The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-03-30

again came into contact with the two
Italians, and again the federal forces
had to be content With the losing end
aOf the argument.
This time the case was the famous
one Of the 6ttMorristown Fiyesn-fve-
dollar bills printed In precise imitation
Of the currency issued BY the National
Iron bank OF Morristown, N. j. FIynn's
men found that the trail led directly
into Little ITALY, IN New York, right
UP TO the door Of a grocery store
owned by Giuseppe de Primo. But
there, apparently, It disappeared into.
thin air. y IL 5sfsS@
Flynn Investigated the matter very
carefully from the outside, but the
only suspicious circumstance that he
could discover was that De Primo was
importing a much larger quantity of
olive Oil than HIS business appeared to
warrant. On account of the duty,
olive oil is usually imported In bar
rels and then canned or bottled on this
side-the empty cans being shipped
from Italy ready for use. : !
Feeling certain that there must be
some connection. between the olive oil
and the mysterious counterfeits, Flynn
first tapped several Of the barrels con-
signed to De Primo. But, these were
filed to the brim with oil. Of the pre-
else quality mentioned in&the bills OF
lading. Then, merely to, make certain
that he had not neglected any possible
angle OF the case, the secret service
man ripped open one OF the boxes of
empty cans Instantly the mystery
was solved. The cans contained roll
upon roll OF the "Morristown Elves" =
manufactured In Italy.
: In the roundup which followed this
discovery, Lupo and Morello were
gathered In by the government agents
and charged with, passing counterfeit
money. 1t was a moral certainty that
the two Sicilians had had a hand In
the plot-in fact, Flynn suspected that
they were the ringIeaders--but none
Of the others would implicate them,
even to save themselves. De Primo
and his associates went to the peni-3
tertiary, but Lupo and Morello walked
out of the courtroom still ~sneering at
the "brainless American detectives"
During the years that followed,
counterfeiting operations and Black
Hand murders, extortion and black
mail of all kinds were almost traced
to Lupo and Moreno-almost. Appar-
emily. they worked as far west as Chi
cago and south to New Orleans, but
every time the police or the govern
ment agents started to close in on
them. the pair slipped out through
some legal loophole prepared in ad-
vance. &.s z
n It was nine years after the original
I%upo-aiorello case that Flynn got wind
OF the fact that the Italian colony In
New York was planning a big counter
feiting coup The only thing, lacking,
according to the information which
reached government headquarters, was
"a printer.
A few days later, a young Italian
named Comita, who claimed to be q
,printing expert who had been forced
to leave Italy. on account of participa,
ton In a number of Malta outrages,
applied to Lupo for a position, The re-
.cruit was put through a grilling cross
examination, but Flynn had seen to 1t
that he was supplied with the proper
answers to. all the questions, and IL
wasn't long before the secret service
had On operative planted In thesvery
heart of the counterfeit plot
Comito reported that the gang was
operating from q small farm near
Highland, n. Y.and that thousands 6f
dollars III nriousscur1AncywaSSread
III be reIeasedg~ M
'But Lupo,' he added. .is prepar-J
Ing to take q trip to Italy and won't be
back ulntIf the spring.
very Well,,' replied Flynn, I'VE can
wait. Just lay low, until he returns.
Then we'll nail the whole bunch. 81
Il was early ID the following year
ten years after the first arrest and re-
lease OF the Lupo-Morello combination
that the secret service sprung it's
trap and rounded up 10 Italians. Dur
Ing the trial which followed, physi-
clans and other witnesses swore To-
aifbis which had been previously pre-
pared. But the government, aided Nv
Cofnito's frst-hand Evidence and the
testimony Of the men who had been
trailing the Italians, proved every point.
Units 4 thought ( took the eridence
OF 800 people ID do 4.
As q result, Lupo and MOrelio went
fo the federal prison IN Atlanta Tor 25
years, and Flynn was wen satisfied
with the 80 Der emf interest fupon his
original Investment ~ Ten years. work,
Accounting for the Blu.
Mrs. Bacon-They al ~ that
single grain cf indigo Will color = ten
of water. ssss1
M. Bacon--Do Won suppose that ST. "
Why the MIX II % blue this nlornln llE'
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Cigarette smoking II on fhe increase
Mi ever the world. according to q
census cf the industry. ~ 1919 Z
100000 HHcofin nails were smoked flI
the United states and more thanzler
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