Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-06-01
SIX INDICTED AS
TERROR|STS ARE
ARRA|GEEO TODAY
Leader of Alleged Black Hand
Gang Is Released on
$4,000 Bail.

Six Italians, charged by the county
prosecutors office with being part of
the gang hat has been terrorizing
their fellow countrymen in Newark
and vicinity for the past three years
with robberies, "Black Hand letters
and d~ynaniting, were arraigned before
Judge Jay Ten Eyck in Special Ses-
sions Court on several indictments to-
day.
The men named in the indictments
are Peter Di Pascale, Giovanelli Sor-
r%entino, Vincenze Pagana, Vito An
tonic Di Pascale, Agastino Sarno and
Sabata Accomnonda. All of them
pleaded not guilty.
Jointly indicted with the men who
pleaded are a number of others who
were not on hand to plead. The cases
of the men who pleaded today were
set down for trial on June 27.
Accommondo, 1t is claimed by the
prosecutors office, was the leader and
brains of the gang. He is a saloon
keeper at SO Cutler street, and is said
to be quite wealthy. He was the first
of the men to be arrested in the present
crusade against the gang, n is now
held in $4,000 bail for the Second Pre-
cinct Police Court on a charge of being
implicated in the robbing of Rafael
Catignole of $40 On May 81, 1909. Four
of the other prisoners arraigned today
are also included in this indictment.
After Accommodate was arraigned
and had pleaded not guilty, Frank M.
McDermit, his attorney, asked that his
bail be reduced. This man is a re-
spectacle citizen" said McDermit to
Judge Ten Eyck, ian until his present
arrest has never been in any trouble
with the police. He is charged with
being implicated in the theft of $40,
and 1t seems that $4,000 bail is ample.
Holding him in SIS, 900 bail is absurd
McDermit Their said he would agree
to raise $4,000 bail for Accommodate.
and asked that it be reduced to that
amount. Prosecutor Mott came back
with an offer to make it $4,000 and then
Judge Ten Eyck split the difference by
fixing the figure at $4,000, which
Accommodate furnished, and was re-
leased. The other prisoners were sent
back to jail, where they will probably
remain until their trial.
The first of the six indictments
against the men charges Peter Di Pas
Gale. Vito Antonio Di Pascale. Clio
Nd1GllI 0OIIClltilo oho
Pagana with breaking and entering
the store of Felice De Stefano & Bro.
at 1871 Seventh avenue, on the night OF
December 8, 1908, and stealing mer'
chandise valued at $279.
The second is against Antonio Df
Pascale and Giovanelli Sorrentino, and
charges them with dynamiting the
building of Florence Del Tuffo on the
night of October II, 1909, while the
third is against Di Pascale, Sorrentino
and Agastino Sarno, and charges them
with blowing up h home and store OF
Salvador Di AURA on July 30, 1908. Del
Tuffo and Di AURA had both received
several Black Hand letters demanding
money before the explosions came that
wrecked their places of business.
The fourth Indictment Is returned
against Agastino Sarno, Peter Di Pas
Gale. Antonio Di Pascale, Giovaneln
Sorrentino and Vincenza Pagana, ana
charges the theft of wines and liquors
valued at $47.4S from the store or
Benianino Lataracco on April l, l9Os.
The fifth indictment, the only one In
which Accommodate. the alleged leader
of the gang, figures, charges the tneft
of $40 from Rafael Catignola IN
March q, 1909. Indicted with Accom-
monde are Antonio Di Pascale, Giovan-
ELI Sorrentino, V~incenza Pagona II
Agastino Sarno. This robbery is sale
to have taken place in the saloon OF
Accommodate after C~atignola had peen
rugged Accommodate, who has previ-
ously borne a good reputation, denied
ALL knowledge of the robbery at the
time 1t occurred.
The last indictment charges Antonio
Pascale and Giovanelli Sorrentino with
the larceny of $575 Inc jewelry worth
S103 from Domenico Giordano on Octo-
her %. 1909. This was also a saloon rob-
berry, the money and jewelry being
taken after the victim a been
drugged.
There was an air of tenseness around
the courtroom as the men were ar
raigned. as a rumor was aioat that
some demonstration might be made by
friends of the prisoners. Constables
and county detectives thronged the
rooms and corridors leading to 1T long
before the men were arraigned. and
every one going into the courtroom
was closely scrutinized. Comparatively
few people were in the courtroom, eX-
cent attaches, when the men were
finally arraigned shortly after IL
o'clock.
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