| Show TERRIBLE REVENGE OF BLACK HAND BAND Cut ut Off Both th Hands o. For Former A c Me- Me Member bor r of of ij er J So f L I 1 r 11 Newark N X J. J Oct 2 29 With With arms cut off ort and the stumps unhealed VII- VII lardo a 0 former formel member of or the Black Hand appealed to tho the Newark Newark New New- ark rk police pollee today for tor a police guard Suard to protect him from the tho still vengeful vengeful vonge- vonge ful fui members of or the band which he deserted and betrayed who was strangely shipped to tt this city from Crom John Johnstown town Pa where ho he had lain unconscious fur for I Iman man many days In iii a hospital Is now living at Jefferson under tho the namu name of ot Ton Tony Petti but he ho told tol detectives I toda today that tho the Black Hand was still after him and le he feared the they had planned some further means of torturIng torturing tor- tor turIng luring and maiming him says ros he joined the Black Blacic Blackland Hand land In w. w Va taking the oath In an abandoned coal mine with a score of ot members heavily armed Last spring ho was suspected of I I having havins betrayed one ono of ot th the members j I Ito Ito to o the police pollee and he was lured to St St. I Michaels Pa where on September i 1 1 last he was attacked ed b by r four our men whom he recognized reco as members of ot the tho Black Dlack Hand They dragged ragged him Into nto a 0 switchman's shanty at the side side- of ot a railroad track he ho says and there thereof one of their number who was a physIcian physician cian clan cut off both hoth his hands and arms just lust below the elbows while the others held him Ho lIo was then after acter suffering suf sul- Coring fering all the pain of or the tho he double amputation am lm- dragged out to the railroad d track rack and chloroformed When he awoke he hc was In a hospital where he remained for Cor 28 8 days das A man mall who claimed to be he a i relative dative then took him ilm from the hospital assuring the doctors he lie would care for him This man with three others brought him himo to o Newark he declares and hero ho hI holas has las been H with a man who ho hos s says s 's was also a former member of or the Black mack Hand lIan and who left heft lie tho For five i or six days das states that hat strange men inca have hac been seen In Inthe inthe the he neighborhood of where ho imo has S been living hIving lIe He has hac recognized ed one of them as one of the tho men who administered administered ad ad- ministered the Black Hand oath to him hIm ilm In West IVest est Virginia an and ho believes thy they arc are t seeking him |
