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Show uu 1 1 ALIA iu They Must Rid Chicago of Their Murderous Countrymen j Chicago, April 1. With the confession confes-sion of one Black Hand agent, the announcemenl, of. another threat against a government official;- James" E. Stuart, postofflce inspector, and spurred on by the long list of recent Black Hand crlihes, the Italian people peo-ple themselves threaten to put a stop to the lawlessness. A reflection of the vlows of tli3 many Chicago Italians is seen in an article which appeared j today in L Italia, leading Italian news-paper news-paper in Chicago The article says: "An epoch ot blood, of cruel slaughtering, slaugh-tering, of ferocious vendetta, Is what the Chicago Ttallan Is going through jhst now. Until a short time ago, crimes committed were In almost all cases duo to passion Today the killings kill-ings are not committed to avenge the honor of a wife, of a sister or of a daughter The Hand does not seek the knlfo or revolver in paroxysm of passion. The crimes are committed almost In all Instances In the name of tho Black Hand, or an organized crime. The motive is money. "Naturally, the frequent and atrocious atro-cious crime seriously aro impressing tho American people, as well as people of other nations, in our disfavor, and they are liable at any moment to lose patlenco and resort to acts of violence vio-lence The massacres at New Orleans and Tampa are not forgotten in Chi-cngo. Chi-cngo. "It Is necessary that the Italians themselves, for their own self-respect and for their own protection, organize themselves to liberate the colony here from the criminals bearing its name." nn |