The Barrel MysteryFlynn, William J. (William James)
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The Barrel Mystery
Flynn, William J. (William James)
Detective and mystery stories; Fiction
On October 24, 1902, a registered letter addressed to Andrea Pollara,
with the return address P. Inzarillo and Giglio, was returned to Lupo
at his residence, No. 433 West Fortieth Street. Pollara could not be
located in the Canadian camp and so the letter came back. Lupo signed
the receipt for the returned letter. The handwriting was the same as
in the instances already related wherein the "Black-Hander's"
scribbling was identified by an expert.
I will not weary the reader with further efforts along this line of
reaching one of the big chiefs of the gang as he stood far in the
background, certain of his immunity from any connection in a legal
sense with the distributor of the money his brain had planned to build
up his fortune on.
CHAPTER XXVI
"BLACK-HAND" PROPAGANDA
The method followed in enlisting Antonio Schiavi into the service of
the gang affords a typical example of the cunning, watchful procedure
of the Lupo-Morello secret propaganda, which was in a fair way to
become of world-wide scope. A gang member, Giuseppe Gudo, managed to
send Schiavi to a drug store where he was sure to meet Antonio
Miloni.[7]
Schiavi tells of leaving Rio de Janeiro about February 23, 1909, on
the steamship _Gunther_, and arriving in New York in the middle of
February of the same year. While on shipboard he became acquainted
with Giuseppe Gudo, a tailor of Newark, New Jersey. After striking up
a friendly acquaintance with Gudo Schiavi says, and telling Gudo that
he was a litho-engraver, Bono sent him to the drug store of Mocito,
at No. 20 Broome Street, where Schiavi was to ask for Giuseppe
Carlino, another litho-engraver who would get employment in New York
for Schiavi.
Schiavi never met any Carlino, he says, but Gudo had spoken about him
(Schiavi), the latter learned at the drug store. Accordingly, Schiavi
continued to go to the Mocito store and remained there for a half day
at a time in the hope of meeting Gudo. He was unsuccessful in this,
though, but often met Cecala at the drug store. One day Cecala spoke
to him, Schiavi says, and suggested that with a little money he
(Schiavi) could start in a profitable business.
Cecala never said much more concerning this business venture, though,
to Schiavi, but one day Cecala made a further suggestion that Schiavi
might help a certain man learn the photo-engraving business. This man,
according to Cecala, had been in the bicycle business, but had given
up this enterprise and was looking around for employment that promised
to be more remunerative.
Finally, one day at the drug store, he was introduced to Antonio B.
Miloni by Cecala who told Schiavi that Miloni was the man of whom
Cecala had been speaking and who wanted to learn the photo-engraving
business.
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