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Show AIIc jed JJcmt crs of DIack , v hand ASccicty Under : Arrest in Hew Ycrk. JIEW tORK, Aug. 12. Guloeppe Man-saro, Man-saro, 32 years old', and bis brother Phll-Uppo'.. Phll-Uppo'.. aked 23. both tailors, have been locked up at police headquarters n a ! .charge of extortion. Tby are accroeed;j by'JUipgiero Nlcoeia,- a barbr, of send-! lngr hixo ' two .letters- signed "Black Hand." demanding: 14000 or Uje Jives ot, himself and thre children. . Nicosia turned the letters over to th pollc and a trap was laid.- . Nicosia pad J123 to Gulseppe Mast-aro, ono ot the alleged representatives of the society, socie-ty, and the police " claim to have captured cap-tured him in the act of receiving the mpney. . vhich was marKed. PhlUippo was arrested at bis home latere ' '" ', The brothers are Sicilians and. have been less than a yar In this country-Both country-Both ' deny membership In the Black Hand society and the alleged extortion. |