Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-05-23

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police, their nefarious being.
1t was at their successful country
men tina the outlaws aimed, and the
police believe that the percentage of
wealthy men of Italian birth who
sought their aid is very small as COM
pared to thai percentage who paid the
price of safety. The extortionists are
known to have secured many thousands
of dollars in this city, but the police
confidently believe that their secret
profits exceeded their known gains a
hundredfold.
Early in the year 1908 DIR. A. Il.
Bianchi, a wealthy and influential
member of the Italian quarter, living
at 104 Seventh avenue. sought the as
s%istance of Captain Brown. He had
received a letter demanding $4,000 and
threatening death to himself and al,
of the members OF his family if he re-
fused to ray 1t. 1t was signed with
the conventional skull and crossbones
and the words Black Hand in tia ian
DIR. Bianchi had paid no attention TO
this threat, but other letters followed,
in which it was specifically threatened
that the physicians house would be
blow up unless the money was paid.
From thai time Captain Brown had
DIR. B%ianchi's house guarded dav and
night. He persuaded the physician to
take a dummy envelope and deposit 1t
on the spot designated in the letters
THE program was carried out. butfno
n came for the money. The con
spirators were too shrewd for this trite
police trap,
Fireman Spells Plot.
a short time afterward Joseph Dow
rey, a banker, whose place of business
is at the corner of Garside street and
Seventh avenue, began to receive the
threatening letters. They started with
Il modest lequest Tor $50, which was
10 De left in Branch Brook Park. The
baker, under hidden olice guard. took
a dummy package 10 The spot in the
park to which the letters had di-
rocted him, but a fireman in uniform
Numbered into the scene, picked UP the
envelope ans spoiled the plot.
Then a wealthy contractor in Lock
street was ordered to take 81, 100 to Il
certain market in Brooklyn and to
walk along until he saw a man wear
ing d red necktie who would say to
illll. blNt me Il IldlCIl, give me IL
match" That was to be his cue and
he was to hand the money over TO the
stranger. Again the bandits sensed
the hidden police guard and the man
in the red necktie failed to appear.
But on July so, 1908. the outlaws be-
gan to make good their threats. The
front of Dowrey's bank, at Garsidc
street and Seventh avenue. was blown
to pieces by a bomb which a been
secreted in the lavatory of Il saloon in
the basement. A man in laborer's
clothes had been seen to lurch into the
place inc disappear as if by magic.
Although the saloon-keeper and mem
bers Of his family were injured no lives
were lost. A short time afterward the
saloon-keeper, in terror, returned to
Italy.
Immediately after the explosion the
banker received a letter, In which he
was reminded of the earlier threats
and told that the band never forgot.
ut makes no difference how many of
our men Captain Brown arrests" the
letter ran, 1--WE have substitutes to
take their places"
Gang Separates.
Inc I'VE uSltclNCS Hdu DeSn work
ing hard all Of this time and had
learned a feature of the bandits sys-
TEN, which had blocked their plans.
The original band of outlaws numbered
twelve men, They were all residents
of Newark, and apparently business
men. After the outrage began the band
split into three sections. One section
went to Brooklyn, a second to Bridge
-. n AIs,l .,,o,i-N1 l@-rz MI
four here planned and laid the ground
work for robberies and outrages in
Newark. Then men from Brooklyn OF
Bridgeport would come here and do the
actual work and hastily retire after a
division of the spoils. In the same
manner the local black-hand artists
did all of the out-of-town work, leav-
ing their gangmates free of suspicion
in their respective cities.
A confession by the lone woman
member of the band brought the first
positive police success Dominick Giar-
dano, a baker of 80 Garside street. had
been robbed of $500. Mary Di John,
who had been living with Vito Antonio
Pasquale, another of the r~ingleaders,
sought Captain Brown and begged his
protection. She said she had been
sent III W Ildhe rove 10 the pdNSi. oh0
had gone out after beer and had put
choral in it. Giardano complained of
the peculiar taste of the beverage and
went out after a second pailful. He
was jostled ON the sfv,et hv a straneer.
who slipped more of the drops into the
beer. When Giardano was unconscious,
Mary said, Pasquale and three of his
fellows came in and robbed the house
at their leisure, securing money and
Jewels to the value of $500. Mary Di
! John said that when she bad been ad-