New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-18
Leader ofAccused Murder
Band Screams Threats
to Kill; Tries to Choke
! Informer in the Tombs
Italian Sees Ghost,
Confesses in Sleep
Victims May Number 100
in 3 Cities; Bodies Of
Many Burned in Ovens

ctettl ana 1T, tarleCOn SIMON, Spe-
tisl Deputy Police Commissioner and
head OF the narcotic squad, were
marked for death by the italian Ca
nora, charged with seventeen mur-
ders and suspected of more than 100,
It was learned yesterday. How long
they have been on the murder list is
not certain.
Police Of New York, Detroit and
Chicago, where there have been q sue
cession Of italian murders, were tabu-
lating totals yesterday and exchanging
telegraphed comparisons in an effort
to check the activities of the Ca
mora, seven members Of which are
held on murder charges here. 1t was
said yesterday that the total of these
murders in various cities might reach
more than 100.
Sergeant Flaschetti. in charge of the
Italian squad at Police Headquarters,
says he has positive evidence connect
ing the gang with seventeen murders
IN New York. Police in Detroit re
port seventy murders and the Chicago
total IS more than twenty. The seven
teen murders already connected BY
evldence With the ring are only a part
OF long list Of such crimes in New
1ork, brooklyn, Staten Island and New
Jersey. Assistant District Attorney
Brothers has counted twentv.seven If
these murders IN New York alone. and
the Jersey and Brooklyn lists number
more than dozen each
Operating at Least Five Years
These figures are for the period from
december 70, 1920, to date Bartolow
93o|hfano, barber. Of 36 ST. Mark
Race, brooklyn, through whose confes-
sons all the arrests we're made md
VINO admits figuring in five murders.
says the gang has been active in New
iork and Detroit to his knowledge for
lSe years. How many murders the
Canorra directed during ttaf time can
ony De left to conjecture.
fontano said yesterday that he knew
ot nve men marked for death. includinp
himseif: Stefano Magaddno, thirty
years old, of 1o5 Roebling Street, Brook
iyn' leaders OF the Bonzentre gang, the
New lork branch of the Camorra, yes
tefcay told Sergeant Flaschetti and Dr.
SIMON tina. they we're among the men
marked for murder
=" nile being questioned at Headouar-
! iers Magaddino, who had been beaten
Matsc resisting arrest, again began to
asat ylo!ously. He attacked Fontano,
attempting to choke him. When pushed
ssiae by Sergeant Fiaschetti, Magad-
diAo Kicked at Dr.. Simon and leaned at
tae commissioners throat
I'll burn you for this" he shouted.
1o1 can't get away with it''
Burn" Is Camorra for "Kill"
IA he language OF the Canorra
cHFa means kill The society
e:ien does burn its victims. The ashes
sie thrown TO the winds Bonzentre
tae leader Of the New York Carorra,
va baker in Brooklyn and was killed
and burned IN his own oven fifteen
ear ago. Vito Bonzentre, of 115
Eoeoiirg otreec, Brooklyn. nephew
me origln.' Sigh mobsman," or
ssng leader, IS among the men arrest
so' bartolomeo d Gregarlo, of AIS
Eoeoling Street, Broohlyn, another man
ne rrst murder confessed by Fon-
tsao was that OF his life-long friend,
sarnlLlio Ca,ozzo. OF 250 West Forty
'Trd Street, whom ne lured to a duck
{onc AZ Avon, near Asbury Park, where
ne dispatched him With a double load
q buck shot, on July 30
mis- murder preyed on the mind Of
fontano who says Caiozzo's spirit ap-
psared TO him repeatedly, and advised
Elm % confess
lhls spirit haunted me- Fontaro
confessed in Italian. I began think
1ng that | knew too much and that
Insy would burn me alive IN an oven.
1aen came and begged protection"
Begged Police Protection
fortano came % Police Headquarters
fsferal nights ago and said he was pur-
i1sf ~ q murder ing and told of eev-
ffal MURDERS, shielding himself He
va -ent 70 the Broadway Central
hotel, under guard Of Detective Peli-
erino' # the Italian squad, while hs
f9Ly 7as beng checked.
ne second n.gnt At the Broadway
1ssatral Hotel Fontano vas restive, and
fsll.grinos who was awake and watch
1aE, say him spring from his bed. In a
toncamoulistlc state fortano raved
sooTs me room Pelligrino let him
TAX. ln his sleep rs he raved Fontano
Ieeountsd the murder Of hs best
srisnc, Caiozzo. Then Defective pelli-
s'.ro awakened him and told him What
% nad confessed Fontano denied
sxsry word Of Il, but later admitted it
+s' rchifDnfe1 ny sergeant i5tfncft
en- Detective Pclligrino 1T Headquar
ran tnis point on the work was
s2s.sr. Fcntano tod all he knew and
ssi,h's'sd the detectives in every way.
NJ azfeed u help lay the trap which
..,sntfd in The arrest of Magaddino at
,,ss Gfand Central Station, where
sasyseclno gaYe Fonsano money and
ss't' nim % report 10 the Camorra
Naasf in bgTalo.
~ "f3pnz arrests wnich arc 10 be made
q pcsslbie, are three n Buffalo, nine
= vs'fpit and zeveral more IN New
ts' ksfx several Wings u the inter
.e"cnal famotra are under eurveil-
s~sef u nag said yesterday, and the
..ssss'ifsflon, now that II has pro
sssssH - faYorsbly. viii be far
Fsathiny
Palermo Police Notified
..Ireaifs in Palermo and other Italian
s"'ss haze been communicated With,
nst fne-Jtslisn wings of the Ca-
T,'a T,''a my De clipped closc, md Deputy
- ~ DftTctiYns JameY u. Mccarthy,
r. r.. .Ds'Tr't. ID doing All possible 10
isfta - the zang from that strong
~ r1fFeant F'asehetti raid yestcs-
-sy De DesiFved there we're more italian
x~ 'r'rlavsd ~ exas sl,)
Elpx1rc ksa wfifioe Depefs are WHITING