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Show DREAM DISRUPTS BLACK HAND Woman's Vision of Robbery Leads to Arrest of Gang, Who Receive Long Sentences. New Haven, Conn. The "Itlack Hand" gang which linn terrortxed New Haven s r,.iiiin liullnun for five years, nnd within two yenrn haa commenced to lerrorlxo the other cltlxenn, was crippled for ninny yearn to come when Ju.lKii Williams nentenced Vlocenro Siililiatiissae, leader of the gang, to "I years in stale prlMin and gave other niembern long sentences. The -mack Hand" gnng has operated oper-ated In Connecticut fur five yeara, with'heiid.iuarterB here. Rnhbatnaaao. under the name of Illusrppo llonl, was ml'cr or the New York gang after coming to America from Italy, where he hud been convicted of murder aud had escaped. In New York ha was given a five-year sonXence In 8lng Sing, and after getting out In the spring of 1907 he came to New Haven to direct things. With hlin came a handsome woman, Annie Taddeo, who stood by him lo the end. It waa In the atory of a dream that Iho authorities got track of Habhalas-sue'e Habhalas-sue'e own personnl Rang. Thefts in the outskirts of the city, and particularly particu-larly In a cobbler's shop, led lo a search for stolen property on a farm In the town of Urango, Dear here, where Ilelecllve James I. Ward of the New Haven bureau, found a woman on the verniidn, Mrs. Kim Corvnlu. The woman told Ward of a dream Hie night belore which had kept h-r In a condition of fright nil day, and she wanted him In take her away. In her dream she saw KTunk (iul.lo, who ofl.-u tislled III.) house, go with four other men lo tin. home of the hermit near by, drink wine with hlin and then murder him, after binding and to.'tiirlug Itltil liitii tolling them where his vulnnl.l. s were hidden. S.Hiii after shu uwukened, Oul.ln riiiue lo the house with some good. She told him of the dream, anil he admitted ho had been to WallliiKfor.l, u suburb of New Haven, with Sub-butussue. Sub-butussue. Jack I, lb.ro, a barber ot New Haven; Nulnle Pnsenlu, a cousin of a city olllclal, and (iluseppe Mas-suro, Mas-suro, and there hud gone to the home of the hermit, Kopoll, and Hint all the dream details wero true, with the exceptlun that they did not murder the hermit, but left him bound on the II. Mir, This proved true, aud the old man was releused. |