Gunnison news-champion., 1923-11-02
True
Detective Stories
TEN YEARS LATER

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SeW YOrE office % the United
States secret service vas to order the
arrest q; two Italians. ylnceuzo Lupo
and giuseppe MoreIIo. on charges Of
manufacturing and passing counterfeit
money. BU' The SlcilIsus, Auucipai-
In. such q Rove. had taken car. that
their trails acre well covered, and al
the trial they produced a nOck 0f Wit
uessss. vho sWore {" a!-bis which II
fsctIaily pr.y-Htei a conviction
As Mor,.Io and his COMPANION
passed out Of the courtroom. after the
cns- against them had been dismissed
LuIso remarked iH a voice loud enough
Tor Flynn 10 oysrhsIr. Those pigs
Uf American detectives haven't the
bruins 10 zff IA" evidence they need.
TEsyu never LAND C-"
The man who later barame lhe head
u the secret s-ryl-- aid nothing at
the Tine.
II aH. thr-. year. before Flynn
o. gnlr yuu" Iut" cuH'Hct with the Two
Italians. and asaln 'hs federal fnrc.s
bad. rr ur r"ar"ut gsrh the losing md
nt ihc Argument
This umr the case was the f1mous
uao "g Jlr ~NorrzJDau Tlvr-'--,ve-
dollar bills printed .8 precise iw.lat.Un
OF %. currency issued ny the National
Iron haas ~ M0TTIs;uun. y J F!luu's
men fuuuI T5G, the trail led directly
into "LI'rIr Italy" iu New York. right
owned bog giuseppe de Primo. But
thsr, uppaout!y, tJ disappeared into
thin air
Flyun Investigated the matter very
carefully fruu the outside but the
uuly suspicious circumstance that he
could discover was that DE Primo was
importing much larger quantity Of
olive Oh than bis business appeared TO
waruut. On account of the duty,
olive niI il usually Imported 10 bar
rrl- 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 Cuputerfeits, Flynn
first tapped several % the barrels con-
signed 10 DE Primo But these were
filed 10 the brim witt oil OF the pre-
else quality mentioned in the bills OF
lAdiug Then, merely TO make certain
that he had not neglected any possible
angle of the case. the secret service
uIHn ripped open on" OF the boxes Of
empty cans" Instantly the mystery
was solved, The cans contained roll
upon roll OF the "Morristown Fives,-
manufactured In Italy.
In the roundup which followed this
discovery. Lupo and Morelio were
gathered IN by the government agents
and charged with passing counterfeit
money. IL was moral certainty that
the two SicilIans had had hand In
the plot-ln fact. Flynn suspected that
they were the rim. ..leahers-but none
OF the others would lmplicate them.
even TO save themselves. DE Primo
und his associates went to the peni-
,cutiary. but Lupo and MoreIlo walked
out OF III. courtroom still sneering at
the '.brninless American detectives
During the years that followed.
countcrfclting operations and Black
Hand murders. eStortion and black
mail OF all kinds were almost traced
TO Lupo and Moreilo-aimos'. Appar.
entity they worked as far west as Chi.
cago and south TO New Orleans, but
every time the police or the govern.
msnt agents started to close In on
them. the pair slipped out through
some legal ioophoie prepared In ad.
vance.
II was nine years after the original
Lupo-Morello case that Flynn got wind
of the fact that the Italian colony In
New York was planning big counter
feltine coup. The only thing lacking.
according to the Information which
reached government headquarters, was
a printer.
A few days later, young Italian
named Comita, who claimed to be
printing expert who had been forced
to leave Italy on account Of participa
tion In n number OF Mafa outragcs,
applied 10 Lupo for position. The re-
NIuit WIS put thIouSn u Hr1liiuX Cfus>-
examination. but Flynn had seen TO It
that he was supplied with the proper
answers to all the questions. and II
wasn't long before the secret service
had an operative planted In the very
heart of the counterfeit plot
Comito reported that the gang was
operating from small farm near
Highland. n. v. and that thousands o,
dollars in spurious currency was ready
to be released.
But Lupo." he added. "is prepar-
Ing TO take trip TO Italy and won't be
back until the spring"
Very WELL" replied Flynn, "we can
walt. Just lay low until he returns.
Then we'll nail the whole bunch.-
1t was early In the following year
ten years after the first arrest and re-
lease Of the Lupo Morello combination
that the secret service sprung Its
trap and rounded up 10 Italians. Dur