DYNAMITED BY THE "BLACK HAND.'
NEW YORK, Sept 27. An astonishing crime, as remarkable for its daring as for the escape of those against whom it was directed, was committed by the members of the Italian secret society, the "Black Hand," to-day. A five-story tenement house, m which nearly 100 persons were sleeping, was blown up by dynamite soon after daylight. The windows and the doors of the house we're shattered, and the entire frontage was shaken from the foundation, so that it crumbled away, leaving the apartments entirely exposed to the street on one side. The terrified inhabitants could be seen from the street clinging to the furniture and to the walls of the house m the belief that an earthquake shock had shattered their homes. The house is the property of a wealthy Italian banker named Ignacio Digivanm, who has for some time been under sentence of death by the "Black Hand.,.'. When he was interrogated by the police he was so frightened that he denied! all knowledge of threats which the secret society had uttered agamst him, and swore that he never received any warnings from the Society.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10818, 10 November 1906, Page 5 (Supplement)
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191DYNAMITED BY THE "BLACK HAND.' Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10818, 10 November 1906, Page 5 (Supplement)
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