New-York tribune., 1921-08-24
Bond Robbers
Murder Linked
With Canorra
Staying of Binkowitz, Who
Fled With $4,000 in Sc
curities in August, 1919,
Laid to Assassin Band
Identify Another Suspect
Reporter Picks Out Man in
Line-Up Who Fled After
Killing Here on Feb. %

Ol.c &GQltlOIdl IHulQSl is iS6di hCO
ny the police as practically solved and
another was added to the list of pos
siblc Camorra killings yesterday,
hringing the total Camorra murder
list to 1873, with sixteen solved in New
York and eleven in Detroit To these
might be added five solved in Syracuse.
The murder Of Detective Lieutenant
Joseph Petrosini, predecessor Of Ser
geant Michael Fiaschett, Of the police
Italian squad, is not included in the
list, although Fiaschetti repeated his
assertion yesterday that he believes he
will be able to prove who shot and
killed Petrosni in Palermo, Italy, in
1909.
1t now seems possible that the mur-
der of Benjamin Binkowitz, youthful
brokerage firm runner, VINO absconded
with SITS, 900 in bonds and whose body
was found with head severed August
81, 1919, near Milford, Conn, may be
attributed to the Camorra. Detective
Fiaschetti would not discuss this case
as an established Camorra killing, but
said it had all the characteristics
Entertained Before Being Slain
1t developed that the youth, after he
had committed the robbery, was enticed
to q Connecticut roadhouse by a num-
Der of Italians, who wined him and
dined him and introduced him to
women. They then invited him for an
automobile ride and murdered him at
Il point on a lonely road near Milford.
In large number of the Camorra mur-
ders the assassns entertained their
victims before Staying the i'm. In all the
Detroit murders the victims were first
taken for auto rides or were invited to
parties. The Camorra has found this
an easy way to entice its victims to
lonely places, where murders are less
likely to be detected.
Under the influence of red wine Bin
nowitz is believed to have contided to
his hosts where he had hidden the
murder followed. Fontano, the young
Sicilian barber, whose confessions have
cleared so many of the Camorra muir
ders, will be questioned regarding this
case
Reporter Identifies Suspect
At o'clock yesterday afternoon a
reporter for q New York newspaper
picked from u lineup Of eleven men
one Mariana Galande, of 1913 Austin
Street, painter, and one Of the seven
men arrested on the information given
Detective Fiaschetti by Bartolo Fon~
tano the barber
"Ihis looks like the man," he said.
On February %, 1921, the reporter saw
man shoot and kill Joseph Granatello
in 'front.' Of 1913 Chrystie Street, Man
haitian. The assassin used sawed-of
shotgun, firing both barrels. AS he fed
the witness says he got good look at
lim Previous to his Identification
yesterday Galande was held as an ac-
complice Of Fontano in the murder on
July 80, 1921. near Asbury Park, N. j.,
of Camille Caiozzo Caiozzo was in
vited to a duck hunt and shot by Fon-
tano with double barre'ed sawed-off
shotgun. Fontano confessed Galande
will be held here, instead Of being sent
to New Jersey for trial.
Directed by Sicilians
Detective Fiaschetti said yesterday
there was no doubt of the direction Of
1he Camorra in this country by a ST.
Gillian gang. lie said the Italian gov
ernmcnt had fought the Camorra for
years, and that at one time, about
twelve years ago. sixtyeight were ar
rested in one Camorra band in Pa
lermo. Thirty Of these were convicted
OF murder, and among the thirty was
Father Vitozzi, a priest, who was ire
futaoly linked with the murder gang.
There is no death penalty in Italy All
the men convicted were given life SEN
tences.
Detective Pasouale Benedetti, of
Syracuse, yesterday asserted that he
could directly charge five murders in
Syracuse and others in Flint, Mich, to
the Camorra, members of which are
held in New York City. This Camorra
has carried on wholesale assassination
IN this and central New York cities,'
eaid the detective. I'VE are guarding
our evidence. as it is the property Of
the Metropclitan Police Association,
and - being turned over as fast az col
.ected. Many murders here are traced
back to Free Street, Syracuse, mur-
der in 1914. The fifth man to die was
the murderer o. the first man to die,
which murder is known here as the
Free Street case"
Know Slayer Of Mlgiloro
Beneditt said the Siclian Camorra
bad been operating successfully in the
United States for more than twenty
year lie declared the surface had
only been scratched in the probe. "We
know that the Italian who killed Cola
E4lo A4@-(,4iOfo IN tHc salt Covers, near
So4tey. Ne" York, sixteen years ago,
and who subsequently, escaped to Italy,
Is member Of the Camorra. Through
evidence forwarded to the American
CONSUL in Rome e~was convicted and
gwen lie Imprisonment" said Bene-
dl+ti
Under threats OF revenge il thew
dlsobeyed them this gangster compelled
the sister and niece ofthe dead man to
b1ry nm uncer the flooring Of their
house and kept ther lips sealed until
tne body. was discovered five months
afterward."
i was member Of the Flint. Mich.
l gang whom Detective Bcnedetti charge
with the FREQ Street killing. This
Turdercr became SO active that he won
the leadership Of the Camorra in Amer
1ca. Countless unnamed crimes are be-
fieyed to have been engineered by this
man: wno later met his death at the
hands Of a jealous member OF his own
gang Dencdctti charges 70 this man
1'ur Syracuse murders, two in Flint,
one ~ Buffalo and one in Detroit