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Show ANOTHER MADE ! Leaders of Black Hand Defiant and Demand $500 From Man Cincinnati, O.. June 14. Notwithstanding Notwith-standing the eleven arrests made last week among tho leaders of the Ohio black hand, the extortionists hao flaunted defiance to the government authorities by sending black hand letters let-ters to intended lctims within a I stone's throw of the federal building J in Cincinnati today. Herman Brelner, proprietor of a res- I taurant, received a black hand letter today, which was mailed here last night, threatening to kill him and blow ; up his restaurant with n bomb, if he did not mail $500 to Z. Y. M., general delivery, Newport, Ky. That the black hand operations In Ohio and adjoining states, were conducted con-ducted by the "Society of the Banana," a secret Sicilian organization, which is an outgrowth of the old Mafia, is confirmed by Postofflce Inspector R. M. C- Hosford, who said "the name is a real one and not, as some supposed, a joke." |