The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1909-02-06
Black Hand Is Blamed for EX-
plosion in Hall of Stricken
Home.
THREE INFANTS SICK.
Scarlet Fever Patients Hurried
Out Of Tenement After
Mysterious Warning.

While one child lay dead and three
other children lay III unto death from
scarlet fever In the fve-story tenement
house at No. Sc5 East Seventy-fnh
street at $50 o'clock this morning an
agent Of the Black Hand" crept softly
through the house and placed a bomb
on the stairway leading from the first
TO the second floor.
There was not whole pane OF glass
left In the house, and plastering was
cracked and fell on the suffering chill
dren and the dead body Of the other
child.
Miss Pauline Brockman. who lives on
the NTH floor OF the house. returned
to her home about o'clock this morn
Ing with = young man who saw her to
her own door. As the couple passed tho
third floor q man slouchel back in the
corner and drew his hat over his eyes.
Lock that door carefully MS you go
out" Miss Brockman cautioned the
man. See that tho man has gone,
too" she added.
Scarlet Fever In House.
The entire tenement house had been
posted by the Board OF Health. Next
door to the Brockman home lived Saliva.
tore Trentoft and his family and on the
door was pasted the sign. Scarlet
Fever" Trentoft's little daughter Lucy
died OF the fever al II o'clock last night.
md he and his wife and few friends
were sitting about the body. which was
surrounded by candles.
On the fourth floor the Scarlet
Fever" sign was also posted. on this
floor lived Frank Marowitz. whose
daughter Rose. eleven years old. is In
. critical condition from fever
Across the hall another child has
scarlet fever and this door is also
posted.
On the fourth floor lives Antonio
Zuppa. his wife and five daughters one
OF these children, Lucy. five years old,
also has scarlet fever.
Miss Drockman's escort passed out
into the street He saw the scarlet
fever signs. and as he went from the
front doors and started to lock them
he was asked to keep them open by a
man who was then tying Grape on the
doorbell
Don't lock the door" the man said.
Il am going In now"
Saw the EXPLOSION.
Policeman Birmingham. OF the East
sixty-seventh street station, was pass
Ing the house when he saw a suffering,
nrey object In the hall. The policeman
stopped for a time and then started
through tho door, The object on Are
appeared to him to be box about
foot square. He was In the hallway
when the explosion occurred, and Il
carried him off his feet. The front
doors were hurled to the street. and not
whole pane Of glass was left In the
house. Plasterlng from the first floor
to the top story Was cracked, and then
Il began to fall.
First out OF the house came Trentoft
with the body Of his dead child in his
arms. The child had been almos,
buried By falling plaster.
Behind Trentoft were the fathers OF
the three children with scarlet fever.
each with a sick child in his arms.
Then came the twenty families. Some
were dressed. they having been sitting
UP with their sick or dead Others
were In their night clothes. The police
came and tried to preserve order, but,
were unable to do So
30 great had been the conclusion that
the windows Of the tenement across the
street had been broken and the tenants
rushed from II screaming. The ten
ants came from all the houses on the
block.
Got "Black Hand" Letters.
when quiet was restored the police
began an investigation. on the ground
floor Of the tenement that had been at
tackled TO the east Is the butcher shop
Of Masgi & Capanise. and on the oppo-
site side Is G!useppi Tavolacci's grocery.
Tavolacci and his family live In the
rear Of the store. He denied TO the
police that he had been the recipient OF
Black Hand letters. but II Is said that
he has received threatening commgnlca-
tons. and that he has refused to pay
the Matchmaking rang protection money.
The .damage to the tenement was
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