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Show l(P h HJ 1 7 W iP V 4? Black hand Operators and White Slavers Well Organized. i Montreal. Canada. Dec 17. Under sentence to die net Friday. Carlo Di Battiste. convicted of murder, has turned over to the authorities here u long story of the operations of the blackhand society and of white slave Vraf.lc throughout Canada and the United States. His levelations are considered to be of such importance that they are be-in? be-in? lorwnrdcd today to the department depart-ment of justice. Although declaring his own Innocence of the mur,der of which he wns convicted, he confesses that ho was one of the leading operators opera-tors in white slave traffic, which ho says was organized on a systematic basis, with Montreal and Quebec as headquarters. He says that places even as far distant as the Pacific coast were supplied and controlled by the organization's chiefs in Montreal aud Quebec. |