Secret Service daily report, New York District, about 8-9 April 1903: search warrants and the watch on Morrello and Lupo (T915 roll 109, pages 47-49)
Typed pages of the U.S. Secret Service New York District daily report from the week before the barrel killing: an application for search warrants for premises including those of 'Giuseppe Morrello' and 'Ignazio Lupo', and operatives' surveillance in a counterfeiting inquiry.
- Date
- 1903-04
- Kind
- case-file
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-12
- NAID
- 151173326
- Rights
- A record of the U.S. Secret Service (Record Group 87), reproduced on National Archives microfilm publication T915, Daily Reports of the U.S. Secret Service Agents, 1875-1936. A United States government work, public domain in the United States under 17 U.S.C. § 105. The National Archives catalog lists access and use as unrestricted; the images are marked "Best Available Image / Original Textual Records No Longer Exist."
These are three pages, stamped 47 to 49, of the Secret Service daily reports for the New York District, in the volume the National Archives catalogs as “William Flynn: Volumes 9-11 - April 1, 1903-April 30, 1904 (1 of 2)” (1,999 digital pages on microfilm T915, roll 109). William J. Flynn was the operative in charge of the district. Page 48 carries a letter dated 8 April 1903, and page 49 includes subordinates’ reports for 7 April and later, so the report is from about 8 or 9 April 1903, roughly a week before the barrel was found on 14 April.
Page 49, shown here, records that the writer applied for search warrants for a list of places, beginning with those of “Giuseppe Morrello” on Christie Street and “Ignazio Lupo” on West 40th Street, and including a saloon on Prince Street and a “Butcher Shop #16 Stanton St.” The same page records the writer consulting an Assistant United States Attorney about another counterfeiting case. The reports refer to persons under watch by number (#1, #3, #4 and so on) and describe a counterfeit-money transaction under surveillance. An index page near the front of the volume has an entry for “Morello, Giuseppe.”
The images are film copies marked “Best Available Image / Original Textual Records No Longer Exist.” Street numbers of homes are legible in the film image; this archive does not reproduce them in the text. The spelling “Morrello” is the report’s. These are an agency’s internal reports of what its operatives did and believed; they are not findings.
