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Show FEARS DEATH . Received Two Menacing "Black Hand" Letters Demanding $5,000 Chicago, Feb. 10. Following the receipt re-ceipt of two alleged black hand letters demanding $5,000. William Lamrcchet, a Jeweler, is In fear of his life. His wife has become ill from fright. I Lambrechet received the first letter . Monday.. It demanded that the money j be placed in a cigar box and left i Wednesday night in a certain place. A 1 decoy was rosorted to and five policemen police-men laid in wait but nobody appeared for the money. The following day the jeweler received re-ceived a second letter. The missive, written on a pleco of wrapping paper, was signed with a skull and cross-hones cross-hones and contained a threat that if the money was not placed in a cigar box last night and left at another location, loca-tion, the "society" would inflict on him a swift and terrible death. . A second decov was arranged but without result. The police are now Inclined In-clined to think the affair a practical joke, but Lambrechet la apprehenshe. |