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Show COLD FAXTS SPOIL "MYSTERY" STORY "The Mystery of the Bloody Foot, or the Black Hand at Home," might have been Ihe caption of a thrilling story that would have been written in the dally papers pa-pers today. If the rumors that were current cur-rent about the police station yesterday afternoon had been founded in fact. Word was telephoned to the Police department de-partment that the foot of a woman had been found near the Warm Springs. Visions Vi-sions of the work of a band of Black Hand fiends, holding a beautiful maiden prisoner for ransom, and dismembering her slowly In order to enforce their demands de-mands for hard and yellow gold, fiaahed through the minds of the policemen like an inspiration. A hurry-up trip was made to the vicinity vicin-ity of the find, where it was learned that a Greek had been taken to St. Mark's hospital and a foot had been amputated. His brother had been given permission to remove the foot, which he threw away after leaving the hospital. |