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The four Italians, alleged to be members of a local branch of tin*Black Hand society, are still in the city prison awaiting their hearings,which will take place Saturday after-• J . , •noon, none of their friends coming forward with the $f*00 bail for each of them. The officials realize that itwill be a hard matter to prove the guilt of the men arrested, as the foreigners rarely give testimony against any of their countrymen. The threatsthat are supposed to have been made were none of them in writing, but allwere verbal. Some of them, it is: #stated, were made when Mrs. Mike Altire was alone and she is unable totell what was really said, as the men spoke in their native tongue, whichshe cannot understand. The police are of the opinion that another Italian saloonist is at the bottom of allthe trouble. Thursday evening Joseph Santangeio, who is known as the Italian constable, telephoned to Chief Smith that he desired protection. lie was fearful that his housewould be blown up with dynamite by friends of the arrested men, who nowacous'1 him of giving them away. Norecord:; have yet been found showing that there is a branch of the BlackHand in the city, although the officers are confident that an organlza-! tion of some sort exists among tin* | Italians in this etty. The penalty for extorting money by threatening is very severe in this state, the son-:I tenee in i penitentiary being from j time to twenty-five years.
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Massillon Evening Independent
Massillon, Ohio, US
Fri, Feb 07, 1908
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