Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1909 — TO HELP SLEUTH’S WIDOW [ARTICLE]

TO HELP SLEUTH’S WIDOW

Petroslno ' Sought the Deportation of 300 Italian Criminals. Albany, N. Y., March 16. —A special pension for Adelaide Petroslno, widow of Detective Joseph Petroslno who wa a killed in Italy, is provided In a bill Introduced by Senator Timothy D. Sullivan. According to a statement made in New York by Dr. Raphael Assulta, Petrosino’s former physician, one purpose of the lieutenant’s tri;vto Italy was to secure the deportation of 300 Italian convicts from this country. Dr. Assulta declares that Petrosino carried to Italy the names of 300 men who had been convicted of crimes in Italy and had been paroled in that country. These men had fled to America.