New-York tribune., 1921-08-16

death is q. patient at Staten Island H,
The Camorra was definitely connect~S
ed yesterday with drug importation
and vending ring active in New York,
and not bootleg ring, as was at rrst
supposed.
Joseph Sileo, the twenty victim
of the present vendetta, lived at 10
Franklin Street, Manhattan. He was
shot and severely wounded yesterday
by an unidentified countryman as he
sat on the front porch of Munger's
Hotel, New Dorp Beach, Staten Island.
The assassin escaped, although Sileo
was surrounded by fellow members of
an Italian club, which had been picnick-
ing at the beach. In all twenty-one
vendetta cases the gunman has escaped
without leaving clew, although eleven
murders have been committed at the
crowded intersection Of Grand and
Chrystie streets, in Manhattan.
Another shooting which may have
Camorra connection took place last
night at 213th Street and White Plains
Road, the Bronx. Joseph Laraza, of
229 East Fourteenth Street, was the
victim. He was shot twice in the
stomach by an unidentified man.
Laraza was taken to. Fordham Hos
pital. He said he was approached on,
a subway train as it neared White
Plains Road station by man who
said he was a revenue officer and de-
manded to know what he had in his
L, 80 s@I L L l.
bottle of wine and that the "revcnue
officer" then placed him "under arrest
He said he left the train with the
stranger. AS they neared 212th Street,
he said, the revenue officer" drew I.
revolver and fired two shots.
DIR. Simon's Discovery
Grand and Chryst;e streets is
point in the dead center of the traf-
ticking in drugs. DIR. Carleton Simon,
Special Deputy Police Commissioner
in charge of the narcotic squad, has
proved by his records that eighty per
cent Of drug vending and possession
arrests were made within few blocks
of this point. Drug peddlers arrested
in the theatrical districts came from
this section. DR.. Simon said:
I'VE find the Camorra always has
been connected with drug addiction
,
drug users themselves. They use drugs
for purposes of making large profits
and for purposes Of gaining control
over human tools to do the crganiza-
tion's work. ! can show the direct con-
nection between. narcotic drugs and
crime by historical records dating back
to the eleventh century. Take the word
assassin. 1t comes into the English
language from the Italian word asst,
and this word comes from hashish, the
earliest of the narcotic drugs of which
from the Arabic and the Arabs had the
word hashshashin, meaning person
who used hashish, and also secret So
ciety murderer.
-"The ,hashshashinl literally hash
ish eaters was military and relig-
ious order in Syria founded in Persia
by Hassan Ben SaSbah about 1890. A
colony migrated from Persia to Syria,
settled in various places, with tneir
chief seat on the mountains of Leb
on,~and became remarkable for their
secret murders, in blind obedience to
the will of their chief"
AN Keep Silence
Sileo, the victim Of the attack yes
terday, was twenty-five years old and
boyish in appearance. He had gone to
the DedCn Wlttts the sunshine Olip,
which has roor.s nears Canal and Mott
streets. He was having luncheon with
friends when a gunman appeared and
opened fire. The assassin fired three
shots and the three took effect, one in
the victims head. one in an upraised
hand and one in the abdomen. Sileo
was taken to Staten Island Hospital.
Captain Ernest Van Wagner. of the
Eighth Detective Bureau. and Rich
moasrs assistant district attorney.
Cha ses b. Dullea. arc conducting the
investigation and questioning wit
ncssea.
| Philip Slice, u brother Of the VIC
tim. was near by when the shooting
took place. He had little to say.
When the police questioned the pie
nickers. not sne was found who would
admit he had seen the murder.
When you think u Ssltf@E
Think of WHITING a. dvf