A DASTARDLY CRIME.
HOUSE SET ON FIRE. EIGHT PERSONS BURNED TO DEATH. "BLACK HAND" OUTRAGE. United Presa Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyrißht, Received May 3, 8.35 a.m. NEW YORK, May 2. Some Italians, living in a tenement house in New York, occupied by twenty Italian families, refused a demand by the "Black Hand" Society for a thousand dollars. The "Black Hands" thereupon set fire to the house. Eight persons were burned to death, including five children.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3180, 4 May 1909, Page 5
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75A DASTARDLY CRIME. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3180, 4 May 1909, Page 5
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