Marble Hill press., 1921-11-24
True
Detective Stories
THE DOUBLE CRIME


TT WAS In the late summer Of 100
that the New York police discovered
the body ~ man. evidently an
Italian, concealed IN harrel on the
East side Every mark that could
possibly supply clue 10 his idcntln
cntion had been removed even the
labels had been cllpT-d from his
clothes-and the manner IN which his
face had boen mutilaied rendered him
totally unrrcugniEahlr.
Hut, Just as the case was about 20
he entered upon the book ~ New
lutk's unsol,.d mysteries II was
clear.d up through coincidence 70
startling that no writer ~ dciectl,.
nctlon would have dared max. use
~ r.
On the uight ~ The murder. william
! Flynn. then chief ~ the Eastern
division NJ the United states secret
s"rN.cr, with headquarters Ia New
YORK, was working an on. Of the
numerous count"rfeiIiuc cases which
occur So frequently In the Italian 80
ton ~ ~ metropolis
Flynn himself Vss elected to trail
pair ~ Italians whom he had reason
e. believe we're WORKING for or with
the cHuuirrfriicrs The trail led 10
M Italian grnOry. where. from the
shadow ~ doorway across the
strrci. The government detective could
s"c into lighted room In the suspect
81 house. 4 fcW moments later q
covered wagon dr'W up In fruut -
the huus" man got cut. entered the
grucvfy uni made his NJ, into the
very rnum thar Flynn was watching.
The llgh' frum the lamp frii directly
upon hls fHer and the secret srryic-
Operative nraIlgs.i that this must by
nov addition fo 'le gang fot ~ was
certainly NJ urr hat BE- had s.-.n 30
fore Then N. curtains ~ the win
i"w Scrr dnwn. and Flyun shan.
fnu"1 h's chase or tho time t-ins
The next morning the mufd-rri
man was discovered ucariy half .
mile frun Tie plars shrrc Tiynn had
hidden himself the rlgh' hcfuyv u
UHs several DAYS later that the ot@ra.
tive Rad tlr official acrpunt - tie
Grim" and uHfcl that the hriy had
been found In sugar tSrr,I parity
allied uiit blood siHiu,-i saWdus' The
taf" NJ ih' muuicf coupled ~l'h the
us" = sugar harrct recalled 90 TIE
up"u'i,r.s mind TIE feet that - hai
'"rn watching A. Italian grrcrfJ %
"F about 'h" time that mo frfr .tcf
had tr"u Killed Merely g. satisfy
himself hat there vas 90 c,Han.ctiUa
between the crluteffel'-rs and the
murdered man. flynn peni 60 ths
mofgue snd eHamibet N. boty The
peculiar shag~ ~ TIE forehead. 'he
manner 90 which tho hsir .glAv~d rlt
above the prominent rars and tho
blood sia!HeI srrvn hat Which had
teen found IN tho haTrsl. told thc S,ory
beyond The shadow - q toGb, II
wAs tho stranger whom Flynn Rad
seen entering ne s,aFv shlch Re had
been watching
Feeling certain thst hcre uus sign
which Ipiute,i toHard the of~Tat.Ons
Of the gang which hs vas after. FLYNN
had the bo,,y photographed from a
number - angles while experts In
RECONSTRUCTED the fca.
turrs 10 something approaching a llte.
Ike appearance Then. armed with
the- r1st nortcn pictures. Flynn
toYk = trip 20 ossininE 10 scc II any
~ the mcmhcrs ~ the Italian colony
In sins sing could Identify Tho dead
man
The IDEA proved 20 hc a gori me.
for convict whom Flynn lrcv--an
italian e-Vlug time for another coun
leTfeitlng casr-itentlhsd the photo
graphs as being those ~ his brother.
ln.lav. Maruena nsncdeuo whom he
described as hc1ng n peaceful hard.
citizen who had never been
implicated In any uf the crimes ot the
Italian settlement
Working backward from this clue
Flynn ard the oiher sccre, service
operatives trMlled the Italians whom
the chief had seen In the gr,pccry
store on the night II the murder. and
II WAS no, long before they had made
n complete roundup ~ the gang As
WAS to .e expected In crime NJ this
alihis were plcntlful, but, ne
WAS usual. these werr none too well
by fact, and II was com.
simple matter for the 10.
lice to get nj the bottom Of the case.
once the identity NJ the victim had
been established
A iudicious application of the third
iegree" hrough, 10 Itch, the fact that
Benefietto had been Killed because he
pad gotten wind of the counterfeiting
plot. and because he was the brother.
p-law Of the man who later Identified
he hody--a man who had incurred
he nndying enml;y Of his camra-
riots by turning states evidence. The
nfexihle laws ~ the society to which
hey both belonged--cne uf the so.
-ietIes which rules Little Italy with .
-ule Of iron and hand nf blood
handed the sacrifice uf the next of
Tin I'm the event ~ information being