Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 195, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1912 — CHIEF OF CRIMINALS [ARTICLE]

CHIEF OF CRIMINALS

“Lupo the Wolf,” Closely Guarded in Federal JaiL Authorities at Penitentiary In Atlanta, Ga., Believe Prisoner Is Planning to Slay Sleuths Responsible for His Capture. Atlanta, Ga. “Lupo the Wolf,” leader of the most daring band of criminals In America, is the most thoroughly guarded prisoner In the federal penitentiary in Atlanta since the discovery of two attempts of confederates to communicate with him in his cell, planning, it is said, the assassination of the detectives who ran him down. Warden Moyer has been warned that Lupo and his band of assassins are plotting to take revenge upon Detectives William J. Flynn, District Attorney Smith, United States Judge George Ray and half a dozen others Instrumental in sending him to prison. Lupo ha# yet thenty-three years of a twenty-five year term to serve. In another cell is his chief lieutenant, Giuseppe Morrello. The prison authorities know that determined and persistent efforts will be made by the hundred-odd members of the gang still at liberty to get them out. • Dispatches from New York say that Lupo’s friends are bent upon revenging his conviction while awaiting an opportunity to secure his release. Lupo on his way to Atlanta vowed that before he diell he would "get" Flynn, who, with a score of subordinates, arrested him at a farmhouse at Highland, N. Y., where he was engaged in counterfeiting. When Morrello was nabbed a little later, after a desperate battle In a New York den, he, too, vowed vengeance on Flynn and the secret service men who tore the gun and knives from his hands and dragged him unconscious to the Tombs. More than all, Lupo wants revenge upon the spies who got Into the councils of the Mafia band. The prison authorities have taken precautions that no one shall see Lupo in prison who might even inadvertently carry some communication to him from the outside world. He Is never allowed to speak to any one, especial-

ly Morrello, unless a guard is with him. His‘ letters to and from the prison are carefully scanned. Every moment of his days and nights in prison he will be closely guarded and watched. Meanwhile, biding his time, somewhere in this country is a Sicilian who has sworn to have the lfe of Lupo the Wolf the moment the Mafia chief quits the Atlanta prison. Lupo killed this man’s brother in Sicily twelve years ago for refusing to join Lupo’s foreign vendetta, and then fled to this country. It is said that this Sicilian has told friends that he will come to Atlanta in the hope of finding an opportunity to slay Lupo in prison.