Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1886 — Universal Brotherhood. [ARTICLE]

Universal Brotherhood.

(4 / The great Italian confederation of counterfeiters was long suspected to have an agency in Venice, but a Venice paper assured its readers that the crooks had fled en masse, and found believers until it was discovered that the reporter of the paper was himself a member of the black-legged brotherhood. He was permitted to remain at large till he made his escape under circumstances suggesting a surmise that the detective, too, had taken the pledge of the league. A committee was then appointed to sift the bottom facts, when Commissioner Laporta suddenly took to his heels, and in haste forgot certain papers that completed the surprise of the public. For it now appears that in official circles I aporte’s connection with the crooks had long been an open secret, but that his arrest was deferred for the reason that Sig. Gerardi, the chief of police, wa« himself a member of the gang. — Prof. Oswald. The virtues of St. Jacobs Oil, as proclaimed by millions of restored sufferers, should induce everyone to supply his household with this great specific. It conquers pain.