The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-01-11
BURGLARY AND ARSON.
YOUNG ITA HAN WO MAN ROBBED
 OF $19O.

Three Young Men Broke Into Grocery
 Store at 25G Gofe Street and Held
 Up Woman Early Yfsterday Morning
 Woman Bound Wifh English Irvine
 and Thrown on FI@or but Not Seri-
 Ously Injured-Burgslars Set Fire to
 Store in Two PIaces-l l-NO Arrests Yet
 No arrests had been made last night in connection with the robbery and as- sault upon Mrs. Theresa Dicerbo conn mitted by three masked men early yes terday morning at 256 Goffe street. The detective bureau has charge of the case and it is stated that there will be very thorough investigation of the mat ter, as the circumstances surrounding it are queer and shrcuded in considerable mystery.
 About 3:20 o'clock yesterday morning Mrs. Dicerbo, a young Italian woman, eighteen years old, wko has been mar ried only since November 19 to VincenSo Dicerbo, aged about twenty-four years, who keeps a grocery store at 256 Goffe street, corner of County, arose to go down into the store to get some lemons | for her husband who was suffering from a cold She dressed and went down from her apartments on the third floor to the store, carrying with her q candle affixed to cigar box, On reaching the first floor she set down the candle in the rear room of the three on the first floor and passed into the store to accomplish her errand.
 | As she started tc come back she was met by three masked men, one of whom held a revolver to her head and threat- ened her with death if she called out ! They demanded money and Mrs. Dicer- | Do handed over d bag which she wore | 4baut her neck, and which contained | $150 which she had saved up. Two Of the men then seized the woman, bound her hands and fret together with Eng l fish twine folded many times, and threw her upon the floor The fall rem dered the woman unconscious, although she was not seriously hurt. The burg lars succeeded in getting $40 more out of the store till, after which they tried .o burn the store, setting fire to the building in two places.
 Some tenant of the building gave the alarm of fire and Bernard Barono, brother of Mrs. Dicerbo, upon hasten ing downstairs found his sister lying on the floor. He picked her up and car ried her upstairs, where he found that she was bound An alarm of fire was sent in. Dr, Linquist was called and ordered the young woman sent to Grace hospital. It was stated last night that she was not seriously hurt and would be all right in a few days. She claims that whe1 thrown down she succeeded in holding back her head so that 1t did not strike the floor.
 Mrs. Dicerbo claims that the three men were in masks, and she is not cer- tain whether they were Italians or not, but thinks they were not.
 The fire In the building was quickly extingushed with little loss.
 Detectives Ward and Donnelly have been assigned to the case. Their in- auiries revealed the fact that Black, Hand threats may have some bearing on the assault and robbery. Pasquale valente, well-knowp. Italian contrac- tor and friend of Dicerbo, has re- gently been the recipient of several Black-Hand letters demanding money and threatening his life. It developed that Dicerbo had on several occasions translated these letters for the police, and had in turn received anonymous letters himself. telling him to mind his own business and threatening him with violence if he interfered with any more of the letters received by .Valente.
 Dicerbo and his wife are said to be first cousins They were married last November.