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.ER"'I,,1908. A ' E C T I V E ' S T OPv. I E S 1 1 - , yi ;i - i ...... , - . . f -I , , . Dll " ' . "- - b - - If : V I ! " - 6 in k J " GaetanoRussa - -t- ' ....... t 1 ' I eV.''. By ' A-,JL; Drttmni 6 n d; JFbrmefGhiefioflifae 0:5; Secrei Service HEN "w ipeak o jealousy od crlmti eavsed ' , Jealousy we lnTtrlably think also of ort and 'wotnau.'Tblli li to Wcansa t& Jseart'a inost tender emotion, Ia" certain clrcnm : atancea, rlrea rta to thia particular form or Intanlty , and VMiwa ati nore-Uk!? taas niea to- tiif" K. cumb to. L . But I once knew a nun whosa jealousy - ; ' exceeded tuat f , anjr iremaa wbom-1 ever ancoun tered, wooa fury !aue4 sin) to Commit the mot te -V' rlbla erlmaa, and yet tier wai nd element of lore in It In fa bla rictlms were men, -1 ' I vaa )n charge of the New York dtrtrlct of the t United State Secret Berrtce when thli nan came into ' my ofllee. It waa In 1885, If I remember cdrrectly. I ; happened to glairct"througn'n' pn door into the re-v ceptlon room' wbea he eatte. b and ' saw htm. Be S ' asked for m. His appearance waa; so forblddlnf that I -toy chief clerk, not knowing' who he wts or what he' f wanted, was temporising with him when I stepped to ; cVtne dooaAd ibidem Jtf come Ip. " .17L, Vt l 1; .."Tou doona kow mer"he"eald, in a high pitched, , ' tone, hearQy laden with' foreign accent'. , ' ."Yes," I said, I know you." , - t :t rxou now, me r'uus wiut an air oi. increauuiy : . nd amaaenteni'v Then what eea my name r ' y' , w ' " V "Tonf ame, I replied, ?ls Qaetanousso. You are a murderer, you burned a tenement house la New ''C t , vrieane u wdjco a uuuiucr or pereoai ion laeirjjTe, - and you ar ounterfelter.T tv C.. J, y V, I nerer saw a tiger spring at bis prey.v 1 don't need , " J to, " I. saw , Busao hat ; moment. f Advancing" toward ' ; - me and bending over me, his ugly face distorted with. . nt krfWy iflioaaj-i't,::y " "" ' - P ' - ' "I bettai a-flflta dolla Ton no ean nroTe f eva maka 1' . . i - ,r s . da countafet" Then, with A shrug of the shoulders 4 and a ware. f 'uplifted palms-I mlghta'VllIoncMi . . ' man, but fno maka da countafef mon." t " , T -uerea your.piciure, uusso,- saia i, oanaing ni , -.' his own pTwtogrsph, .taken when you were tried for i. ' " and convicted of eounterfeltmg." , ' . " rThat n6 JdokaTlkenle,'? he grunted. "f v tf ,S "You are a better looking man. now,V I' said, laugh- - tng, rbnt Jthan yoo aU right" M -i ' ' ' ' - " Turning aharply- the course of the conrersatloa he - ss Oleoma- .do huelnessVlth you. ,. . ; r ' , "All right,' I said, "alt down. Whatdo yol wantr ' ; "Im-a sot tiredL'. 1 'can atand. -yTou chief heret " ' , ' ; ,v I told.' hi a i J .i j.rfi i"ir.isTj 7 - "Ton koJojHC9nntafe ttAa.luuaed;Pc4endrtoor; (. . I replied that I tied heard o,such' a .man., , , (1 ' ,He maka da plenta eountafet mon." St gotti One - houses away. Hp town. !' He; gotta Jra . sixa - Jnen-f ; " come era morning bout slxa seven o'clock; They maka da eountafet, mod all day da. tea cent,: da " twenty-flTe cent and da half dol; mska da plenta, '.thousana dot' Colendalno, he aell, . Srerybody . they' MM all N Tark .5 ;, i J ,iH.:A "Youwanfa catchf -i tell yoa how Yea go hia '- house, you 'knock., da door nobody letta yon in. Itieaa Colendrln),' fhls-a wife, look outa window uppa i stair. fihJu of a door You no getta Jtat iBut Jod. getta iopiet plct (plpturel un4r your arm-xgett ie ligloua plct'hold o-he look, .'She 'coma down letta you in "You getta; wlbole lot officer. i- i J i i ll, in i -w -.- x. , r--r "i.. ris r - - " - a 1 ! ; ! i , a , Mrs,- Rosa .Bossow 1 - '-.'' f'vfk I ": i)' " rf r" rrrrj ' Ml M u i -W ; sdM& "' ill jsfc&rMrM !h Jt'rtfr- if,.' e'ttti- V f TO .-of,, j TV ' ' 1 4 1 -d;;t - ? ) lJ. ' ! U, .'.V 1 A'WMV II !'.V,1'SW.' Mm Keep 'em a-back. . , , She no see.T 'tohea she opa door, you ahova da foot' ' ' abe no canna shut AUa officer rueh In a house.1 . rDon'tyouauppoee they're gol-c,weanoMteli therer I aaked.' 1 : r'f'-'?1' froB ot wnIcn e were sitting. I did not 1 . .-Gotta- couple '&U heie! 1Tbl! the left at the next corner, two-a man, Itallan-a , XtaJlsiMtet'4'.'icP',? Vi shelf, he replied. .aght-vrite-a," lx-a ,'V; Russo pull sometlung 6om pocket" - - - . (q V 'V'-.f v:-s;;-'a':;"K;uL--'? '-i ' m t" i " ' ' ' 'day following a man with his head hearlly bandaged meantime Oolendrtno, baying changed bis mind about ' , annn maw mm sr nop noratn da v w am ' . . ..m..!.' , a f .a. . . -v . . . . . m"M wv. uvvm-loura, uieumn wuicu uoienanno urea, - , - r , a?; mm. us saia ne naa nerer seen busso oeror in V . ;'s ; . . , , j aud. iuui h vvicuiuuio iiuiiatii -. m. . - . .. " ; " ' ' ' " v :. :v: " ... : n!r7ii iaiii 1 "W iik n"mhi TniMni tf ' . wi t I ; - . rr""r 4-"r notning naa oeen obserrea that could we f "ua- w wJieuurminruauifMiiii , i. "3!. iSLLiii lendr,n? v lurked around aa if he knew our 10..,. ag t pret(;it for breakin. plac Ab , tew f my Informer t-epeated . ifter. m. !t "Same reason t is ooing any counxBrieiung., itni arw you aura Be la rTvf5 1, at once DUt two men at Work .watching the hniiM. ' . . . : . vim. h k. k v . . .7. - . .-Buuuier moving van appearea in ironi or? m .v... - ? T P 1 ln J!W;v;,;xhs door. i The, good werelloaded: into it. and moTe nntafermon Ds.bsrber soon mM . . , ,j v f,,'4..'es,eaj a uwuinaa ua uutcutcu. v at v siiiti iijitar i vp '. ai i- an - - . . . . .... v -r narraF AMinfarA fh DNaai Mua a a n. tnai 11 a maka da eontafet' men entered the housed Ever nirt t,. f nn 7r V. T1"1 .'T!?-""' w.w.oa. M " Ll .- il.u" .1" " ; trouble, and the young tnai says he haa lust reached w - "m " r mfftraan , in nvnn -snrn it 1 m tDira a a a . . an- m aa w aaanLaa1 wsaa uvea, wnfii uusi uqj , j. . say to barber, i-Ohj.what nno tlct on bottle way up ttt aon8t ?a a erwn4- " Iuu ahelftrTake it dowfl so t see it. And whet da barber -n without the police. jr. v- v .-Ai-rTX:: rr h. oriVda chair to reach: bottle ; Buaaa stick da , ."-ThHtt way CoiendHno did. Orer in Palermo, - nuu. jujvt lvi ui uuiiuarn .sua? ibiiiiit aiwi iiiunurHnfi - - - -. " - - Krery night they left 1 But ,:Tl:rirr:, And counterfeiting. and we had .'reached .what j seemed , to be ,the, end of the Cage. ; He said he waa sure. . He had s at Work. mr Z- ' " - f. wants, catch a 'da'' bad man moo," he added. . " yV. ' ",,,!), He then suggested that I should meet him at fire , o'clock is the afternoon f the 'aame day at '105th street and Second arenue,' at the elerated railroad sta- . tlon, down'stah-s.' He said he would walk ahead of me, and as soon as he reached jl point directly in : front tf Colendrlno's house,' wbtch sat far back from. the street,' he would drop his handkerchief. K"You.cbme clnalonl V . I had sent know whethe decided " "IH meet von aa . m . . , - : viiw w t-uuj, ,uy u viu iiHiuuiiuu, 9LUU. IorusuB L. . . , 1 . 1 i, ' . ahead off me all the time, i Nerer walk toward me., m. n wr raor Manila out Af TonrMcketa." .v . -I'iJ.i.-- - - 01 Italy tweea tbemselres without kny murder being done. ' Russo's plan was this: The man upon whose head a price had been set was to go to a butcher shop and - get a large beef llrer." He was then to "go borne, a dress," get into bed, hare hi wife bandage up his ; head and smear both the bandages and the bed clothes with the; liver. She waa then to circulate -the Story ' around the neighborhood that her husband had been fatally stabbed by Gaetano Rnaao, If neighbors earns to the house, as they assuredly would, they were' to be x ..permitted only to peep through a door held slightly 'ajar enough only to see the bandages and bed clothes Bd told that the patient was so low the phy- - slclan bad forbidden any one to enter the room,......--.,... " , The. rtricttm" agreed and the scheme was earrled " out Just as it had been conceived in the crafty brain ( of Busso.-: Bnt St this time' an unexpected complice ' 'Uoi arose, ; The merchant refused to pay the $300 l, whea Rneso called for it ;The "murder" did not look ''good' to him.' It was true he had heard of the assault upon.his enemy ana or ms suDsequeni aeau, out ne had' not been able to And any one who had attended the funeral, much lees seen the body, He was man to break his word, but her did sot want to pay, " for work that he 'doubted bad been done; ' "V , ; DtuM left the merchant's store with aa idea lurk in in nis nuna inu ne wee convmcea. wouia wui locxn lam toercBuui uwutj. f j.uw ticxv ui u the man who would not pay the 1300. In Jess time . than It takes to writs if. the six had ranged them selves in s semicircle In front of their victim and 'J each bad placed the point of s stiletto oa ths.mer- chant's throat 1 And in the fewest poaalbls number of w'otds the man was given to understand that he most instantly produce the tSOO dus for the murder , committed at hie behest by Russoi or else the stl- lettos would sldultaneously enter his neck..--..' ' " The merchant said he had only $200 in his store, v He was told they would take this on account His v wife went to th cash drawer, got the money and handed it orer.' And the, highwaymen left the place ? -without either the man or his wife taring made an , "cutcryl Not only that,, when the police heard of the 1 affair and went to the merchant's store, both be end his wife denied .that anything' of the kind had oc- " death Ruaso and his band would hare killed them. 7, Yet It is s peculiarity of Italians to bellere in set- j AIJm amis eawtnKU ftsAAnisr IkAiManleaa 'skaSiV i K 111 ys wa rrn mvhw wmvut miwmiw wjs i : Sttemptlng to tdo MQf one gets the worst of it, not to ' ,anM Sn-r arrests, r The Italians hold court at their TMs Is what . I mean: An Italian learna that a i Aim epoaen uiepanngiy oi, ms win or aone some- . , thing else. He tells half a dosen ef bis friends snd the offender Is invited to a card party to.be held, s t night or so later, at the horns of one of their number. , - The man sttends the party, The play begins with- -out anything to make him suspicious. He la treated - f lieu au mj, uuinii,tiwvi uiw wuui - , partly4 drinks fresiy,:''Befors.;th game breaks up, however, the Wow haa fallen : Perhaps the man is . In the hospital, perhaps in the morgue ft all depends 1 , on what he has dons and what the others bellere his ' 'malafevkMaV altAnM mm t a Ka Va 'las" 1a mJw st1a aw .' 1 1 isssi iiicaa , Bjuviuia vu, eaAsaj trv sa v vu niiu sb ' beating ' and ; black , eyes, , and, again, it may be that s gash haa been put across his face so that when ba returns to Italya they ail hope to dohe will go , branded as one whom; no one cs trusts.'.- tW-.-, . If the sentence of the ?court" be anything less than , murder or assault to commit murder, the police, when they reach the scene of the disturbance, usually find ' no witnesses. iQuIto often ! there' are'found In the C only sn aged woman Snd young man, - The ' ;t I didn't know: whatto JOvi Busso'sputatlonwas, s bad that', t. could net depend upon his word. The men. ,wiiit Knew, Uffht :M engaged In -making hadliimost dlsmiased the matter fronV my mind, some of the UtOe toys that Jna so often make in when. a week or two later, there earns to my office aa their homeit. At thkt tlma ttMr wa nn lonr miKnHa. .. . . . . . . lone t 'ima alone" ha uM m. , . -r7. , r Italian m rormcr -who naff frequently given metral . , yscuiiDcai tut VVUUl r V WUUJ ( LUV 1-. V if he is still living, he is wearing the scar every be- so manr Italians to sail toit i nut not- n..t i. 4oa, ji i, i , i r - - wir vucwwu w mjoa. cum u.A hui lunra hit wit jiiui --. M w vav iv vnu ura, uui in snnu it tn hun nr a nnrnTiAr-Ar miff va In. : . tO CO intO it.' '' " i . r '' - ' : 'i ' mi(u wnnM ItavA Kaon. nrfl. ,n.Mfl.4 l-i, -. .i . . An ..L nm. t ... ... . .-.uiua. JIWW U1HB UIM.W11IUU, , MM .-.- HUCB B. 1 TAUT (Ml th TrMtfCf AMP Vltll CThlr TltVWlfr a vM . - mA rat aft thai train Vrai start to rrallr. tTwn Tir..i.c.- J j . Cm' stlllet Into Mai Ue die. ? m!mti-9 showi him how to maks da eountafet. CcJeadrlno maka him better than : Hiumn'-j liaka tin ' filKntVkmuVa An 41 na mu,k Kdooko lik. it '.Tta wv: t nt sin. m. r .v. ' W Colendrlno U he were to teO. d Wg scar on face,: whew he go, back' ralermr " ' tte secreOreness of his countrymen was not iererybodr know, he traitor 'l i e . enough to keen Busso long out of prison. A few ; holder knows to be a, brand that some one has rlght - fully or wrongfully put on him. but no one knows ' Russo put It there. Russo's frtenda In Italy would ..y 'i- , -,- - ' " Vi .... t . . uiugq a naa sucn a, s r-f 4. . i . Too tWnKAr.. ..vij ri , X knew th s tobe true :HBsolia kllMi barh-li, iuj uiui-u ww. u w Hwut, vjuic uua inu ua anarsa7s iuicu - , - - - . j -. ' ava . . . . get ready go Italy.-Oo steamship office on ' f gat Chicago and had conricted otmorderin thsflf wmemfte' correctiy-w snd his wife were sent tip ettA i-. tirfr- s.mk aw, ri.a Snm ; uegree.. .i5ux ne iot a' new triau and when- be came m w .wiiuut , uiiTe ne ojea ColendrUio's hbuse, say.. to 'Missa jColeodrrno coart principal witness. against him' m;pcedto;t " c cream, jjei go witn me. aussa ixjien-v ' "".j","". r- cjuuracier or ue wora gowg on usiae. . , f t v w ..u ui uau ua wim wtT- wuu, ... - as Knao le tie building one of my men "spotted";, a movJng rsn had drlven up to the house and taken him that Is, waited for him la the? corridor ontelde . away ail of iU contents. .The .ran had been drlren JTLi la order that he" might hare a good opportunity to see to a point In. Fifty-fifth street near Eeventh arehue," WJhl him. Uunag my conversattoij with Uusso I had where the furniture was earrled Into7 a Ire er- six' made an excuse to go Into another room for a moment ; story brick tenement building. Uy men also reported that.oa the same day they had tracked Colendrlno to an Italian steamship office. ii ' The next day, Saturday, Russo came to my office. He waa the angriest man I ever saw. '' - ; -;-. ', "Why you no catena da bad manr be" roared, - "1 tella you how I tella you where. You no catcha. You walk im the opposite side few ;Cokndrino he goby . Italy Tuesday. .Mlssa Eusso feet ahead cf him. If be looks for a shadow he will she go by Colendrlno's house this week and she see' look behlr 1 him and will not lee you. And the mo-; them make a plenta eountafet' She see bushel' on da meiit you us him ap his handkerchief turn to the' floor. You no catcha I catcha."' ; '" "-; J lert at the first corner." .: :.M--; Iv'tThat' Busso.' s!d about hla lfeTWtIngColen-' The .tlr. e of m met at the appointed place and drtno'e house I knew to be true, as my men bad re time ,wi;iout any two of us recognizing another. The r ported ft to me. ' However, there was nothing to do but moment Euso saw me be storped wblttllne a piece of to keen un the watch on the hwjW tn tha Kon t!,r something vtould be seta that would Justify ua in breaking In. , - .- " ''''. -' '.-,':. Another week passed.', Colendrlno, who had' not Irr order tf ' f on h!a tnan in lav tftf yn ' llfnr X wanted one of the detectives to be able to recognise' fUra on sight . -. ,: " .' '.''.'i J' ,"...'; V I told tils other detectlvetorw at 105tt street and TSecond srenue at five o'clock r'iV-x-K . ' . TH walk oa the same sideof the" street behind Russo,". I said. In prison. ' " . ; wss not there: . He had been snlrited awn v. brrhw . He was the Strangest man I ever knew.' .- Craft v. : we? glre nice dinner before go..; We.harc;w", roTOe,:ea- 150 Ws acquitted. : Later ' "u's w wU jet a cowara at Heart I- nienta a ;uv,f. .. . " ...'' ijii reat, t Orleans and started a Uttl ihoa "is egonsm como not; tolerate tne idea that -nnni r.T.-r u,vf K Uis. vaifwu jutuf ( awy vvitio , 4 -rs - - . - , . - , .. atqra oesiae s'tenement iiouse. . to get tne lnsnrance : w mwu c mm m msxmg counterfeit money. . on ue store Be Durned the tenement house and serf so Be siew one and maimed the other -but 14 each Sral persona lost their ( Ilres.; . For this he waa sea rase he mads the attack like the craven he waaw ,tencea to imprisonment la, the penitentiary at Baton ? 1 ' ' ' ' 11 T... '..,. a.-a, . - - : t-.v a WM 7 Iia SavrlM Will aaaaa, aaa tm.11. it. . ' s." ua xnem our a lew. rears woea Jt . ; . . . . . a-. . - ? nuur; Miff Illf HOHO HT W UOMOOnBO, VU, 1 , 1 , ,. : . - . : V V i,.-. .:. 4 ,. i tJo hot fowl., T,va..i. tv av.'ii- iDwaj iM; WDTicti w nrarari ,v off, too, Colendrlno, maka da self mforti Taka 6" otttogwxrt and acape; .- ,; t a .as a a ' -.' - a t- a . a da. . - . naVTS nan nsuw aatpriknrtyr a m tiiai vtia .a a a . sitav Mma. - - - - " fern uu, ioo-i ao, ' xe comrortd Ann lyoienanno taasc.- " t.ct. h y -t-hib poet card buslneee la arknair -T,rMu a r i : A POST CARD PANIC ol da cost and da Ttt.vi?-J "I "rr" ww,w wTa', W e wrofn. . ;owfctllVwh0 the great foreJan marketa - itrrfV -. . . . . . . i . j i . . i .ji Tna anarai a,n mi, am mam, awmj ,a tMa ... . . ... uai ior liusso vf ani .viHnfTnno tssn jit n . ..y.. , yo w . ..vu and da test? He want to see' if Colendrlno bars da waiting for. the putbreak.; lt ame Just st the time S.tnief are bordering on panic Orerprodnctton snd wild speculation In the commodity art th causes.;, The n . . a X - a . am" at .:;' -l-' r-BW.-,a. won.a jBtirosrous iu.wss:potireiOToM-, watchad i, l.v.- rThen Busw pour out. da blglasawine and say; the convicts had two w,r killed, : A Uttle tater wlt th-rT!. TI l Unr k,a. r ... . ' ' ;-uere, voendrino, I drink to you health.', Coiendrme , .;-- """ "" no snow :;mUllnc enormoua nroDorttoa of thd inanrr iur inn na naa nor nn lha wkaui inn in aniM in hatn, . . - - ' - wood and swue" off down street it vi fit tLat t:;i. l-.undlns- strung alorj tie JiH-aUty wss one of tl,t i,,.:; r.ulo r " I to 1 'i ; .cvaru, bt-a Sj" y i '.I r -M ' it i ". .! : f 1:.t rr.v ;a ' 1 tiie street And what a ;! A lot of tumbledown Cast IilTer docks. The - t ia New York."-- '. .' ; tstreit and the Eastern L 0.-'rr,l h's handker- nr ' f . I ris'i-l the irvt tf lis lot a buUding, taka da glass, raise tot his face tip back his head and start to drluk. r.'.' .:V: Kl-T '- v; .' "But Rnsso not' drinkr Just yet? RossO pull some-1 thing from pocket ; Runso, you know,' when In ItaliV shoemaker. Russo pull from da pocket little knife,:' blade only Inch long, that he une to trim oft sole of shoe. And tvliile Colendrlno's head tipped back Rosw draw knife from top of face to bottom." ' ' ; f " ' ; My "Informer went on. In his broken English, 'to. Is order to supply the little stands in every store, at . TT cross roads the country orer. an Immense in dustry ha been developed in practically all dvlliied ;land. Incidentally the United (States Imported from it to the prison officials for the, purpose of getting his wn liberty as s possible reward." H'X-f&'j But I have yet to tell of the most spectacular crime t,... ... .. v-., . . i.. .. wermany in single year more than IG,000,(X0 w.,r:i . wa uiimt uini-0 sji uua uirani nsni sis iw nrsm n in ana inwas - end of Manhattan, weut to him One day and told him he wanted S certain man killed, ' For the Job he was wlUIn'to pay $300. ;: ;;A y' ' r'v tell how Colendrlno. believing he bad been mortally been seen s.nce tne more from 108th street, bad hot .J wounded, rushed for home, telling everybody he met merchant however, as ft afterward proved, the man once passed la or out Nur had his wife, nor any of that Gaetano Russo bad slashed him. A policeman who was marked for slaucbter wsi a frUmd of Ttn the children. A day or two'Iater, however, a pbj.i- heard hltf story. Intercepted him and took him to a Claa went into the bon., stayed a little wnL'e and hospital A lor? ercb for Borne Cnally renlted in came out ,Tbe next day Lo cay- iz- Atl.tis , bringing hiai t tne bedside of his victim., Cut ia the . of the bits of cardboard. - y The post card panic is most acute at r;v.e: t la Germany.' A year ago the great post car1 Cnus tien. BusM said he would do , tnfortunstely lor the Ja England and Amort,-., used every f u i:: to ll creaao their, stock lu those countrh', nut spec'--tloa end overproduction have brought te situs- Rnso went to him snd told hlnl he had been offered T,ls- TU dpsiers $300 to kill him. at the jams time outlining a plaa t ftl" 7 which they could ' divide the xr.cn.-t: ant's money be- a f 0 cd a !' t 1 1 r t a" t r 1 tJ ' ? tic
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