Show BLACK HAND SHOWS SIGNS Of f ACTIVITY Iff I LOCAL OCA CIRCLES Italian Who Vho Assisted Federal Federal Fed Fed- eral Officers Is MarKed Marh-d for Death The efforts efort of the tho United States secret Ie se so- cret service niro bureau working in the tue postal department to break hrak up lp the Ball Black Hand or organization of lawless Italians and nd Sicilians recalls time the arrest in Salt Lake City a few months ago ao of Francisco Fran Frau iso cisco Ciddio who ho as was charged r with wih having hay hav IC ing blown blon up lip a a. a hotel in Niagara Nia British Brith Columbia causing the death of a young pung woman the dau daughter of tho the proprietor of the hotel Ciddio fled ted from Niagara after aIer tIme the tle crime was committed find and wandered over oyer the greater part of the United Unite l Stat States finally securing employment near Salt Lake as a laborer on a 8 mirol sec ace tion crew orew The he office of United States le Marshal Smyth received advices to the effect that Ciddio was wa in the tho vicinity of Salt Lake ke I-ke City and nd search was instituted instituted in in- for him The officers were ero great greatly handicapped l in in their efforts to find the ru fugitive but iUt hit Unit United d States Marshal Is al Smyth finally located ocate hint him iD in inthe inthe inthe the city It aud and arr arrested std him Ciddio was working on a sewer ower lower trench gang gaug under an assumed name Tho Time information upon tipon which his arrest was based was furnished b by an Italian living in another part of the Timed Stales and whose identity or place ct d residence Marshal Marsha Smyth refuses to disclose A After fer th tha Vt ar of Ciddio ho was taken to Nia Niagara ara by Marshal Smyth and wa was turned o over r the authorities Iris His trial resulted i in Ia conviction con and he was hanged chits t Th i Letters A After the tile rest arrest of f Ciddio the Italian who was su itei teI pc t of hain having furnished furnisher the information rig load to the detection of the fugitive was threatened in anonymous momma lette letters with wih d cl death tb for his participation pation paton in th tha arrest Those These The letters leters do do- clam ed tb tint that t h he J was ivas al marked for death and that summary retribution would he be visited up-m up hint him for the thc betrayal of Ciddio This Thi Italian it id ia said slid appealed to the officers for protection and maintained main main main- tamed such care rare re regarding ardin his movements movements move o ments that the threats of vengeance which were believed to have emanated from the Black Hand were not carried into execution Local inspectors and United States Marshal assert that there is no information in fn in their possession at this time that would even en e remotely indicate indicate in in- in that there there is a branch or that there are agents of the tho Black Hand in inthis inthis inthis this ci city or state |