Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-04
Blackmailers Scent Ruse.

| blow you up, If you don't leave the money
under a big stone at Sydney avenue and
Crazy street. Don't make any mistake.
Blackmailers Scent Ruse.
Under advice of some friends, Morroney,
with $500 went to the place named at the
appointed time. He was armed with a re-
volver and some of his friends kept watch
| over him from places of concealment Evil
IDENTIFY the agents of the blackmailers knew
that Morroney had not come alone, and
they failed to appear to negotiate with him.
No further communications were received
by Morroney. and yesterday the black
mailels kept their threat
The elder Mrs. Morroney had been in the
kitchen some moments before the explosion
but her daughter-in-law and grandchld
had just entered the room when the crash
occurred. The old woman, in spite of her
INJURIES. tried to explain about the presence
of dynamite. 1t was gathered from her re-
marks that there was no fire in the coal
range, but that she was using the gas
range when man opened the door hur-
redly entered the kitchen, and either threw
bomb or an Internal machine into the coal
stove, which exploded almost Immediately
Headquarters in New York.
All of the threatening letters received by
Morroney were posted in New York. This
leads the police to believe that the head
quarters of the blackmailers is In this
city. and the agent who introduced the dy-
Mantle into the Morroney home made
special trip from New York for that pur-
pose.
Only about two months ago a strange
man and woman attempted to lure six-year-
old Joseph Morroney from his home by
promising to take him to a theater in New
York city The child accompanied the pair
half way to the railroad station and then
became frightened and ran back to his
the city by the angry friends of Morroney,
who believed an attempt was being made to
kidnap the boy.
Another Outrage in Philadelphia.
PHILADELPHIA, June 4.-Under cir
cumstances indicating that another Black
Hand horror had been perpetrated In the
vicinity of this city the headless body of
an unknown Italian was found yesterday
morning beside the tracks of the Trenton
cutoff of the Pennsylvania railroad, near
Germantown road station, Mount Airy
Twenty feet away from the body lay the
head. and beside 1t a kaen-edged knife. it's
three-inch blade covered with blood. There
was nothing else, however, to indicate that
the scene of the finding of the body was
also the scene of the murder.
After hours of examination detectives and
police reached the conclusion that the vic
tim most probably had been lured to Phila-
delphia; murdered, perhaps, while he Steps
somewhere in the city, and early yesterday
morning was carried by wagon to the sub
urbS and flung on the railroad embank-
ment.
The victim appeared to be about twenty
one years old. He well dressed In a
black cheviot suit. vest and trousers, and
wore slightly worn pair of patent leather
Shoes A few cigarettes and one penny
were in his pockets. suggesting that other
money may have been taken, though a
small gold scarf pin untouched. The
coat bore the name of the Caplin Tailoring
Company, New York. This is the only
semblance of a clue revealed by the exami-
nation. 1t led to the belief that the home
OF the man had been in New York city.
His dress suggested that of laborer on a
holiday.
Practically nothing can be done toward
solving the mystery until the body has been
identified. In the absence OF this informa-
ton there is every possibility that another
will be added to the long list of unsolved
murder mysteries traceable to the vendet-
tass of Italian secret organizations.