The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-08-10

Brooklyn, and our whole future seem
ed assured, when that black cloud ap-
peared which was soon to o~verspread
our sky.
"One night, when Gennaro re-
turned from his work, he brought A
fellow-countryman back with him.
His name was Gorgiano, and he had
come also from Posilippo. He was
a huge man. as you can testify, for
you have looked Upon his corpse.
Not only was his body that of a
! giant, but everything about him was
/, grotesque, gigantic, and terrifying.
His voice was like thunder in our
little house. There was scarce room
for the whirl of his great arms Is he
talked. His thoughts, his emotions,
his passions, all were exaggerated
and monstrous. He talked. or/rather
roared, with such energy that others
could but sit and listen, cowed with
the mighty stream of words. His
eyes blazed at you and held you a
his mercy. He was q terrible a"d
wonderful man. l thank God that he
is deadi
He came again and again. Yet l
was aware that Gannaro was no
more happy thar I was in his pres
ence. My poor husband would sit
pale and l~istless, listening to the
endless raving upon politics and
upon social questions which made
2 up our visitors conversation. Gen
( marc said nothing, but | who knew
him so well | could read in his face
: some emotion which / had never
seen there before. At first I thought
l that it was dislike. And then, grad
ually, | understood that it was moro
than dislike. 1t was fear a deep.
secret, shrinking fear. That night
5 the night that read his terror I
put my arms round him and l i'm
plcred him by his love for me and
by all that he held dear to hold moth
ing from me, and to tell me why thii
huge man o~vershadowed him so.
He told me, and my own hear
d grew cold as ice as I listened. NY
poor G~ennaro. in his wild and fiery
days, when all the world seemed
lagainst him and his mind was driven
T. half mad by the injustices of life,
S had joined a Neapolitan society. the
Red Circle, which was allied TO tho
Y old Carbonari The oaths and
secrets of this brotherhood were
h frightful; but once within its rule
no escape was possible. When we
u had fled to America Gennaro thought
that he had cast it all off forever.
:" What vas his horror one evening to
n meet in the streets the very man who
t had initiated him in Naples, the giant
V C0""iaro a man who had earned the
IS name of Death in the south of Italy.
Is ~ .e was red to The elbow in mu--
Ie deri He had come to New York To
avoid the Italian police, and he had
already planted a branch of this dread
d full society in his new home. All this
Gennaro told me. and showed me 4
2 summons which he had received that
If very day, a Red Circle drawn upon
!: the head of it telling hi mthat a judge
it would be held upon a certain date,
II and his presence at it was required
and ordered.
ID THAT was bad enough, but worse
is was TO come. | had noticed To-
Is some time that when Gorgiano came
TO US. as he constantly did, in the
n evening, he spoke much to me-: and
even when his words were to nv
as husband those terrible, glaring. wild
beast eyes of his were always turned
i, upon me. One night his secret camc
j, out. / had awakened what he called
love within him the love of a
brute a savage. Gennaro had nos
1s yet returned when he came. He
pushed his way in, seized me in hi
ye mighty arms, Rugged me in his
IL bears embrace. covered me with
"a kisses. and implored me to come
N away with him. ! was struggling
and screaming when Gennaro en-
tered and attacked him. He struck
Gennaro senseless and fled from the
house which he was never more TO
~ enter. 1t was a deadly enemy that
we made that night.
RI A few days later came the meet.
> ing. Gennaro returned from it with
n a face which told me that something
of dreadful had occurred. II was worse
than we could have imagined posi-.
a. BILE. The funds OF the society were
,d raised by Matchmaking rich Italians
in and threatening them with violenc7
should they refuse the money. i
seems that Castalotte. our dear
Il. friend and benefactor. had been ap
preached. He had refused to yield
a, TO threats, and he had handed the
notices to the police. 1t was re
solved 10Y that such an example
bo should be made of him as would pre-
vent any other victim from rebelling
At the meeting it was arranged tina.
!, he and his house should be blown
- up with dynamite. There was {
"a drawing of lots as to who Should
~ carry out the deed. Gennaro saw
our enemy's cruel face smiling a
him as he dipped his hand in tn,
IA bag. No doubt it had been pre-
M arranged in some fashion, for it wa
-, the fatal disc with the Red Circl
upon it, the mandate for murder
=. which lay upon his palm. He wa
to kill his best friend, or he was Il
expose himself and me to the ven
- geance of his comrades.
60 "All that night VIC sat together
~ our arms round each other, eacl
- strengthening each other for tn
os troubles that lay before US. The yer
he next evening had been fixed for tn
u, attempt. By midday my husban,
and l were on our way to Londor
but not before he had given our Der
efactor full warning of his danger. an
- had also left such information for tn
police as would safeguard his life 10
~ the future. 4
~ THE rest, gentlemen, you kno,
for yourselves. We were sure thu
ei our enemies would be behind ms lik
III our own shadows. Gorgiano had hi
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