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GENERAL NEWS.

Rebel Lot rs In Chingpu.

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The

THE BLACK HAND.

Mr. William J. Flynn and

His Adventures.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1913.

been arrested with members of his gang, they suffered and he escaped,

Mr Frank Marshall White has Hand in the World's Work." the "Morristown fives," because an interesting article an the Black He opens by telling of Vincenzo Lupo and Giuseppe Morello, and of Mr Will J. Flynn, now bead of He proceeds: the United States Secret Fervice.

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Three years later, a deluge of counterfeit five-dollar billeswamp Some 400 soldiers of Gen.

ed the Italian settlements of New" „Nyan's force fled from Kading to

York City. They were known as Chingpu on the morning of the

they were imitations of an jene 19th, says the "N. China Daily

of the National Iron Bank of Newa." They entered the city

Morristown, N. J. Mr Flynn, who and locted the Li Yaea Chu rice

took charge of an investigation, hong, the Yuan K'ang Pawnshop,

traced them back, the trail lead- To understand the situation it ing into Little Sicily again. Par and some other abopa, netting should be borne in mind that the saing his researches under cover, sum of $5,000. For the protection Italian crime" problem in New he discovered that Giuseppe De York and the rest of the United Primo, a grocer in Little Sicily of the city, the gentry have enlisted 200 troops colled the Paoan Force, the great wave of Italian immigra was importing a larger amount of States came into existence with and a friend of Morello and Lapo which, however, did not resist tion, beginning approximately olive oil than his business ecomod the rebels nor try to stop them in with the first year of the century, to call for. The alao now led to their looting excursion.

that has since brought into the the Custom House. Under the Profect of Chingon was a former country thansand of ex-convicts tariff lawolive oil may come into of the Mafia and the Camorra the United States by barrel at a attache to Gen. Huang Hsing's.

FOR SALE "LADBROKE." staff. His name is Wn Yen, heong more than 2,000,000 of lesser rate than in cane; it is No. 9 Conduit Road. Fine View having taken over office only patriots Morello and Lupo wore cana, being brought in from Italy Garden and Tennis Court. Ac- their honest and industrious com-therefore imported in bulk, the of harbour; 8 Rooms: 3 Bathrooms, recently. fle did nothing to prevent the entry of the rebela established bere before this influx empty to be filled for sale in this comodations for 30 Servante. into the city, but even paid $25 began, and were proficient in country. to each of them out of the public Hand crimes before that ferm signed to De Prime revealed rolls what are now known as Black

Investigation of the caps con- funds,

began to be applied to these of the "Morristown fives." The Alligator at Large in Shanghai.offences. Morello, indeed, had been counterfeiting plant was in Naples, An extraordinary find was known to the New York police Morello, Lupo, and De Primo, made laat week in the French for several years before he went with a dozen other ltalians who Concession at Shanghai. Accord into partnership with Lapo. The had notually passed the counter- ing to the N. China Daily maimed Sicilian had been arrested feis money, were arrested and family: suitable for two Bach- TOLET-Well furnished large room with board, English News, some coolies were employ for murder, kidnapping, extortion, again there was no evidence to be elors. Upper level, splendid view ed on municipal ground at Quai and blackmail at least ball a found against Morello-or Lupo, of Harbour; large Verandahe.- des Fosses, when, from among the score of times before his transac oither. De Primo was found Apply D.A.G. c/o herbage a small alligator emerg- ions i cantarfelt money brought guilty of taking part in the con- Telegraph." ad, snapping its jws. The ore him within the view of the Fe-spiracy to defraud, but Morollo ture was hardly more than four dqal Secret Service, but, though and his partner in crime went free feet in length, but its unexpected morally cetin of his guilt in and the others wont to prison. appearance was sufficient to give vory in-anco, the police had the men a momentary scuro, never be able to listeu a Soon, however, they plucked up

crime upon him." courage, and piuning it to the

Morello was a fugitive from ground by means of a long bam. justice froin Italy under a ton boo, smartly slipped a rope round year sentenca for forgery. He

a confederate waiting outside to discovered to be in circulation in its middle. Thus captive it was

was about forty years of age when

ascertain whether fortune or mis- Massachusetts, and simultane- taken to the Police Station, where he came to this country, rough in What is a journey more or fortune tafell him. The dete-ously Mr. Flynn's agents reported a tub of water formed its prison appearance and uncouth in man- less to the courts? Morello tive's forethought had cell for the time being, but, later ner, but aa intelligent and once said to a member of the rewarded by the sight of a little Throngh his former associates busa that Davis was in the country. on, M. Madier carried it off in his forceful rogue. The police bave Italian squad of the detective man with a red board on the op- Davis was traced to Revere, a motor car to give it a home in never found out how his right boreau who had him in custody. posite side of the street gazing suburb of Boston. A comfortable his garden.

arm had been crippled. In "It in a relief from monotony. It firedly at the door of the cottage sheltered a small but Rebel Leader Ordered to Leave tion in crime, his brain conceivet American pigs of lawyers and peared on seeing Mr. Flynn plant. Evidence was gathered capacitated for manual participa- might even be amasing if the bank. The sentinel had disap- well-equipped counterfeiting Chon Chi-mei has been definite- brought

the schemes that his lieutenants judges had a little wit to put me looking in his direction, and the against every suspicions acquaint-

10 fruition. ly ordered to leave the Settlo-about ten years younger, com- while they dispose of my case."

Lupo, on my mottle. But, no! I sleep detective had arrested the man in once of Davis, and in Decemt ar ment, under pain of arrest. It is plemented Morello.

the bank who had asked for ex- the place was raided. As the no secret that he is bere, though!

Meanwhile Mr. Flynn'a re change for the eighty notes, and back door was broken down a he cannot actually be placed. His was put into circulation among the constantly increasing. In January found them in the street,

A flood of counterfoit uioney putation as detective was who had declared that he had little man with a red board rush, method is to stay one night with humble shop-keepers of the poorer of the year before the issue of the Flynn had been unable to find against the muzzle of Mr Flyan's Mred into the kitchen and right up one friend and the next with parts of the city, many of them "Morristown fives," he had been the redt earded little man, but he revolver. anotherin quite a different quarter recently arrived Italians who were called to a bank in Grand bad made a mental photograph of and thus to put the inquisitive unfamiliar with our currency. off his truck.

Street in New York, the cashier him. The fivepound notes were We understand that he has now received an official workers in the Secret Service, that he was holding a suspicious officers of the Bank of England Mr Flyan, with some of his co- of which had telephoned him as perfect counterfeits as the notification, in accordance with was put on the case. the recent proclamation of the led to what is known to the police eighty five-pound Bank of Eng-watermark having been copied The trail locking man, who had offered had ever Exen, the celebrated Consular Body, that he must losve as "Little Sicily," and into the land notes for exchange. Mr. almost exactly. the precincts of the Settlement home of Morello, and he and Flynn had approaced the bank

several of the men who bad been slowly and cautiously, with the when John Davis was ried in In the fall of the same year, passing the spurious bills were idea that if the man with the London for forging Bank of taken into custody. As on all the English money was a professional other occasions that Morello had criminal he would doubtless have

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within a specified period, other wies he will be arrested and such action taken as the Consuls think desirable." China Presa.""

From that time until their final arrest in January, 1910, they were continually undor the surveillance of Secret Service agente, except for brief period during which their whereabouts were generally known.

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