Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1908-03-15 | Page 1 | Member of Black Hand Meets Death While Making a Bluff in New York

MEMBER OF bE BLACK HAND MEETS DEATH DEATHS I WHILE MAKING A BLUFF IN NEW YORK New York March 14 A well dressed dres looking Italian wag was shot to death In a street duel with two to men at atOne atOne I IOne One Hundred and Fourteenth street t tI I 1 nd First t avenue today The TIle two men ade their escape and have not been captured Believed to Be B Black Hand From stories told by several persons who witnessed ed the affray It I t Is believed that th dead man was a Black Blaek Hand and that his hia death was a result resu of an attempt to collect tribute from the themen themen themen men who afterward killed him or that ho be sought revenge upon one of the themen themen themen men he attacked The well dressed man who was a stranger in the tho neigh neighborhood neighborhood neighborhood which is In the Harlem Harem Ital Italian ItalIan ItalIan ian district had been seen there for tor reveral hours flours The Th stranger stationed himself at the tha corner of One Ona Hundred and Fourteenth street and FIrSt FI t aye ave I nue nu When hen two men wheeling carts I filled with bananas came along he heI started toward them The men stopped I and the stranger was heard to say Did you receive that message All Three Drew Pistols I Both men with the carts made an an answer an anI answer I Then the stranger drew a re I voler Tho The two men were equally equall as asi i quick The weapons were leveled at atthe atthe atthe the same mIne time The stranger fired and i it it If believed his shot struck one of ot his adversaries in the hand With the echo of the first shot the two men closed in fn on the stranger They caught his revolver hand and while one held It ft the other pressed a revolver close against the back Jack ot of the mans head and fired The man tell fell to the sidewalk dying For a moment the two men stood watching the tho death struggles of o otheir their victims Then they fled in oPP opposite opposite site directions b I