Timeline spans a century, 1857-1956

The Caged Wolves timeline has grown to three web pages and now includes data spanning a century of history - from the birth of Giuseppe Calicchio in 1857 to the latest possible expiration date of Ignazio Lupo's counterfeiting sentence in March 1956. (Amazing to consider that Lupo might have been imprisoned during the administration of Taft and released during the administration of Eisenhower.)

I've used a bit of color-coding to help visitors track down items not related to the Morello-Lupo counterfeiting operation. Examples: Items about Lieutenant Petrosino's assassination are shown with a light blue background. Events related to the conflict between the Terranova Mafia and the Camorra are shown with a light green background.

Source information is also provided for most items. Sources used repeatedly have been abbreviated in the table. Details on those sources are provided at the bottom of each page.

I made an effort to include many of the details of the gang's imprisonment. Some of the items shed some light on prison procedures of the time. Others are stories showing that the convicted counterfeiters were real people after all. A few of these items: The death of Giuseppe Morello's son Calogero during an April 1912 gunfight; Giuseppe Calicchio's efforts to find funding and support to help him build a perpetual motion machine; painful letters written to Giuseppe Palermo by his nephew Frank Minore.