BLACK HAND OUTRAGE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 915, 7 September 1910, Page 5

BLACK HAND OUTRAGE.

GHASTLY TRAGEDY. FAMILY OF EIGHT MURDERED By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. Rome, September 5. A family, named Rovolinos, consisting of the father, mother, and six children, were horribly murdered at Pellaro, Cakbria. It is alleged the crime was committed by a New York member of the Black Hand Society, and that the. motive was . vengeance. . The weapon, used was an axo. A SHOCKING SCENE. PREVIOUS ATTEMPT AT POISONING. ; ■ ' - (Eee. September 6, 11.25 p.m.) ''!'...' ..Rome, September 6.. ■ A child's shrieks aroused the residents of Pellars, wlhich has consisted of a,collection of wooden houses since the earthquake. ' The townsfolk discovered a child-of five With its head almost severed lying on the threshold of the house, and within a baby of four months with its head cut in' two. .-'■ ''...''-'■ Rovolinos had been smprised ;while undressing. He had evidently returned home at two in the morning, and' had found; four masked . murderers hiding. His loaded rifle lay across a chair neariv.v.; ■ ■ ■•,^.-: : --!-;«-v The murderers escaped. Rovolinos was well-to-do and respectable. He had lived in America for some years, and ; it,:is alleged that while there he' had dealings with the Black-Hand Society. - v. ;. r

..An'attempt had been made to poison the family 1 a few days' earlier. : ''; ■