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FRIGID VIGIL IN ICE BOXBut Detectives Captured Alleged ‘‘Black Hand” Agent.For Thirteen Hours Detectives Waited, with the Temperature Downto 20 Degrees.Special to The WuuMngtun Pont.New York, Feb. 16.—After hiding, they say, for thirteen hours In an Icebox, with a temperature of 20 degrees, four detectives of the Italian squad succeeded in arresting the alleged leader of the “Black Hand organization In Now York. He Is Glacchino Napoli, and was arraigned before Magistrate Mayo in the Jefferson Market Court on charges of extortion, blackmail, and throats agakist lire, being held for -trial.For two months Pietro Miano, a prosperous butcher at 211 Bleecker street, has been receiving letters demanding .$7 00, under penalty of having his shop and family blown to pieces with dynamite.The detectives got Mio.no to write a letter to the address given In the “Black Hand letters, aaylng that h© was willing to pay the amount demanded. They then cast about for a good hiding pLace. The ice-box, a structure twelve by fifteen feet, was hit upon, and at 6:30 o'clock yesterday morning the four policemen stowed themselves In It.The detectives hod a long, cold wait. Hot coffee was handed to them from time to time, and Miano gave them a couple of steaks during the day, hut even with plenty to eat and drink, they were not comfortable. Shortly after 6 o'clock Napoli entered, and began to price various meats. He was recognized as a fugitive from Palermo, who had a criminal record there, as well as a pretty bad reputation here.The suspect called the butcher to the bac(c: of the store, where he told him that he had come for the money for “the society/* The butcher produced an envelops in which the detectives had placed a number of one and two dollar hilla and handed it to the stranger, and the man
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Washington Post
Washington, Washington-DC, US
Sat, Feb 17, 1906
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