The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-26
FRAPLAID FOR BLACK HANDLER
BUT FOUR POLICEMEN AND TWO
VICTIMS WAITED IN VAIN.

T1en Pctr ouina and Hia Fellow sfoushs W ent
n Got . Prisoner whom They Accuse
% Planning Revenge Because Hfs Love
AFFAIR HAD been R9dciy Checked.
A-nervous Italian sat on q bench near
the Washington Arch, in Warrington
Square Park, ON Saturday night. lingering
a white handkerchief. In the handkerchief
was $500 in bills. Tho man was waiting to
deliver the money to a stranger who should
approach him and say Have you got
the money!
Tho Italian was there In response 70
Black Hand letters that demanded $500,
threatening to blow up the Italians house
and kill his family IL he refused to give up.
Disguised as laborers and seated on diff
ferent benches at some distance IRON the
man with the white handkerchief were
Detectives Cavoni and Petrosini. They,
too. were watching for her q who should
say Have you got the money! The bills
in the handkerchief had been marked.
From 0 o'clock, the appointed hour.
until past midnight, the three men patiently
stuck to their posts. Then no Black Handler
having appeared, the man with the money
went home, while the sleuths went on .
hunt for the man they suspected a. the
author OF the letters. For nearly An hour
they searched the Italian quarter south
Of Washington Square, and at / o'clock
nabbed a tall. red haired Italian at Bleeoker
street and Minetta lane. In his pockets
were found a loaded revolver, a 10 inch
dirk and a pair of long bladed, sharp scis-
sors. The man was Calogero Magnano Of
2 Carmine street.
Several weeks ago MaRnano was ar
rested for trying to kidnap Angelina Giu-
seppi, whom he had followed to America
from Italy, and who did not reciprocate
bis love. Magnano got out of that sorape
because Angelina refused to press the
charge against him.
Angelina and her father, Savio Giuseppe,
work in the cigar factory OF C. B. Lobravico
at 90 Grand street. At the time Of the
attempted kidnapping Of Angelina, Lob
ravico aided Giuseppe all he could in the
efforts to have Mognsno jailed. Soon
after Mognano was set free both Lobravico
and Giuseppe began to receive Black Hand
letters. Eight hundred dollars was de-
manded from Lobravico and $3.50 from
Giuseppe. One day Giuseppe got a letter
with the printed address Of G. Is. Lobravico,
~ Grand street, in bold type and his own
name written above. The envelope vas
one Of Lobravico's own business envelopes.
Mognano used to work for Lohravico. When
he left Lobravico's employ he said he was
going to settle in a nearby town and asked
for some of Lobravico's envelopes that he
might send him some orders. Two were
given to him. Lobravico could not re-
member giving away any other envelopes,
and when Giuseppe received the letter in
Lobravico's envelope the latter felt sure
that Mognano had written all the Black
Hand letters.
The matter was put before the police,
who advised Lobravico to comply with
the requests for $500. He did Sc. 1t was
Lobravico OF the bench in the park with
the $500 in the handkerchief.
GIuseppi at the same time was walking
UP and down Goerck street, tralled by
Detectives Monde and Digiho and ready
to hand $3.50 in marked bills to a man wear
ing a green and red sweater, who was to
wear a black band on his left arm and TO
say twice "Porgerei," which il Italian for
Give up" This Black Handler also failed
to appear.
Detective Cavoni brought Mognano TO
the jefferson Market police court yeeter-
day. @You see, our evidence Is mostly
inference so far he said, yet we feel sure
we have the right man. l am going to
search Mognano's quarters to-day, and
IL l find the mate to the Lobravico envelope
IL will strengthen our case. We think
the Black Hand letters were written by
Mognano rs a means Of getting revenge
on Lobravico and Giuseppe for blocking
his attempt to force Angelina to marry him.
We feel especially sure because Lobravico
belongs to a class that wouldn't naturally
receive. Black Hand letters. He comes
from La~urenzane, a suburb of Naples,
while Mognsno is a Sicilian. Almost all
Black Handlers are Sicilians and they in
variable select a Sicilian as "A victim
When Mosnsno's arsenal was displayed
and a charge of carrying concealed weapons.
as well as a short affidavit accusing Mog-
nano of attempted extortion, was placed
before him Magistrate Wahle ooh a closer
look at the prisoner.
1--we seen this fellow before" he said.
Some one explained that Mognano had
been before him on the kidnapping charge
and that his present difficulty probably
grew out Of that incident.
We'll, the course Of true love never did
run smooth" said the Court.
Mognano was held in 81 600 for a further