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Show BLACK HAIDER HAS CONFESSED CHICAGO, March 31. Plilllp Pur-purpa, Pur-purpa, v(ho confessed today that ho had written more than a score of blackhand letters ovor a blackhahd slgunlqro, tonight whs turned over to tho United States authorities. Secret service men will tr to determine whoro Purpurpa can uo connected with a recent letter written' to United Slates District Judge Landls, threatening threat-ening him witH tho vengeance or tho blackhand If Gianni Alongi, an Italian, Ital-ian, being tried for blackmail, was not acquitted. Tho letter to Judge Landis was fol lowed by the discovery near his desk of a harmless "bomb composed chiefly chief-ly of mucilage. Tho bomb at first was treated aa a joke, but later socrot service men declared they believed it was planned by tho writer of the letter let-ter In order to show his ability to reach the United States Judge with a dangerous bomb. Purpurpa, when arraigned before Commissioner Fole, was held In bond of $5,000. It developed during the examination of Purpurpa that James E Stuart, chief of the postal inspectors of tho Chicago district, also had receded a death throat in the same trial. |