U.S. Officers Find $43,000 on Stowaway

New York and Chicago, 1920.
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U. S. Officers Find $43,000 on Stowaway

Flight of Chicago Saloonkeeper Foiled in New York.

Two months ago Sabestano Esposito closed his saloon, said he had received a Black Hand letter and vanished from Chicago.

A day or two ago agents of the Department of Justice, searching for stowaways in a liner about to sail from New York for Naples, plucked Esposito from the vessel's hold. They took from him $43,000 and a loaded revolver. He is wanted in Chicago, the Federal officials in New York asserted.

Chief of Police Garrity recalls that a few months ago he received a letter from Joseph Esposito, convict in the Joliet penitentiary, asking that search be instituted for his brother, Sabestano. Detective Sergt. Michael DeVitto was assigned to the case and succeeded in locating Esposito in a saloon in Chicago.

According to reports among Sabestano's intimates, he was suspected of participating in a recent robber of a wholesale liquor establishment.

--The Saturday Blade, Chicago, May 22, 1920, page 1.