The sun., 1910-02-25
THREATS TO MRS. HAVEMEYER
YOUNGSTERS TRY BLACKHAND-
ING WIDOW or SUGAR HEAD.

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Poison Her Food n She Did Not Pay
S7,SOO-TwO Boys Arrested When
They Went 10 Central Park for Money
Two small boys arrested last night are
! accused OF sending BLACK Hand letter
to Mrs. Henry o. Havemeyer Of 1 East
Sixty-sixth street. widow of the head OF
the American Sugar Refining Company.
The letter was received by Mrs Have
meyer on February rs 1t contained
demand for - 800 and threatened TO blow
up her home and destroy everybody in 1t
unless its demands were complied with.
This is the letter:
we demand 50 500 OF you as Black
Hand organization contribution, and II
| not forthcoming we viii blow up your
house and kill your whole family. We
have ass members scattered all over the
world You cannot escape us. Do not
tell the police or anybody else. for your
family will suffer only
IF you do. no matter IL you offer us
siO0. 900 We will not let up Rich people
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bother and we protect them. II you do
We will blow up your house and destroy
everybody in it with revolver or dagger
and send them poisoned food
At this point the text OF the letter is in
terrupted by a rough sketch OF a heart
pierced by a dagger. a revolver and
bottle marked poison The letter con-
tinues:
After you pay the $500 you will be
free OF all expenses. Take twenty
five 500 bills on February "a. Thursday
evening between 8 and Q O'Clock. De-
posit il in a tin box which you will find
in wood leaves on the ground close
at the park wall OF first light post at right
hand. small entrance 10 Central Park,
between Sixty-eighth and Sixty-ninth
streets. opposite your house. and let it
stay there until you will get letter from
US that we received it.
At the end OF the letter is a rough dia-
gram showing the park wall and the en-
trance. Mrs. Havemeyer notified Police
Headquarters at once and Detectives
Boyle. Daily and Dwyer were put on the
case. They did not go 20 the house, but
Mrs. Havemeyer met Boyle at a hotel.
When he asked II she suspected anybody
in her household she told him that some
time ago her chauffeur had two boys ar
rested for stealing a couple OF automobile
tires. The boys are now out on a sus-
pended sentence Mrs. Havemeyer
thought that perhaps these boys might
be seeking revenge. Boyle told her to
go ahead and follow the directions given
in the letter. except with regard to the
amount OF money.
Boyle's instructions were to mark
81 bill. wrap IL around other paper,
add then go over to the spot indicated,
put it in the tin box and then go home.
Boyle assured Mira. Havemeyer that the
police would give her ample protection.
for there would be plenty Of detectives
close by.
| AZ five minutes past o'clock last night
Mrs Havemeyer left her house. She
crossed the street and went to the wall.
With the explicit directions contained in
the letter she had no difficulty in finding
under some leaves a small tin tobacco
box Mrs. Havemeyer put the wad of
paper with its dollar bill wrapping inside
and returned to her home The detectives
secreted all about waited
Almost an hour to the minute after
that At s:is o'clock. two boys came up
to the park wall. went TO the lamp post
and picked up the box. Then they jumped
back over the wall and started up~Fifth
avenue.
Detective Dwyer caught the larger OF
the two-neither one is very big The
youngster said he was George Stahl. IS
years old OF 1915 Thifd avenue. The
other lad was nabbed by Detective Boyle.
He gave his name as Samuel Williams and
said he lived at 285 East Seventy-eighth
street and was years old
The detectives questioned the boys
separately. Stahl said that he met a
man at Seventieth street and Third
avenue last night and that the man had
told him that IL he would go over to this
spot in the park and get a package for
him he would pay him. He said the man
was big and had a black mustache. The
other boy told the same story. but the
man he described as smooth shaven.
The detectives are inclined to think there
was no such man.
The pair were locked up at Police Head
quarters. On Stahl was found a list OF
books, including such titles as Two
Years Before the Mast John o. the
Woods" Mad Anthony's Young Scout,
The Red Chief Marching Against the
Iroquois' and The Rider OF the Black
Horse Stahl stoutly denied any knowl-