The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-01-25
Judge Refuses to Bar the
Documents Identified.
BOOK OF RULES IS ADMITTED
This Book was Captured in
Raid Here
Government will Probably Conclude
Its Case Today--List OF members
of the "Society OF the Banana" is
Now In the Hands of the Court.

| Witnesses in the Black Hand trial
curdling letters and notes of Marion
black hand men and the guilt is being
apparently fastened upon the Slcillans
The following complete story of the
| proceedings at Toledo in which Mari
on menigured will be of interest.
The article is taken from the Toledo
| Blade.
For the first time since the begin
ming of the trial of the IA Slcilians for
conspiracy direct evidence was
brought out today in an effort to fasten
the authorship of Black Hand letters
on the defendants.
"R. j. Pennell, a mail carrier of
Marion, testified that he frequently
handled the mail of Salvatore Lima,
and that he was familiar with the lat
ter's handwriting. He then identified
several letters written to John Amicon
at Columbus as being i'm the hand
writing of Salvatore Lima. These let
ters were postmarked Dennison and
Pittsburg. Witness testified that be-
tween the middle of March and June
8, 1903, Salvatore Lima was constant
ly sending letters to Augustine Mar
fist at Dennison, and Crazio Runfola
at Pittsburg. The witness also iden-
titled the signature of Salvatore Lima
on several checks on the Marion
County Bank.
Another important witness this
morning was John Amlcon of Column
bus the first man to have the courage
to inform the officers that he was be-
ing threatened i'm Black Hand letters
Mr.. Amicon identified Salvatore and
Sebastian Lima Severina Ventola, Joe |
Ignoffo and Salvatore Arrlgo as men
he had seen around his store about |
the time the threatening letters were
coming. He related conversation
between himself and Ventola wherein |
the latter accused Amicon of being
suspicious that he tventola) was the
Amicon testified that he told ventola:
IF / thought you wrote them 1
wouldn't have to go to court. would
shoot you right here on the sidewalk"
Speaking of the efforts of the con-
sprators to carry out their threats the
witness said: ''They tried all different L
Kinds OF schemes to catch me, but
they didn't do It,"
IoStdl Inspector pcoTse Idlc, one l.
of Oldfeld's chief fieutenants in the
of the conspiracy took
the stand this morning and re-told the
events connected with the arrest OF
the defendants. Pate was subjected
to a searching cross-eXamlnation by
six of the attorneys for the defense,
but his direct testimony was not shak-
ell in any essential particular.
Harry W. Crum, postmaster of CO.
lumbus. who originated the investiga-
ton through letters brought to him
by John Amlcon told of methods used
to identify letters cropped into the
mails by suspected persons. He iden-
tilted letter sent by Salvatore Dem
ma to A. Marlisi, at Dennison. by
his initial on a special delivery stamp
Mr. Crum was also severely cross-ex-
amined but came through the ordeal
unshaken.
Horace Williams, assistant post
master at Marion, identified 4 several
uncashed money orders made out for
Italy but found in Salvatore Llma's
house.
"R. H. Holland, bookkeeper for
Amicon Brothers, at Columbus, testi-
fed to finding a dynamite bomb at
the Amlcon door. He also identified
Runfola and Ventola as persons whom
he had seen around the Amicon store
and fruit yards"