# New-York Tribune, 20 February 1910, page 1: long jail terms for eight counterfeiters

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The New-York Tribune front page of 20 February 1910 reports that eight men were convicted of counterfeiting after a trial of twenty-five days and sentenced the same afternoon, Lupo to thirty years and Morello to twenty-five. A scan is stored here.

Front page of the New-York Tribune, Sunday, 20 February 1910. The story "Long Jail Terms" sits at the foot of the centre column. It reports that after "twenty-five days" of trial before Judge Ray in the Criminal Branch of the United States Circuit Court, the jury found the eight defendants guilty, and that they were sentenced the same afternoon to terms in the Atlanta penitentiary. It prints the sentence list, with Ignazio Lupo at thirty years and Giuseppi Morello at twenty-five, and describes Morello collapsing when sentence was pronounced. The story continues on page 3 ([page 3](/clippings/clip-new-york-tribune-1910-02-20-p3/)).

The headline gives 150 years in all; the body text, as the OCR reads it, gives a combined sentence of 130 years, and the OCR of the sentence table is partly garbled. This archive relies only on the two sentences stated elsewhere: Lupo's thirty years appears in his 1921 pardon warrant ([NARA 648066344](/items/nara-648066344-pardon-warrant-lupo-1921/)) and both appear in the Sun of the same day ([The Sun, 20 February 1910](/clippings/clip-sun-1910-02-20-p1/)).

The page calls Morello the "Leader" in its deck. That is the paper's word. The conviction, affirmed in 1911, was for counterfeiting ([189 F. 305](/items/courtlistener-calicchio-v-us-189-f-305/)).

## Sources

- Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030214/1910-02-20/ed-1/?sp=1