THE MORELLO TRIAL

Music by Syon (Thomas Nicosia) Prelude in Em. With most of the Morello gang members effectively detained, the trial date was set for January 26, 1910 in New York at the Houston Street Federal Courthouse. The defendants were 9 and judge George Ray presided over the jury. An elderly magistrate who had already tried counterfeiting cases. Lupo and Morello had hired the lawyer Mirabeau L. Towns for their defense. He was a highly qualified American lawyer, with the advantage of speaking in Italian.

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