The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-06-17
SEVEN THREATS, THEN A BOMB
BLG>T THlT SHOOK TENEMENT
LONG TINE COMING.
.RrothsrhoOd'' cult FOSllng with q Toe
Prosperous Barber last September
Yesterday Hb shOp VAS Wreeled.
Italian. Mere searesf grnm, 49,.


Prosperous Barber last aepteuabes
Yesterday Hb shOp Was wrecl1ed
Italians We're scared From aleep
Irarwas grave mistake Frank Fassslt
rsi- 81 hen he lengthened his barber ahoy
.a there IN the ground floor Of tho dOubl,
,srau.u' al lita First avenue and in.
.ra.al I've new barber chairs where there
.sr, only two before This siEn Of pros
ra-,'v til not 20 mnotsd by the shArE
eve. 300 HArlems Italy and within a Wees
the demands for money began u come;
yesterday morning the bomb
P-frr" the nap on the plush OF thOas
ra, chars had begun 10 BE- worn the bar
boz received his first letter.
You are too rich and you try TO be a.
American. II said IL you valus your
heat and yQUr wife's heart you win pay
$50 % ths brotherhood. How much bet.
To- E0o than knife sticking in your
rssr'. Don't 90 10 tho detectives With
,fls u- vou will get the knife assuredly.'
The letter told Fassett that he should q
H. A certain bOOthlack stand on Ilsth
street and ask the bOotblRoxer for 4
match lftWas given Co him he should
IN rlrn give over an envelope with $500
M
Frank has lived in tho colony eighteen
years and gathered American wisdom
He Immediately went 20 POlics Head.
quarters and turned the letter over to the
Italian bureau He even iOked about Il
With -ome oi his friends in Pistro Mes
CALI vine shop on Fast Sixty-flrst street
They think I'm q greenhorn q get
scared at their letters he would boast
watch me- III get EN- vet and when I
d. therell he less Of thia Black Hand
business around here
Within a week another lettar came
THIS called upon Our Lady Of Mount Car
mel N witness that II SSOO was not strai ght-
wAy forthcoming Fassett's little daughter
Louisa would have her face 20 SCARED
nv ACID that shs would be hidsous for the
rest n her life and no husband would ever
he hers
This missive Frank took 10 the Italian
bureau There he IVES informed that he
fnuHf 10 - ~ W a. N0fu IN NlN NNtN3T 70 10
williamsburg Bridge on the dRy and hour
that vas set and carry with him bundle
n clipped paper with SO bills strapped
On top and bottom; and when a man with
q slouch hat and a red bendannA Ep-
preached him and seid. Have you any
hsh'- turn over the bundle Of paper with
out hesitation There would b. dasso-
tives near AZ hand % nab the blackmailer
Frank was assured
The barber went n the clip Joint on the
Manhattan side II the north roadway and
waited Two men from the Italian
bureau pretended n BE- mendinG the
broken harness ~ grocery wagon
they were driving. The harness was an
unconscionable time amending. but no
man with n SLOUGH hat and knotted
handanna approached q inquire for
fsh
After tAat Fassett did not joke 10
much about the blackmailerS among his
friends and he spent much 81 his time
N IS shop. When his wife. Minnie. went
ou' she always EFF little Louisa sitting
a chair in the barber shop. Minnie
herself never ventured out oi the EhOp
after dark. and when Frank went n a
.0tge meeting he usually met a friend
a. the corner and walked along with him.
The next letter CURLY advised The
barber that Il he Intended n do any
business with che brotherhood 10 had
better leave the pigs of detectives out
Of u. He should 20 n i75tk street and
near a newsstand at the corner Of Lex
nRton avenue he would 80 a man with q
pushcart selling bananas az 5 O'Clock
IN a saturday afternoon. and when that
man asked him II he would like 10 buy a
green banana he had better slip that $50
tohim and walk away lfhs didn't we'll.
thn was about the laRt warning
Again acting upon he orders 81 the
detectives at headquarters the barber
went n the appointed spot. There was
m pushcart and no man wanting 20 sell
= green banana. Seven times in al the
barber and the Detectives set their trap
and they caught nothing. Then last
September the letters stopped coming
and Fassett began 20 take courage. think
NJ hat the blackmailers had given MIN
90 a. a bad job.
Bur some time after O'Clock yesterday
morning somebody opened the outside
and inside doors OF the vestibule IN tbs
tenement which houses Fassett and his
harhar shop. though both doors had
been locked the night befOre. and set a
b0mh against tho wall 81 the barber shop.
Tho explosion threw the wall inward
IN he harher shop. tore out both DOOR
Il m" vsstihule. ripped up portion 81
The stairway Leading N the hoors above
and shook down Yards - plAlter from
he vestihule ceiling end the stairway
vail The c1ncussiOn shook the entire
t.0cs Within a minute windows we're
20 alI along both sides 81 the street. Some
me le' ~ 2 revolver 20 summon the police
The families on the second BOOr u the
crowded tenement started IN scramble
through the dark down the flight 10 the