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Show A"rfHB confession of a condemned W'l -murderer sing sinS nas c'. ML vealed the. existence of a-re- v..., .TWDarkable state of affairs in West- ! fI,;ester County, New York. Westchester contains the Summer i ffles of more multi-millionaires M.ikn any other county dn the country. jl'Ii palatial mansions and extensive meiates have concerted its hills- and J 6JS nto a succession o private J8 of the most luxurious char- To mention only a few of the more wouplcuous examples of Westches-jBw Westches-jBw wealth, the estates of John T. IWockefeller, William Rockefeller and UEkn Gonld at Tarrytown, the Ise-BB Ise-BB at Davenport's Neck, Frank ,S!?I0P and 0Uver and Borden Har-mmm Har-mmm at Mount Kisco and the Con- -MRtijles at Mamaroneck might be Swilled. A complete list would fill 'mt7 columns of this newspaper. Itaov aPPears from the confession ;vjrve referred to and from the offi-'mW offi-'mW Investigation which followed It MSS" BidQ by side wlth a11 evi" .55fs of enormous, wealth and cult-e cult-e flourIshed conditions of bar-MiM, bar-MiM, thQ Jlke of which have prob-W& prob-W& exlstcci since the Middle uiS C011nt37 "as for years -been ln-WJJW ln-WJJW with Black Hand gangs. Evl-ef0f Evl-ef0f thelr Tork nave turned up S to timo 'ln 016 shape of Enmiiilated corPses of their vic-mt&a- v y of Lhe& grewsome flnds W&ftl'.r1 beeu made on John D. nTelIer'8 Tarrytown estate. MtS the 'investigation of the JMferft er s ConfeS8ion the exact na-jKl.01 na-jKl.01 the machinery used iby the Start Aends in their work of JK. er5 torturo' arson and blaclanall "jKSi B-usPecte-ML ,re Was a rumor, for Instance, pla the very heart of Westches-jKf0 Westches-jKf0 there was a house, chris-K1 chris-K1 7 01(3 llice "Tho House of a jmand Murders," in which prac-jMhw prac-jMhw a of t1j crimes committed Ke name of the Black Hand were if'if not carried out. iBta? hous. it was said, was the StT,art,ers of a suns operating frL.y ln Westchester County but IBw , ut the country at large. 1jMlQ "itended victims were lured, -9th 6 ,' robbed and done to death. ,fcLCe,ll2'r and backyard of this er-houso -were believed to toe Wpfil WMth the,r remains. iMtL ?gatIons ade within thepast 45t- ks E5ve startling conflrmatlon M S17 of reports. JHftftn 0nIy baB "Tho House of a IfKJJr1"1 .Murders" been located, but sKu the cellar have been found fl00ka from which it was said Hwifh1 Were stmng by the thumbs, imS spades and picks of a gang workmen under tho direction of gy coroner have (brought (forth a 'tBEm quIcWimo which it is be-W be-W lW0ntaIua human remains. "WtnS TCrDlore' tne authorities have 'Jmktj Qt a cavo not more than a quar--BriaJalle frora this house and on 'Suf a axwllIcn leads to UockefeUer's 'WSf ocantico Hills which was lMer Y tlle gan aB a council cham-Wfc.-.'.11 the Summer time. At its tHfaW,! Btands a tree in which are ' fcd over ii pound oi leadtt. 4 earing disnce of -the rich MrjyJS"' and cultured guests at John D. Rockefeller's country place, men were '0 tortured and murdered." (And Above) How the Camorra, the Notorious Secret Society of Naples Upon Which Our Black Hand Gangs Are Modelled, Marks Its Victims. Similar Cruelties, It Is Alleged, Were Practised by Westchester's Black Hand Gang in "The House of a Thousand Murders." The Stair-Case Upon Which Fil-Iippo Fil-Iippo Carido Was Shot to Death by Fellow Black Handers After He Had Been Lured There by Concetta of the Red Hair. and fired two shots at the fleeing murderer, hitting him both times, but he continued- his flight and escaped for the time being. Ho waB apprehended appre-hended at PortchoBter the sameday. This man was Pletro Rebacci. He was tried, convicted and sentenced to death. It was he whose confession led to the investigations which have been made iwlthin the past few weeks. But to return to the narrative. The day after Marro's death Salva-tore Salva-tore Marro, his father, applied to tho New York police for protection, pointing out that a year b iore one of his sonB had been poisoned by Blaok Handers; then Carido, his nephew, had been murdered, and now his son Tony had met the same fate. He-was turned over to the Westchester West-chester authorities and in the course of a few hours he told enough about the workings of the gang to warrant wholesale arrests. Within a few hours Sheriff William C. Doyle rounded up RaefTele Bova, Charles Bomfoara, Santa Nostra, Giu-seppl Giu-seppl Romeo and Fortunate Borneo, and warrants were issued for Francesco Fran-cesco Filestro, Bduardo Buetta and Bttera Treppepp'i, all oharged with the murder of Carido. Bova h&B eince been convicted of murder In the second degree and is serving his sentence in Sing Sing. vU, For years tho Italian inhabitants throughout Westchester County had been paying tribute to their lawless fellow-countrymen who oporated under un-der the dread n.irae of tho BiacK Hand. No one knew just who composed com-posed 0 IJut a grov.p accus Digging Up the Cellar of Charlie Bombaras Saloon, Said to Have Been the Black HandJs Headquarters, to Find the Remains , of Victims Alleged to Have Been Buried There. To 'the;Right of the Picture May Be Seen Two Spikes Which, According to the Confession of One of the Black Handers, Were Used to String Up the Gang's Victims. tomed to meet at Charlie Bombara's saloon were generally (believed to be the ringleaders. According to Salvatore Marro and Joe Sldera, an eye-witness o'f the incidents surrounding the Carido murder, the deaths of Carido and Marro and "possibly of several other nameless Italians whose mutilated bodies were found from time to time in the vicinity, were the direct result of troubles which had arisen in the gang over Concetta. Concetta of the Titian Tresses, she might have been called, for those who knew her declare that her locks were of the hue made famous by the great Venetian painter. Concetta was only twenty at this time, although it is said that when Bhe arrived in this country, a couple of yeara before, her husband accom panied her. Her beauty made her a widow before she was twenty. Attracted At-tracted 'by it, this gang is believed to have decoyed tier husband to Fish-kill Fish-kill and there made away with hlra. At any rate, the gang forced her to participate in their crimes, and she must have proven a valuable asset, for Carido Marro, Bombara and fPreppeppi were constantly in dispute as to her "ownership." Carido wanted her for himself alono. He fled with her to New York. The gang sent for him and demanded the return of the girl. He fled with her to Flshklll, He was again threatened "with death unless he brought the girl back to White Plains where all might profit by h9r charms. Carido decided to return. A meeting meet-ing was held In Bombara's cellar the cellar of tho house which the (police Have since inferred to as "The House of a Thousand Murders." At this meeting it was decided that Trep-peppl Trep-peppl should take Concetta in charge. Carido demurred but ultimately acquiesced. ac-quiesced. A- few weelis later, however, Concetta Con-cetta asked hira to run off with her again. Concetta was living at No. 74 Bronx street at the time a llttlo shanty a stone's throw from Bombara's Bomba-ra's house. Under the directions of the gang, Concetta arranged that Ca-rlda Ca-rlda should call for her at midnight provided he saw a liandkerchlef in her window to indicate that the coast was clear. Carido agreed. Accompanied by Joe Sldera, a friend, Carido waited and watched the little window on tho night in question. The ctory of what followed has been told by Joe Sldera in court. At midnight the handkerchief was displayed. Carido approached the shanty and ascended the steps. The door was open. He entered. A flight of seven steps led to Concetta's room on tho second floor. Carido mounted the etalrs. Idera heard the report of a revolver and a craBh as of a man falling downstairs. Through tho window in which tho handkerchief still hung S.ldera saw Bova, He appeared to.:lbe rising from the floor. A, moment or two later he saw Bova, Bombara and several others now Ain. -jail awaiting trial emerge fromthVre'ar of Concetta's Con-cetta's house. Theypassed him as he stood trembling mthe shadow of a nearby stoop. This happened a month before Ca-rldo's Ca-rldo's body was found in the sewer, a few hundred feet from Concetta's house. Subsequent examination of the house revealed that Carido must have been shot as his head reached the level of Concetta's floor. New plaster on the wall of the staircase suggested how the (bloodstains had been concealed. The inference obtainable ob-tainable irom all tho testimony was that Bova lay on the floor of Concetta's Con-cetta's room and sent a bullet crashing crash-ing into Carido's skull at a distance of less than a foot as tho unsuspecting unsuspect-ing Black Hander came to keep" his tryst. At any rate, Bova was con-vioted con-vioted of murder in the second degree de-gree and is now serving his sentence, Concetta disappeared almost im mediately. According to Marro's friends, Marro objeoted to the gang's treatment of his cousin, Carido, and his hostility was the signal for his own fate. His death a ' year later, after several previous attempts, represented rep-resented the execution of the gang's decree. All these facts appeared soon after Marro's murder. The additional information in-formation which has been obtained through the confession of Rebacci, Marro's murder, involves other crimes alleged to have been committed com-mitted by the gang. According to Rebacci, Bombara's cellar was used as a combined torture tor-ture house and cemetery.' He declared de-clared that two spikes would be found driven into one of the beams in the cellar ceiling, and that these, were used 'in' the torturing of the gang's enemies and victims. Investigation revealed, tho existence exist-ence of these spikes. They are shown in one of tho photographs on this page. He also said that Concetta was murdered by the gang and burled in the cellar. Coroner lies had a force of men excavating this cellar foi several days, and discovered a mass of ' quicklime throe feet below the surface in which it is believed are human remains. Dozens Si other victims, Rebacci declares, were lured toy Concetta to the gang's head'quarters and done away with. In tho Summer the cave on the Tarrytown road was used as the gang's meeting place, he declared. There they practised marksmanship. An Investigation reveals a tree in which over a pound of lead bullets are imbedded. There is an astonishing corroboration corrobora-tion of many of the" most, uncanny incidents of Robacci's confession. Many of them it is impossible to confirm. con-firm. His statement that the gang's operations were not conflned to "Westchester "West-chester County is believed by the authorities. Crimes over all the country were planned there. Perhaps Per-haps It justifies them in referring io Charlie Bombara's house as "The House of a Thousand Murders." j i f I a same crimes, auu uuee iwa uuuwi- jjj Indictment but still at large. jj 1 The girl 4n the case was known as in Concetta of the Red Hair. From ell 1 1 accounts she was of a very beautiful : w type. She was only twenty years old i k when she attracted the attention of i the gang and was forced to become i fj8 one of its most useful members. It i ah was she who was used as a lure to i bring Intended victims to the torture j chamber of the gang. jHi Tho story can best be told chrono jjf j logically. if jjj In February, 1912, the mutilated body of Filllppo Carido was found in jjjj g i a sewer about 700 feet from Bronx Sa'fl street, White Plains. His head had M B been nearly shot off. Although he g a was known toy the police to have ffli it been one of the gang which met reg- tain ularly at a house on the Tarrytown road run by a man named Charlie "i 1 Bombara, there was no clue obtain- j ':yaj able at the time as to why he had .'H been murdered. . I Some two months later, while Tony H Marro, a cousin of Carido and a mem- H ber of the same gang, was passing 1 H the White Plains railroad station he was shot through the cheek by a lad i -.H of nineteen years. The assailant was H a complete stranger to Marro and ' H would give no reason for the atr j templed murder. He was convicted i 'H and sent to Elmiro. r H Two months later another attempt '; was made In 'broad daylight to kill Marro. The shots went wild. Marro was told by the police that bis safety L lay only in flight, but he decided to KJ remain. If the Black Hand were ICi' after him in earnest, he explained, tjl.; there was safety for him nowhere. 'r ; He preferred to die among hla jf; . ,i friends. ! Nevertheless he was prevailed upon g.l V 3 to provide himself with a body- ; j, ' ; . guard. Joe Marro, a cousin, was em- C" v ' ployed in that capacity. Tony and : Joe worked In the same lumber-yard, j go that It was not difficult for Joe-to -f ' -3 keep almost constant watch on his ':."! j doomed cousin. Joe kept a loaded j automatic revolver on his work : i Trench. V; On February 27, 1913, when the &' 5 '. quitting hour came, Tony started for y'li : home, with Joe following fifty feet . 3. behind. Hardly had Tony reached f 1- tho street than a shotgun blazed t . : j ; forth from a hole in the fence, barely 5h ; ' 13 six feet behind Tony's back, and lf'j 5 twenty-eight half cartridges found 5 ' their mark. Tony was killed instan 'i'.j '?neou8ly, . ' ' $'3 Marro ran back for his gu f 15 |