CRIME IN NEW YORK.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10408, 23 July 1912, Page 2

CRIME IN NEW YORK.

According lio Mt William Flynn, chief of the secret service of New York, the American metropolis heats Paris aad every other city for organised gangs of criminals, and London, by comparison, is the most virtuous city in the world. He considers that the apaches of Paris ore mere pnling infants by side of such monsters in crime as the Lnpomorelle band of blackmailers, counterfeiters, aad assassins, with headquarters in ISiew York. Tins caiig he describes as a sort of American “Mafia,” which, to his personal knowledge, is gnilty of 60 murders. “On an average,” says JSflr Flynn, “they kill one man a week aad there is no villainy they wlil not commit. Usually you fku) the victims of this gang ia a barrel or hidden la a drain, but 1 have fisceifcained that they ha v e a private burying ground, the locality of Which 1 hope to discover ” Flynn nays this terrible gang has influence with both political parties in New York, and to combat it, ” - _ T . A decision to investigate New York’s secret service prompted Mr Flynn’s outburst, to which the American press gives great attea tlon. Mr Flynn .is .indignant, because he says such an Inquiry mast lay bare the names of five members cf the Lnpomorella hand who have been working for him as investigators, and subj- ct them to assassination. “I would sooner rot in prison,” eays Mr Flynn, “before revealing their names. These men never make affidavits or appear aa witnesses bat they are high ia the councils off the jLapomorcUa crowd, and have given us, most valuable information, for which I am very thankful. John Lupo and Oologero Teranva are suegeoted as witnesses before the Congressional Committee to investigate Jshe seore? service. This is nothing 'but a covert threat Shat the identity of the Government’s informants will be revealed to the members of the Lupomorella band of assassins, blackmailers, and counterfeiters. ” Despite Mr Flynn’s protest,- the secret service will be investigated The charge made regarding “political influence” means that the leaders or representatives of the criminal 'gang have access to the favours of the palitioal bosses In New York, and their influence fn preventing arrests is admittedly great.