After his retirement, former NYPD Homicide Bureau leader Arthur A. Carey penned an autobiographical book called, Memoirs of a Murder Man. A chapter in that book looked back at the 1903 Barrel Murder and police efforts to put the early Mafia organization of Giuseppe Morello out of business.
Carey’s account is noticeably different from the better known story told by William Flynn of the U.S. Secret Service (significant when you note that Flynn’s was published first in book and serial forms and was certainly available to Carey at the time he wrote his book). That Carey chapter, entitled “Murder While You Wait,” has been added to the website.
