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Show " Y'roccf'ding on to Los Angeles over tho ..Salt -Pedro road. . Turpi n.Ja bis. tick: 1 eta; hc-surd )ii b'flenaijevand.board-, b'flenaijevand.board-, 'd a Irain fpfT tUtti" tils':'-. Cnfotlniuito- "boarded tho frame' Irittn V" bl con? J Zvlhced Saplo' 'IjSitf -'limy. Vrt' uj- lowing lilnu ' .".U'i o ' ? v- ' ) . .Upon l)U'. diKcoverin"'th(? liir-n on (board the train , Snplouzo URraln drew bis revolver iiml threa(r'nid . their lives. The trainmen prevented a possible pos-sible shooting affray and tho whole mailer was plvcn over into Urn hands of the local authorities when the train . arrived In Odon. After convincing the officers that they bad no inteu-i inteu-i tlon of annihilating Saplenzo and his family, the two Pittsburg men were ' )ermiited to board n Southern Pacific train for San Francisco. Tho Pueblo : Italian went to tho borne of tho relatlvo to spend the nlcht, and It is quite probable that ho ' will continue his Journey to California within the next Tew days. SlranRe fs It may seem, the members of the man's family seem to share the fears entertained by the husband and father. fath-er. In their talk with the local officers the. wife and elder daughters assisted l he elder Saplenzo. In reciting the fears ami horrors which bad made their lives wrelcbod since receiving the allepred death letter. Saplenzo , spoke pood English and both be and the members of bis family seemed to i be prosperous. oo 1 BLACK RAID PLOT TOLD TO POLICE Believing that he has been singled out as a victim oi the dread BlackJ Hand society, and brooding over thi fear until It has become a mania, Joe Saplenzo, a prosperous resident of Pueblo, Colo, arrived in this city with his family last evening on hi? way to California, It was not his original plan lo visit Ogden, but the ever-increasing fear that he was being followed by agents of the society caused the frenzied Ital- ; ian to threaten the lives of several j people, and finally to change his orlg- Inal plans and seek protection under j the roof of relatives residing in this j city. ! Two young men, both Italians, who happened to be traveling on the same train with Saplenzo and his frightened i family were pointed out to the locaj police as the supposed death-dealing agents of the Black Hand, Both were . taken Into custody last evening, but ' ' succeeded In convincing the officers that they had no criminal instructions to carry out and were merely l'erced to pass through Salt Lake and Ogden Og-den on their way from Pittsburg, Pa., to San Francisco. I Saplenzo's story was a pitiful one, in spile of its Improbability. He claimed to have been lulng peaceably and happily on a farm near Pueblo, Colo., when be received a letter from the Black Hand society, demanding that he- turn over $10,0M0 at once or be and the members of his family would be killed. The half-crazed Italian Ital-ian showed this letter to the local police, but no effort was made to hac it translated from the Italian, In which it was written. Rather than give up everything he had on earth Saplenzo decided to floe the country, and accordingly be sold his farm and, accompanied by his wife and five children, started for California. Bellevlnf that the society would attempt to carry out its threat, the Italian was in mortal lear that ho would followed Tbls fear grew until he had singled out pcrsous on the train as probable assassins, previous to bis arrival in Salt Iake City the man drew a gun on several people in. the train, among lbem being the two jouug Italians from Pittsburg, but was prevented from doing any- damage. Arriving at-Salt Lake City, Saplenzo Saplen-zo abandoned his original intention of |