Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 28, 1909, Page 15

WORK OF NOTED DETECTIVE Life Stories of Joe Petrosino, Assas- sinated at Palermo. ZEAL IN RUNKNING DOWN CR00OKS Notable Service of n . Shere lock Holmes” In Solving Mys. (! of Crime--Conuplen- cun Instances. Tho nassassingtion of Detéctive Joe Petrosino of New York to Palermo, Sictily, whithér he was sent to Investigate the operations of Itallan and Siefllian crimidal a06ibtics, Is deeply regretted by thé police A8piartment and the Italian residents of the mbtropblis. New Yotk papérs are a unit in dodlaring the détective was a remarkable min in his line of work, featless in the discharke of his duty, and one of the in- valuable men in the service. A few of his achievements rival the deeds of “Sher- lock THolmes. One of the incidents of his career tecalled by associates was the fact that alx months bafore the assassination of President Mc- KKiney, In 197, Patrosino sent word to Waehington that there was a plot afoot to kil the prestdént. The detective had obtained this |nfofmation while he wa fh Paterron, N. J., Investigating the an- arehist cclony there, at the time it was discoverea that the plot which resuited in the ssfessination of King Humbert had been developed in that Vallowing = Siender Clew. A case comparat'vely recent, which well [llustrates how skilifully Petroino couid plek up @ criminal trail and how tirelessly he, could follow It, was that of a homicide eommitted in Van Cortlandt park. On the morning of Auguet 18, 1995, was found there the bady of a man slain, with thirty-six #tab wounds. The surgeons held it was that of an Italien, who had been a man of oulture. Petrosino told them' the mur- @érod man had been a laborer and-that he had probably been a native of Southern | Ttaly. It looked lke a partioularly difficult fase to unravel, but Petrosino discovered, in examining that part of thé park near where the body had been found, a small Kerap of solled papér lying In a clump of Buphies. It had been trampled repeatedly by these who had gone over the ground ahead of him, and it was so begrimed that tha Jittie writing on it was deciphered with digticulty. The detective finally made out the name “gabbato Gizzio,” and. the address, “Box #5, Lambertville, N. J." Though there Was rothing to Indicate any connection bétwedn the crime and the scrap of paper, #avs that the name was that of an Itallan, trosino went straight to Lambaertville. There he learned that Giszlo was working oD the Pennsylvania reliroad at Stockton, séveral miles away. Wheh he had found his man Gitzio ad- mitted that he had written the name on fhe paper. He said he had given it to his frland Antonto Tresielo, who had gone to New York on the last pay day with $400 or $800. Glzzio, who was brought back to this oty by the detective. identitied the body 6¢ the dead man 4s that of Trosielo and told the police he had heard that Trosielo B left Lambertville with ‘Antonto. Strollo, friother of the gang of rallroad laborers. *o also remembered that when Strollo re- turned he had a wounded hand. Hurrying back to Lambertville, Petrosino while at the rafiroad wtation saw & man Approaching on & bicyele who was an Ital- {an and who carried onc hand bandaged. #Petrosino questioned the bicycle rider and Was soon convinced he was' the very ‘man was after. He brought Strollo back to 4w York and confronted him with the body in the morgue. Mo use Petrosing’s own words, “he just shivered, lke this, and refused to look at it. 1 was watching him closély and I said to myselt then, ‘you're guilty, you ras- e Btiollo afterward confessed the crime. He told how he had written to Trosielo let- ters purporting to come from the latter's brother and inviting him to come to Yon- kers. The brothers had not met for years and Strollo had little trouble to lure his victim into the park, where he waylald and illled ham. 1t was the solled bit of crumpled paper, trodden under foot, but recoveréd by the tradned intelligence, that promptly followed the muager elug it afforded, that led to the ctiminal's cepture. Long Chuse Reward: Natalo Brogno was found dying from a stab wound In the back, at Baxter and Leonard streets, in July, 186. There had been a saloon row and Angelo Carbonl was grrested, convicted af the murder and sen- tebced to death. After the conviction of Caspon!, Petrosino recelved information thAt, although Brogno had been fighting with Carboni, the stab wound which caused death had been given by a man hamed Ceramelio, who was the father-in-law of Carboni, and who had treacherously cut| Brogno in the back as he reeled from the ettéots of a first blow given by Carbonl ‘o 1 started out to get Ceramello,” sald Petrosino, in narrating the story. ‘I got trace of him in Jersey City, but he go away ahead of me. I followed him to Phlladelphia and then to Millertown, in Delaware, but always arrived just too late to find him. Next 1 heard he wes in Mon- treal, 50 to Canada I went. There I heard Qéramelio had moved into Novo Scotio. Theke 1 missed him again and finally fol- lowed his trall back here to Néw York. Here 1 lost all trace of him. “One day, nearly & mouth after I had firet started after Ceramello, 1 was stand- ing on the corner of Elisabeth and Mott Btreets, when 1 saw his cousih. He knew me, but he didn't see me. I trailed the oousin into the Bronx and saw. him go intd & house. I watched that house until 3 o'clock in the morning, when I declded the man had gone to bed and I went to & place nearby and slept untll 5 Then I #ot back on watch, followed my man down and saw him buy a ticket for Baltimare. 1 telephoned headquarters 1 was golng out of town and then I bought a ticket for Baltimore, too. “1 was afrald I might be recognized. At that time I wore no moustache and I pulled o false beard out of my pocket and put . on. You couldn't see my face at all aftér that and my best friend would net héfve known me. In Baltimore my mar went to Corcoran alley—let me see, that wis about 5 o'clock In the evening. Oh, I ahould have sald that Ceramell, I had heard. was passing under the name of Flonl. Well, his cousin goes into the house and [ ctayed outside s0 as not to scare them. 1 was out at § o'clock the next morning trying to get the loocal chlef of poliee to give me & man to go With me &nd atrest Ceramello, but It was too early and the chief sald I must walt till the de- tedtives came in. 80 I went back to the house alone and &nocked on the door. # ‘Come In' someone said. *1 went In. There were three men and a womah on my left and a man leaning over & stove on my right. He answered the description I had of Ceramello. ‘Anybody 11l here? I asked. ‘I'm from the health board and I hear you've got amalipox. “Then | turned to the man by the stove GROUP OF YOUNG FOLKS WHO TOOK PART IN CANTATA AT DIETZ MEMORIAL CHURCH. ‘What's your name? Fionl. Come here’ ‘“There was an axe standing against the wall and as ‘I spoke I Kkicked it away with my foot. Then I grabbed the man by the back of the neck and took him down stairs. On the way to the police sta- tion he confessed to having killed Brogno. 1 brought him back to New York and he| | | was tried, convicted and sent to P\'?ln for life, while Carboni was pardoned.” “Didn’t Ceramello resist when you seizcd him?" somebody asked. “I suppose, though, | you had your pistol in your hand.” | “Platol? Why should 1?7 Petrosino re- torted, “He was fifty-two years old and only about five feet two inches tall. No, 1 dldn't take my gun out of my pocket. But, let me tell you one thing, I thought those people knew me and so I wore a falss beard. Then I found that none of them knew what I looked like. That was enough for me in the whiskers line. I wear only my own now." Discussing the hazardous character of his work, Lieutenant Petrosino once sald: “There are many who would like to kill me and who would A0 so, If they had the chance. But the fact that 1 am alive means that I don't give them that chance. 1 never go Into a place without figuring how I am golng to get out of it. And I have friends down here. I am not golng to get In & corner if I can help it, and I don't expect to. Of course there is al- ways the chance, though; that is a part of this business and you have to take It.” He Knew the Underworld. Petrosino knew the under world of New | York llke an cpen book. When it suited his purposes to adopt a d he was an adept at the art. akatel changes made him & laborer, & prosperous padrone or a flashy young sporting man. Thus he penetrated the inmost secrets of the back | rooms- of Mulberry, Mott and Elizabeth streets, those of the Twelfth street Little Italy and the newer Itallan section on the | east side of Harlem. He sat and sipped | red wine while cunning murders were planned within earshot. He knew the ear-| marks of every section of his native coun- try and could often tell by Inspecting the | scene of a crime whether its perpetrator a Siclilan, Neapolitan or came from —_— the banks of the Tiber. dlalects. He was untiring in the pursuit, and never forgot a crime that balked him Thus it came about that the chfef feature of plot making was to devise a way of keeping the trail from the keen eyes of “Joe" Petrosino, This man who so well served his adopted city was born in southern Italy forty-four years ago. He was brought to New York by his parents in 1869, and was educated In the public schools here. His father was a merchant tailor. UP-STATE IN ON THE FUND Schayler Woman Gives Hundred Dol- lars Toward Child Saving Institute, Four hundred and twenty-two dollars was added to the Child Saving Institute bu'lding fund Tuesday by the charitably in- clined of Omaha and vieinity. The vicinity means a $10 donation which was given by e knew all thelr Dr. Harold C. Gifford Omaha man will give $100,000 toward the wrection of a new orthopedic hospital with the understanding that the state of Ne- braska buys the site and installs a maluel training department that the crippled chil- dren sent to the institution may learn trades and to do work which will make them self-supporting. The plan of the Omaha men is much broader than at first supposed. Nebraska has a small oritiopedic hospital in connection with the Home for the Friendless at Lincoln. Dr. J. P. Lord of and / 7 N N\ EVERY INCH LI LIy, DINING ‘CAR MEALS 7R V/ DN % \ D, % kK P V ‘/////// CITY TICKET OFFICE, / ? '//m//_////’///(//////////?/////f ////////,f///'/////'y//)//////////'/////i////7//////////// ¢ BUSY PEOPLE | //////////////////////////////////////////////////// 7 w, E T, my, TO "Phones: Bell, Doug, 1828, and Ind, A-3231. Mrs. Chauncey Abbott of Schuyler, Neb, | omaha is superintendent. He has been |is commendable that the children should who evidently recognizes the vast amount P el ducat af 4008, thetnstitutldn. (a-0ding for Omaha,| S & F90d. wprk I lmitaa quartem and)| WESHE A% GRUECTEPANAINIY are tn the ng coun some training 1s given the children ad-|hospital and wo hope to see the offer of and the surrounding country. the Omaha man accepted.” The additional donations were? mitted to the institution, but it is impossi- | = J Previous, : ski 1":\”,1"’ b $36,50.80 | ble under existing condivions to give "them | 17 his annual réport to Governor Sheldon reviously acknowledge 836,640, . TR . last November Dr, Lord made this rec Mrs. Chauncey Abbott anything like the training which Dr. Gif- | Sog : ¢ iy ¢ ‘f_‘ehA s m'{g ford proposes to make possible if the legla- mi;‘,‘::[fi:‘ed of:the Boasd of o W. D. Willlam: 100:00 | 1Ature accapis the propoaition. and Builgings thet @uring ¢ mmlk L;xn Mrs. W. D. Williams 80.00| The matter came to light when the Uni- ot it st B nium provision be made whereby the hos- Mrs. J. B. Porter........ 1000 | versity pf Nebraska asked for sufficlent 4 ML, Glayton: A Prat 5.00 ptal cun be made Indepéndent of the Home h funds to buy a campus for the medical David "Linn . B | resat, ik e lockted ih OMana ¢ of the Friendless in the matter of preparing enry H. Krugo X s IPRS aha at|gana providing foed e John\ Redgwick 5.00| Twelfth and Pacific strestr. The sum 4 v e o0l M. A8 this is done at present all the food must bs Mrs. \F. M. Pond 5.00 | asked was $20,000, F W Rothery 500 000, carried from orfe bullding to the other and Anna §. Hedsges 3.00| Then Senator Ransom made the proposi- |y ygually served cold. Moreover the ra- Mrs. C. R. Bone 2.00| tion that if the state would buy this Mon. CB. Bons, .. 1 tions provided for the heaithy children in Mrs. 2.02| eampus, he knew & pillanthropist in Omaha | the home are not always such as wouid h 1. Ivl:;lv w;oumx ‘:wn‘m{w lt‘v \mfl'd "wl ortho- | be chosen with a view (o the altéred func- w. 1.0) | pedlc hospital 1as since been learned | ¢ ons of the children in the hospital.” ; p e spital. W. L. Robingon:! 1.0 that Dr. Gifford and his assoclate are will- | During the last two years 2% patients | B. Faye Prall 100 | N8 to make it $100,000, were recelved at thie hospital and 108 were ok g B S 10| The Nebraska hospiial is pne of three | trented. Eince the hospital apened 135 oper- Mrs. F. 8 De Vor 1.00 | meintained by States, the others being in |ations 1| WA Bow ations have been performed on children M’.",_.I_m:;:mmnn . }-j: New York and Minnesota. The Widner | which have had, ‘almost without exception, e vy T 10| Memorial Orthopedic hospital in Philadel- | good results. An important part of the Mrs. 3§ 1.00 | phia 18 perhaps the best In the United [work at the hospital Is the applying of :\"H‘\aur”llnl"“n ::\: Sta the Widners putting $6,000,000 Into | plaster paris dressings to maintaln a rec- & & Hieen. % | the mnstitution, which takes children who | ord of many of the deformities which are A woddont ;% | are cripples or have disease which is likely | treated. Omahans to Build Hospital if State Will Furnish Site| another | to make them cripples, does all that it can to correct the defects as well as training | them In the manual trainihg departments and school rooms. The chjldren who would go to the ortho- pedic hospital in Omaha would necessarily be there for long periods of time, as it re- quires years to borrect some defects which can be corrected. 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