Record
New-York Tribune (New York, N.Y.)
1910-02-19
Page Page 4
New-York Tribune, 19 February 1910, page 4: counterfeiting case goes to the jury
CASE GOES TO JURY. Trial of Eight Alleged Counterfeiters Near End.
- Paper
- New-York Tribune (New York, N.Y.)
- Date
- 1910-02-19
- Page
- Page 4
- Headline
- CASE GOES TO JURY. Trial of Eight Alleged Counterfeiters Near End.
- Rights
- A United States newspaper published in 1930 or earlier. Public domain in the United States. The Library of Congress serves the page from Chronicling America.
Page 4 of the New-York Tribune, Saturday, 19 February 1910. The short item says the case of the eight men charged with counterfeiting would go to the jury after Judge Ray’s charge. It names Ignazio Lupo and “Giuseppi Morello, alleged leader of the band,” summarises the closing arguments of defence counsel William J. Byrne and Mirabeau Towns and of Assistant United States Attorney Abel I. Smith, and notes the maximum penalty Lupo faced.
The paper describes Lupo as “known among his countrymen as ‘The Wolf’” and reports him as having “confessed to a murder in Italy”; the Second Circuit’s account is that Lupo testified on direct examination that he had killed a man in Italy in self-defence (189 F. 305). The paper reports the prosecutor as speaking of “the terrors of Sicilian vengeance.” These are the paper’s words and a lawyer’s argument as summarised; they are quoted here as the record’s wording and are not this archive’s description of anyone.
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