New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-07
4 Killings in 3
Days Keep N. Y.
Officers ON Go
Youth ON Bail OH Robbery
Charge Is Held as Wit
ness Who Saw Police
man Neville Murdered
Camorra Again Is Active
Victim of Brooklyn Assassin
Branded With Mark of
Slayers;> Suspects Taken

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the shooting of Policeman Daniel ].
Neville on August 2s occupied the at
tention of the police and the District At
torney's homicide bureaus yesterday
Two of the killings are attributed to
the Sicilian Camorra, which is charged
with committing more than 200 murders
in New York and total of nearly 800
killings in various cities since last Au-
gust.
New arrests have been made in De-
troit in the Camorra crimes, and the
Italian detective divisions of a dozen
cities are working intensively on the
cases, but swift and sure killings con-
tinue with a regularity which startles
police departments. District attorneys
officers regard these tragedies as signs
Of state of lawlessness that never
before existed in the country. None
except Sicilians are caught in the Ca
mora death net. Officials say this is
tRe only encouraging aspect of these
cases.
Brand of the Camorra
Any doubt that might have existed
as to the existence of organized bands
of assassins was dispelled yesterday
by murder committed in Brooklyn,
where the victim was found shot to
death. Tattooed on his arm in red
ink were the words: ''Viva la
Camorra.!"
Detectives Sheehan, Sullivan and
N
son, twenty seven years old, of 534
West Forty-seventh Street. The police
say Lamson saw the shooting Of
Policeman Neville. William Hoey,
twenty year-old gang leader, is
under arrest in this case
Lamson, it developed yesterday, was
at liberty on $4,000 bond in an assault
and robbery case. He was questioned
for three hours at the West Thirtieth
Street station and then taken to the
District Attorneys Office, where he was
examined by Assistant District Attor-
ney P. Francis Moro. He denied all
knowledge of the murder of Neville.
Mr.. MORO had Lamson brought be-
fore Judge Joseph Mulqueen and asked
the court to hold him as a witness.
! why not increase his bond to $4,000
on the assault and robbery charge ?"
asked the court land then you will
be sure of him." This was done and
Lamson was remandedt to the Tombs.
Hoey's Indictment Sought
Mr.. MORO said he would go before
the grand jury to-day and ask first
degree murder Indictment against
Hoey III have six witnesses against
Hoey" he said, "and | could produce
others if necessary"
In the latest alleged Camorra kill
ing suspect was apprehended. The
Brooklyn police arrested Salvatore de
Caprio, twenty-five years old, brick
layer, of 81 East Seventh Street, Brook
lyn. De Caprio was arraigned in
Coney Island court before Magistrate
Folwell yesterday and held without
bail, charged with the killing Of An
thony Piszone, who came to New York
from Chicago about two months ago
The body of Pizzone, bearing the
Camorra tattooing, was found with a
bullet wound in the back and two
wounds in the chest near East Seventh
Street and Avenue ?, Brooklyn, 1on
Monday morning. Two revolvers were
found. From one four shots had been
fred. The remaining shells contained
steel jacketed bullets, and in a pocket
We're found other steeljacketed bull
let's. Pizzone appeared to have been
( shot with his own weapon. The sec
ond gun had not been discharged.
Admits Using Razor
/ De Capro told the police PiMone
had come to see him Saturday night
| about job and had left with a friend
whose identity the prisoner declared
! he did not know. De Caprio said he
I had not seen nor heard from Pizzone
1 again.
Francisco Sciarra, living in a Bow
cry hotel near Broome Street, is held
on charge of slashing the neck and
killing an unidentified Italian beside a
Tombs wall, within a half block of the
Criminal Courts Building. Monday
evening. He was questioned yesterday
by Assistant District Attorney MORO
Sciarra said he knew the victim of
this assassination by sight. He said
the man was intoxicated and had in
suited him. Sciarra demonstrated, he
said, and the man struck him several
blows on the jaw. Sciarra exhibited
swollen jaw He tried to get away
he said, but the unidentified man as
saulted him again, and in fear of his
life, he explained, he welded a razor
Asked why he had a razor, he said tina.
he carried both his razor and brush to
prevent the theft Of his shaving imple-
ments in his Logging house. He had
| the brush in his pocket when arrested
! Sciarra declared he believed the mar
he slashed was following him
Policeman Upheld
Acting Captain Michael Fiaschctti
who is Investigating the killing Mon.
day night of Luciano Carriffe, of 81
Canal Street, by Policeman Albert
Prette, said yesterday that the police
had evidence that the shooting was
unavoidable. Prette shot Carriffe a,
Forsyth and Hester streets while Car
rife was fleeing arrest.
Acting Captain Fiaschetti said that
candy. store conducted by Clarifies
brother-n-law, John Scapaticci on For
syth Street had been under surveil.
lance. The place had been raided as
disorderly house and the police had
arranged to raid it again.
Detectives continued yesterday to
probe the case of Gregorious Edai
Greek fur cutter, known as George
Day, who WAS shot and killed Saturda
nigMt in the hallway of his home. 23e
East Twenty Eighth Street, No arrest
had been made in the case last night.
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