THE BLACK HAND.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1881, 15 October 1913, Page 7

THE BLACK HAND.

IN ITALIAN NEW YORK. BOMB OUTRAGE, By Telotrrapli—Press Association—Oopyrielit New York, October 13. A bomb explosion on East Side wrecked several buildings and broko glass everywhere for blocks around. Ail Italian grocery store, the owner of which recently received "Black-Hand" letters, was laid in ruins. There was much panic, 110 deaths. "During the first seven months of 1913," wrote Mr. Frank White in tho New York "Outlook" of August 1G last, "Italian criminality broke all previous records. It was noted in the newspapers that tho four bombs that blow out windows and doors at respectively 158 Eighth Avenue, 187 Elizabeth Street, 35 Stanton Street, and 53 Oliver Street, between 3.20 a.m. of July 20 and 1.25 a.lll. of July 22, brought the number of explosions in tho Italian settlements of the five boroughs sinco January 1 into tho 'nineties. _ Moro than sixty murders are Tecordcd in tho newspapers as committed bv Italians in New York and the immediate vicinity from tho beginning of tho year up to August 1. Two policeman who died in tho discharge' of their duty were among the victims. The first few days of August saw 110 let-up in tho activities of Italian criminals in New York. Early 011 the morning of the Ist the police captured four Italian burglars on a roof in West Broadway, after tho desperadoes had emptied their pistols at their pursuers. On the night of Sunday, August 3, two Italians were killed in a fight over a girl at Coney Island. Tho following night another policeman was killed in attempting to make the arrest of an Italian gunman in the Bronx." Many, perhaps most, of these crimes could have, been prevented had llio Major not "deprived New York of the services of her ablest servant." General Bingham's idea," says Mr. "White, "was to procure in Italy the penal certificates of as many as possible of tho Italian exconvicts who had come hore within the three previous years, and were therefore liable to deportation under tho law of 1907, and then to round thorn up and send them back to Italy, where they would Ire taken in hand by the Italian authorities, instead of returning them to tho ports whence they had embarked for America that woro in nearly all instances non-Italian, and from which thoy might readily return to this country." But General Binehani was dismissed owing to the hostility of Tammany politicians who had been frightened by his zealous campaign against vico and crime.