive.
1nis is the latest phase of the De-
troit Sicilian vendetta, beside which
the reuds Of Brenthitt county, Ken
trcky, famed in story and movie
are amateurIsh and comparatively
bloouIess misunderstanding.
The Detroit murder toll is as great
in one year as Breathitt county
counted IN a generation,' declares
Judge Arthur +. Gordan. Sicily it
seiI-the home of the Mala Vita, OF
Mana which ante-dates government
tle,e still considers itself superior to
go,ernrnenI-cannot equal the record
OF Detroit and the Ford cities ada
cent 10 1t.
New Orleans Remedy.
New Orleans thirty years ago had
q similar situation and applied a
characteristic southern remedy. Re-
suit: Eleven Sicilians, whose ac-
Qpitlal in spite Of conclusive evil
aence outraged public feeling, were
iypching, some shot, others hung, in
the parish Jail. Rex Beach has writ
len a novel around it."
"Detroit's internacine carnival does
not constitute an equal Of the policy.
rney have not been so far fortunate
In catching any of the desperadoes
reo-hanaed, but through ten years
during which the feud has wrecked
100 lives, there have been numerous
arrests. Not only do the police know
who the murderers are in nine
tenths OF, the cases, but they know
VINO the next victim will be and "a
pretty good idea who will do the kill
ing.
so far this year there has been
!, twenty TOUR Observation-Disclosures
ny way or variety the decapitation OF
q woluan whoi aspired to be queen.
her husband and the men who sue
ceeded hlm preceded her by few
SeeAs. One policeman has been kill
seu lhis year. he belonged to The ltal-
lan squad.
.1nere was thirteen of u.s.. re-
MARKS Lieutenant Otto Hendrie, sig
'ni.lcantiy
seven Policemen Killed.
A couple OF years ago seven police
men were shot down within period
or about month, according TO In
fspector Fred Raymond, of the third
precinct, which includes little Italy.
inspector Raymond adds that more
sponceme nhage been slain in his pre-
cincI unan in all the rest of Detroit.
Two we're shot Saturday night, Oct.
End, and another Inspector Raymond
now especially charges his men to
project themselves.
Two years ago Judge Charles T..
Wilkins discharged a jury as unfit to
sit. They had acquitted Giovannia
lAngel Face TIRES of the murder OF
Peter Bucelleato, Judge, Wilkins, said.
For sometime this community has
been horrified = part Of it terroriz-
eu--- by the bandits, thugs and assas-
sins. murders have been committed
in broad daylight. Brave police Of
rieers have been shot down.
1.-The outcome of this case is such
as to encourage criminals to believe.
that, II II is only an Italian against
an italian, or ii it Is only police
man who is shot, there will be no
punishment"
but then Judge Wilkins is not al
together dlsinterested. He was shot,
the bullet hitting him in the arm, and
has house was bombed because he
sentenced a feudist to five years in
Jali.
Automatic Expiration.
LET them kill themselves off. That
will solve the problem by automatic
b expiration" says the euitor Of one
Delroit newspaper. But the Malta. of
the Sicilians is hydraheaded; it is not
close corporation like the Camorra
or lne Neapolltans. Az tast as one
fleaoer is killed other Gafia spring UP
and the bloodshed, blackmail and
Driganoage goes on. Rex Beach in
Tine Nep' declares:
after all, SIcilian character con-
stituIes La Malta. 1t is no sec, no cult,
no secret body or assassins, high
way-men and>robbers. 1t is a national
haired OF authority and Individual ex-
preston Of superiority TO law. :. d.
some day it may dominate American
cities as it does Sicily. II is an idea,
not an institution. Every man Of prop
erty contributes to 1t. knowing the
impotence or the law, peaceable citi-
zens snield criminals. They perjure
themselves to acQuit Mafioso rather
than TESTIFY against him ana thus in
cur the certainty or some fearful ven!
geance."
American law holds man innocent
until proven guilty and, according to
the Detroit police, justice is loath to
remove the blindfold even when the
evidence is reasonably complete: The
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