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Show JUST FOR FUN IS NOT I NOW SO FUNNY New York, Feb. 11 Thinking it would be funny to frlnhten one of their school fellows by sending him i a Black Hand letter, two 14 year-old New York boys wrote a note to another an-other boy, (he son of wealthy parents, par-ents, demanding $10 and threatening i death If it was not forthcoming. The i letter was signed "King of the Black Hand," and was profusely ornamented with skulln, cross-bones and daggers. Two detectives were assigned at Mayor Gaynor's request to ferret out the writers. The two boys who had sent the letter smilingly came up to the detectives and told them that they had written it for fun. To their vast astonishment they were immediately arrested and locked up. |