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Show I It Must Be So, for the Noted Singer Defies His Black Hand Enemies. HAS PURCHASED VARIED ASSORTMENT OP GUNS Declares He Will Slav Like ! Dogs Those Who Wrote Threatening Letters. 1 NEW YORK, March C Enrico Cnruso. who Is known for a grcnt many things, among: ihem Ills singing, declared toduy that ho did not fear the Black Hand, that the agents 0f the dreaded Sicilian band had better be cureful and that he bought a tnvord cane, two pistols and a bowle knife to defend lilmsclf If the terrorists ter-rorists attempted to make good their threats upon his life In Hen of J15.000. I While the great Enrico was breathing , flery threats, clad In a pink dressing gown, two alleged Black Hand agents. . Antonio Cinclncota and Antonio MIslana, were being held In bonds by Magistrate Dooley until detectives can Investigate their records. Technically the men are hold on a vagrancy charge, but the police will try to fasten tho Black Hand threats upon them. Tho famous tenor was found in his pink bath suit at the Knickerbocker hotel, ho-tel, scanning an artillery catalogue. Two ' revolvers lay upon his dressing table. ' His sword cane stood for action nearby, and tho bowle knlfo glittered ominously. Breathes Forth Threats. "Cowards! Curs!" shouted that golden voice. "They think to scare the great Caruso. Ha? Tho fools! I laugh at them. Sec, I snap my finger! I cry, Ho, ho! Ho. ho! "Ah, but I shall split them upon my sword cane. I will till them full of bullets bul-lets from my revolvers. I will rend them with my knife. Dogs that they are! They will die If they attempt to separate Caruso Ca-ruso from his money. Caruso was splendid. Never before, not even upon the stage of tho Metropolitan Opera house, had he been seen In this heroic role. Laughing and waving his arms, he danced about his apartments lunging at imaginary adversaries, pouring broadsides from his pistols Into the unseen un-seen prostrate forms and finishing up artistically ar-tistically with the knife. "The great Cnruso will sing In Brooklyn Brook-lyn on Monday night." continued the hero. "Aye, Caruso will beard the dogs In their den. He does not fear to enter tho vipers' nest. "Ventre dc Beelzebub, how Caruso should like to meet the fiends! Ah! Gr-r-r-r! Caruso will shoot them down like files. Like cats he will slay them. "Often has Caruso received begging lot-' lot-' lers and, bollcvc me, dear sir, Caruso Is a generous roan. But never before i those deadly letters. "I receive the letter and I put him In my pockeL Caruso goes calling and while calling rends the letter. First Caruso he frown. Then he get whlto with the mighty rage. Then Caruso laugh aloud. He' Hal They cannot get anything on Cnruso." As the slriger talked he strolled through the arsenal and inspected his firearms. He has temporarily dispensed with his entourage of detectives except when he appears abroad. Today he strolled In t Fifth avenue for his constitutional and eyed all passers-by with keen glances. Friends Still Fearful. I Despite the heroic utterances today Caruso's friends fear that he will suffer evil results. He Is nervous and tho strain of being under death threats has worn off about half a pound of weight. Caruso today while hurling defiance nt i the Camorr.a. the Mafia and tho Black : Hand, showed that he Is somewhat conversant con-versant with those societies. For ln- stance, he told tho police that "C. D. M." signed to his first letter stood for "Cam-' "Cam-' pagnle do la Mor"t" or the company of death. The second letter bore the slg-! slg-! nnture which means the Black Hand company com-pany of death. The hero, armed to the teeth and fortl-1 fortl-1 fied by the friendly walls of tho Knlcker-1 Knlcker-1 bocker hotel, will continue to hurl down i the gage of battle". But to show that he is not trying to "shovc-a-da bluff. " as he expresses It, he Is going to sing In i Brooklyn Monday night, wearing n gun, i although the revolver will be concealed by j his dress. .' Tho letters which Caruso received and , which threw him Into a panic that shook j every scale of notes In his system, were i posted In Long Island City and Brooklyn. Brook-lyn. Tho first, sent March 1, bore a I Long Island City postmark. Scribbled on a dirty piece of note paper In a laborer's labor-er's hand, it ran, according to the translation trans-lation made today: "S. R. Caruso: Tomorrow at the hour of - you will be stopped by a boy and must deliver S15.000. Vou think right now to say anything to anybody. C. D. M." Neither of the Italinns arrested Saturday Satur-day could furnish ball, and both were sent to Jail. A stillollo found on MIslana brought an additional charge of carrying carry-ing concealed weapons against him. |