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puMa- THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MARCH L't,.l- 1 'JiJi 28, 1909. WORK UF NOTED DETECTIVE life Starlet of Joe Petroiino, Alias inated at Palermo. ZEAL IN EUmOlfO DOWN CROOKS lfstat1 ttIc ! n " -i e.jtr Uck Holmes" In .(Tln SIs. -terlee of CrlmeCB'.ipla oa lastaacc. Little Ones Who Sang That the Church Fund Might Be'Enhanced ..II.. n. .ii ... ... ... i.-i-. ...I I,,.,.,, i ..., ., m. in.... ..... ...... i. .in. -s-" - . . , ;-. . : - 2 ' i 1; I I 1 ;H f 1 1 ,1 The assassination of DetctWe Jo Petroslno of New Tork to Palermo. 810111?, whither ha was sent to Investigate th operations of Italian and Slcllllan criminal oeletlcs, la deeply regTetted by the police defarttnent and the Italian residents of the metrcrtHle. New Tork papers are a unit In declaring the detective waa a remarkable man in his Una of work, fearless In the dlsehsrlre of hie duty, and one of the In valuable men In the service. A few of his achievements rival the deeds of "Sher lock Holmes." . On of the Incidents of hla career recalled by associates was the fact that six months before the assssslnetlon of President Mc- fcJnle, In 1571, Petroslno sent word to Warbinrton that there waa a plot afoot to kill the president. The detectlre had Obtained thla Information while he was In Paterront N. J., investigating the aa arch 1st colony tere, at th time It waa discovered that the plot which resulted In the assassination of Kin a; Humbert had been developed In lfat rlty. " " Followlnnr Slender Clew. A case com pa rat Velv recent, which well Illustrates how skillfully Petroino oould pick u a criminal trail and how tirelessly ( he could follow It, was that or a homicide Committed in Van Cortlandt park. Ob the morning of Auguet II, !&$. was found there the body of a mtn sla'.n, with thirty-six tab wounds. The surgeons held It was that of an Italian, who had been a man of oulture. Petroaiao idld them' th mur dered man had been laborer and that he had probably been a native of Southern Italy. It looked like a particularly difficult tat to unravel, but Patroslno discovered, in examining- lhat .part of the1 park near where the body bad been found, a amall serep of sotted paper lying In a clump of bushes. It had been trampled repeatedly by those who had gone over th around KheSd of him, and It waa ao begrimed that thl tut', writing on It waa deciphered with glfliculty. t The detective finally made out the name "Babbato Olulo," and. the address, 'Box gift, Larnbertvllle, N. J." Though there Waa nothing to Indlcat any connection between the crime and the scrap of paper, lav that the nam was that of an Italian, petroslno went straight to Lambertvllle. There he learned that Olulo was working on th Pennsylvania railroad at Stockton, vera) miles away. k When he had found his roan Qltsio ad mitted that ho had written the nam on the paper. He said he had given It to his frlind Antonio Trcaielo, who had gone to New York on th loet pay day with $400 or $800. Glizto, who waa brought back to this city by th detective: Identified . the body Of the dead man as that of Troalelo and tdd the pollc .h had hrd that Troalelo ' bad left Larnbertvlll with Antonk) Strollo, gnotber of the pang of rallroM laborers. fie also remembered that when Strollo turned he had a wounded hand. f Hurrying back to Lambert vtUe. Petroslno while at the railroad atatloi! taw a man approaching on a blcyolo who waa an Ital ian and who carried ono hand bandaged. etroslno questioned the bleycl rider and . " . a.u.l . -f th. vaurv nftn ' ..?Cs.isS Vf - - ; V,-.;1 i - . -v.-C v ' - ) 'Ni ".--;---S v-' !-,..' .'V- i ,i..i.,i......l fcrlBSnlil 111 illlSlStlSI GROUP OF TOUNO FOLKS WHO TOOK PAIIT IN CANTATA AT DIETZ MEMORIAL CHURCH. waa aoon convinced h wa th very 'snan he waa after. He brought Strollo back to New Tork and oonfronted him with the body tn tke morgu. To use Petrcslna's own words, "he Just shivered, like this, and refused to look at it. 1 was watching him cloeoly and I said to myself then, you're guilty, you ra CM.1 " Btrt)tlo afterward confessed the crime. He told how h had written to Troalelo let ters' purporting to oome from the latter's brother and Inviting hint to com to Ton. Uers. The brothers had not met for years ni Btrollo bad little trouble to luro his victim into th park, where be waylaid and killed him It wu the soiled bit of crumpled paper, trodden under foot, but recovered, by th trained Intelligence, that promptly followed tlie mi ager elu It afforded, that led to th ctiminjl'e cayture- , . Loss Cfcusa Rewarded Natalo Brogno was found dying from a stib wound In the back, at Baxter and Leonard streets, In July. USS. There had bean a saloon row and Angelo Carbon! wae arrested, convicted of the murder and sen- Uneed to death. After th eonvlcttoa of Cttoonl. Petroalno received Information that, although Brogno had been fighting with Carbont, th atab wound which caused death had been given by a man named Ceramello. who waa th father-in-law of carbonl. and who had treacherously out Brogno in the back as be reeled from th effects of a first blow given by CarbonL "So I started out to get Ceramello," aald Petrostno, tn narrating th story. "I got trace of him la Jersey City, but he got away ahead of me. I followed him to FlllUdulphta and then to Mtllertown, In Delaware, but always arrived Just too late to find htm. Next I heard he was la Mon treal, so to Canada I went. Ther I heard Ceramello had moved Into Novo Scotlo. Ther 1 missed him again and finally fol lowed hla trail baok her to New Tork. Her I lost all trace of him. ' "On day, nearly a month after X had first started after Ceramello, I waa stand ing on the corner of Kllaabeth and Mott streets, when I saw his oouslfc. He knew me, but he didn't see me. I trailed the cousin into th Bronx and aaw. him go Into a house. I watched that house until I o'clock in the morning, when I decided th snan had gone to bed and I wnt to a place nearby and alept until 8. Then I ' got back on watch, followed my man down and saw him buy a ticket for Baltimore. I telephoned headquarters I waa going out of town and then I bought a ticket tor Baltimore, too. ' "1 was afraid I might be recognised. At that time I wor no moustache and I pulled a tale beard out of my pocket and put It eo. Ypu couldn't aee my face at all iter that and my beat friend would n-t bar known me. In Baltimore my mar went to Corcoran alley let me aee, that waa about I o'clock in th evening. Oh, I should have aald that Ceramello, I had beard, waa passing under the heme of FUmU. Well, hla cousin goes Into the house aad I stayed outside ao as not to scar them, t was out at I o'clock th next morning trying to get the local chief of pollc to give me a man to go with me aad arrest Ceramello, but It a too early and the chief aald I must wait till th de teotlre came in. "Bo I went back te the house alone and knocked on the door. M 'Come In' someone aald. ' "I went In. There were three men aad a woman oa my left and a man leaning over a atov on my right. He snswered the ' description I had of Ceramello. " 'Anybody III her?' I asked. 'I'm from lb health board and I hear you'v got statu pox.' Then I turned t th snan by th stove What's your name? Flonl. Come here. There was an axe stsndlng against the wall and as I spoke I kicked it sway Ith 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. I brought him back to New Tork and h? was tried, convicted and sent to prison for life, while Carbonl was pardoned." Didn't Ceramello resist when you seised him?" somebody asked. "I suppose, though, you had your pistol In your hand." "Pistol? Why should I? Petroslno re torted, "H was fifty-two yeare old and onlv about five feet two Inches tall. No, 1 didn't take my gun out of my pocket. But, let me tell you one thing, I thought those people knew mo and so I wore a false beard. Then I found that none of them knew what X looked like. That was enough for me in the whiskers line. I wear only my own now." Dlsouselng the hasardous character of hla work. Lieutenant Petroslno once aald: There are many who would like to kill me and who would do so. If they had tho chance. But the fact that I am alive means that I don't give them that chance. I never go Into a place without figuring how I am going to get out of It. . And I have friends down here. I am not going to 'get in a corner If I can help It, and I. don't expect to. Of course there is al ways the ohance, though; that Is a part of thla business and you have to take It." Ho Knew the Underworld. Petroalno knew the under world of New York like an rpen book. When It suited his purposes to adopt a disguise he was ad adept at the art. doff changes mad hlra a laborer, a prosperous padrone or a flashy young sporting 'man. Thus he penetrated the lnmoat secrets of the batk rooms- of Mulberry, Mott and Elisabeth treats, thoae or th Twelfth Street Little Italy and the newer Italian section on the east side of Harlem. He eat and sipped red - wine while cunning murders were planned Within earshot. He knew the ear mark of every section of his native coun try and oould often tell by Inspecting the aoen of a crime whether its perpetrator was a Sicilian, Neapolitan or oame from the banks of the Tiber, ne knew all their dialects. He was untiring In the pursuit, and never forgot a crime that balked him. Thus It csme about that the chief feature of plot making waa to devise a way of keeping the trail from the keen eyes of "Joe" Petroslno. This man who so well rerved his adopted city was born In southern Itnly forty-four years ago. He was brought to New Tork by his parents In 1869, and was educated In the public schools here. Hla father was a merchant tailor. -I X UP-STATE IN ON THE FUND Schuyler Woman Gives Hundred Dol lars Toward Child Savls; Institute. Four hundred snd twenty-two dollars was added to the Child Saving Institute bu'ldlng fund Tuesday by the charitably In clined of Omaha and vicinity. The vicinity moans a 'X0 donation which was given by Mrs. Chauncey Abbntt cf Schuyler, Nth., who evidently recognises the vnst amount of good tho Institution is doing for Omaha and the surrounding country. The additional donations were; Previously acknowledged $36,640.80 Mrs. Chauncey Abbott, Schuyler Neb Dr. A. C. Stokes W. t. Williams Mrs. W. D. Williams , Mis. J. B. Porter Mrs. Clayton A. Pratt David I.tnn Henry H. Krugor John Redgwlck Mrs. "F. M. Pond F. W: Rothery Anna S. Hedges Mrs. C. R. Bone Mrs. C. L. Dun (ley Cash g Q i w. Q."Fi'cxd!. !!!!""."!" W. L. Robinson Mrs. M. L. Stone -. B. Faye Prall Laura M. Kenost Mrs. F. S. De Vor W. A. Bowman May Tronson Mrs. F. A. Sullivan Mrs. J. J. Lanktreo Arthur C. Groetschel.... A. R. Hlntoon 8. R. Savlne Total 100.00 100.00 100.00 60.00 10 00 S.no 6.00 6.00 6.00 6.00 6.00 s.no 2.00 2.00 1 "1 1. 1.0 1.00 1.00 l.no l.OO 1.00 i.m 1.00 l.oo l.oo l. Of i.oc .50 Tr.,9f5:.3f Ofnahans to Build Hospital if State Will Furnish Site Dr. Harold C. Olfford and another Omaha man will give $100,000 toward the erection 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 aent to the institution may learn trades and to do work whloh will make them self-supporting. The plan of the Omaha men Is much broader than at first supposed. Nebraska has a small orlliopedlo hospital In connection with the Home for the Friendless at Lincoln. Dr. J. P. Lord of Omaha Is superintendent. He has been doing a good work in limited quartera and some training Is given the children ad mitted to the institution, but It Is Impossi ble under existing comllilohs to give them anything like the training which Dr. Olf ford proposes to make possible If the legis lature accepts the proposition. The matter came to light when the Uni versity of Nebraska asked for sufficient funds to buy a campus for the medical department, which is located In Omaha at Twelfth and Pacific etreetr. The sum asked was $20,000. Then Senator Ransom mad th proposi tion that if the state would buy this campus, he knew a philanthropist in Omaha who would give $80,000 to build the ortho pedic hospital. It has since been learned that Dr. Olfford and hla associate are will ing to make it $100,000. The Nebraska hospital Is pne of three maintained by states, the others being In New Tork and Minnesota. The Wldner Memorial Orthopedic hospital In Philadel phia Is perhaps the best In the United States, the Wldners putting $6,000,000 Into the Institution, which takes children who are cripples or have disease which Is likely to make them cripples, does all that It can to correct the defects as well as training them tn the manual training departments and school rooms. The children 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 correct some defects which can be corrected. While the surgeons are usirg their skill to make th children rer feet, the plan of Dr. Gifford is to give them at ' the same time a training which will erable them to earn their own living when they leave th Institution. "I think th manual training In an ortho pedio hospital Is very desirable," said Dr. J. P. Lord, In speaking of the work. "It Is commendable that the children should receive an education while they are In the hospital and wo hope to see the offer of the Omaha man accepted." In his annual report to Governor Sheldon last November Dr. Lord made this recom- meristlon: "It is urged on the Board of Public Lands and Buildings that during the cnmlng blen- r.lum provision be mad wttereby the hoe. p tal tan be made Independent of the Horn of the Frlendlets In the matter of prepar.ng and providing food for our patients. As this Is done at present all the food must be carried from one building to the other and Is usually served cold. Moreover the ra tlons provided for the healthy children in the home are not always such as would be chosen with a vew to the altered func tons of the children In the hospital." During the last two years 230 patients wrre received at the hospital and 108 were treated. Since the hospital opened 136 oper ations have been performed on children which have had, almost without exception, good results. 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