Salt Lake Tribune | 1910-03-13 | Page 32 | Flees Country to Escape Black Hand

Italian Sells Out, Upon Receipt of Letter, and Leaves for Italy. CLEVERLY OUTWITS BLACK HANDERS TEMPORARILY Wile Disappears From City Soon After, and Sister Is Preparing to Flee. Dreading that delay would result in tho sacrifice of his wife's life and hia own, if ho remained in this country and rofused to comply with tho demands of a Black Hand letter, A. Burliui, an Italian, Ital-ian, who was tho proprietor of a fruit and confectiouory stand on tho southwest south-west corner of West Tcmplo aud South Temple streets, sold his business to M. iPasini. another Italian, and lett lor Italy last weeK. . Burlini received a letter signed hy the Black Hand socio'ty ou 3Iarch 2 demanding de-manding that he send to tho writer s address $500 within a week or sufl'or the penaltv of his -wife's lifo and his own. Burliui refused to divulge the name or the address of tho writer to his intimate friends, fearing that ho would jeopardize the lives of his relatives by so doing. Instead he sold his place of business to M. Pasini, who immediately took possession. Burlini disappeared from this city, ac-' cording to his iiilimalo friends, about ATarch 6, and his wife is said to have disappeared a few days later. Both aro said to have gouo back to Italy, but when they left tho city or what route they took to New York City is not known. Beatrice Componi, tho sister of Burlini 's wife, is still in the city, but arrangements-havo boon made for her passago to Italy within a few days. The personal friends of Burliui refuse lo discuss tlio matter of the letter, but the police have been notified and plain clothes mon are working on tho caso iu an effort to discover tho writer.