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Show WORK OF BLACK BAND Explosion of Bomb May Cause Death of Many Sick Babies m New York, Feb. 6 Scores of people peo-ple were thrown into a panic and the lives of several tiny scarlet fever sufferers suf-ferers may be lost as the result of the-eDloslon the-eDloslon of a bomb outside tho vesll-bule vesll-bule of an east Seventy-nrtn tenement house early today. The police believe the so-called "black hand" is responsible respon-sible for the outrage, us tney say a' grocer namod Pacoloccl, who occupied a store on the ground floor of a building build-ing which was blown up, received threatening letters. Tacolocci denies this. The bomb was? found In tno vestibule by Police Sergeant Birmingham, whi saw the sputtering of the spark as he 1 was passing. The sergeant entered the hallway to investigate but when he saw the bomb was about to explode, ex-plode, fled to the street. He had hardly hard-ly reached the curb when the explosion explos-ion occurred. The vestibule doors were blown out. tho celling fell and the windows In the front or The building build-ing smashed. The tenants' rted to the street, carrying several children III with scarlet fever. |