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Show I CLUE TO BLACK HAND Police Think They Have It in Arrests Just Made. NEW YORK, Sept 23. In the arrest of three men last evening on board a Staten Island ferry boat, the police believe be-lieve they have at last obtained a clue to the mysterious Black Hand society which for years has terrorized local Italian citizens. Roundsmen Cahlane and Smith, who made the arrest, found on one of the prisoners a Black Hand letter which had not been mailed; two loaded revolvers, re-volvers, two stilettos and a knife. The roundsmen were In plain clothes and they saw Luglo Basllo and Elr-manclno Elr-manclno Comlsllo talking excitedly to a bootblack. The roundsmen questioned ques-tioned tho bootblack, who told them that the men said three other men had taken them to Silver Lake and had held them up with pistols, taking from them a silver watch and chain, and 520 in money. The men who had been robbed were warned, under penalty of death, to remain where they were for two hours. The three men left, and the two after af-ter waiting fifteen minutes, started back to the ferry. The men who had robbed them were found to be on board and when arrested everything that had been stolen from the two men was found. The men under arrest are Dec-imlo Dec-imlo Darmono, Glovannio Sancoro and Paulo Montelo. |