Bisbee daily review., 1909-03-26
DID JOSE
 PETROS|NO
 DIE IN VAIN
His Assassination By Black Hand Means Unrelenting War on That Society in New York

NEW YORK, March 25.-Did Jose Petrosino die in vain? That is the question which is uppermost at police headquarters today. And it is perhaps the question of all others which should be uppermost in the minds of New Workers who have the welfare of the city at heart, If the reign of terror, which for five years has robbed honest Italians of their earnings and their lives. is ever to be ended. now is the time, 1t would seem. when the martyrdom of Petro- Sino is fresh in the minds of the pub lie, of legislators and the authorities.
 Averaging the death of honest Joe Petrosino is. from this point of view, only an incident of the work in hand. To be sure. the whole cow ardly Black Hand system is very well typified in the sneaking, crafty assassination upon the Piazza Marion of Palermo last Friday evening. But the New Ycrk lieutenant of police was doing only his share in the war against the Italian criminals. and the extermination Of his assailants should be only the beginning of a campaign that is likely to last for years, and that seems certain to demand he ruthless use of extreme and extraor- dinary measures.
 The Shadow Over Little Italy
 It is hard to make real to the na. tive New Yorker the shadow of the Black Hand which hangs night and day of the city's Italians. We read day after day of bomb explosions. kiGnaDpings and brutal murders in
 the Italian district, but these sec tions are independent communities, and the terror of these crimes is never brought home to the rest of the city.
 Take the American tourist who, when travelling in Sicily, has whole
 some realization of what Sicil'an Nandits are. He does not wander far from the beaten track, and he ex- | Deriences real sudders uPon hearing of the diabolical killings of the Ma fosi But that same American will
 walk serenly along Broadway with
 ~ut ever realizing that only a few | blocks away, in inc wine shops Ci l hutNtfI4 oiEEtLs AutAb cA v Ahl haA 2 , hundreds cf these self s2me kandits transDlanted from their haunts il | Sicily, working out their same blocdy course here as there. Per haps if these desperadoes lived 1T fhe Watching mountains and worC
 red sashes, after the fashion o comic opera bandits. we would bet 1 ter appreciate their character. As il 's. the average New Yorker shTugl
 his shoulders in disbelief and ignrOe' i the whole question.
 This is America, not Sfcily," ht
 says, as If that ended the matter.
 But the truth is, New York is not AmericP in this resneCt In the
 solution of the Black Hand problem | American methods have failed utter | V. Anglo-Saxon courts and juries
 and laws, thoughtfully planned tC ] protect the individual, and our Amer i ican ideas of police have proved !! oowerless to cope with the situation | presented in our Little Italy-where 1 hundreds or vicious criminals are turned loose among a people whC | Tor centuries aE home have been the ] victims of extcrtion. It is Latin problem, and will require extraordi nary measures fer it's solution. Suct | seems to be the upshot Of the Opin iCns formed by the men who have
 studied the Black Hand at closest range.