The evening world., 1911-09-05
BUSY BLACK HAND
CAUSES PANIC BY
SIXTEENTH BOMB
Explosion IN Hallway Follows
Two Demands for $1,000
Blackma1
DOORS ARE BLOWN OFF.
Occupants of Tenement and
Neighbors ~Stampeded to
the Street

Following two demands inst Ne pay
nc 300 to the Black Hand. both OF ~nsm
wsre ignored, Rutillo Colarusso. VINO
ives on the third o Of No. IN Frs
avenue with his wife. Marie, and sx
children, wa frightened from his slum-
bsre early this morning by the terrific
explosion OF a bomb in the hallway IT.
side his rooms. II was the sixteenth
Black Hand bomb explosion In new
York City since Aug. g.
Three doors were blown from their
hinges, the plaster was Knocked down
along the hail. several windows broken
and n hole a foot square ripped through
the noor.
-Four families live IN the bualdinG. .
four-story tenement The ground hoor =
occupied by Charles vassmon. q grocer.
In the basement Coiarusso has . coel
ana wood cellar. He also runs a place
OF the same sort II No. - nAst NSnrh
street.
Colarusso has lived ~ ths F1rt svs-
nue. address for seven years, and sAys
he got his frvt Black Hand letter hst
July. Just after he opened the Nfnfh
street place He received . notification
from the postal authorities thaA . let
ter, insuficiently stamped. was held
for him In Brooklyn Colarusso ssnt
che postage and received . written
notice to the ecsct ehas n had been
decresd that 10 pAy $1,000 - ths MAno
Nero. No place was dHtouaosd bow.
ever, where the money shouad b paAA.
and Co,arusso made ~ ~ mAnA ~ \
was . Joke.
Last week AnoehsP heeR eams ~
specting M AsmnA m Q.oM ootA
letters were sOnsd "o6Ans Nero" md
tho second addsd sha& unless Coiarueso
paid At oncs ~ wife and ax dslldrsn
would b killed 0tni Ooaasuno syu.
there were 90 directions bow o. whsn
or whore the money wa 10 b paad.
BOMB PLACED IN HALLWAY
AFTER PARTY.
Last night che CohruaDoD AAA . yar1.
Il broke up Ahoue Il o'oisuk end WITT
body went homA. TAo 5an1tss. 0Asa
Lepsr, had looked ~ nsoe oosv -
usual. and CoaArusso - - - own
and Let the oomoan1 oue Tnsu. ~
Gays. he locked the door agaAn and wsnk
UP to bed.
The police believe that whoever paaosd
the bonn had . key 20 the front door.
Mary vassmon. who slceus on tho sec
ond floor. says that about ] o'clock she
heard stealthy steps going upstaids. but
thought 1t was one OF tho Colarusso
children who had been out late. A few
minutes later the footsteps came down
again. much more rapidly This struck
her as unusual. and h opened her
door and looked out. No ono was "a
he seen. She remembers that she heard
a faint sizzling noise from the hallway
above. but says she paid little attention
10 It. She had hardly closed the door
before the explosion came.
Disorder and wild confusion followed
tho dctonatlon. The hallway was SO
flled with fine particles OF dislodgeC
plaster that the frightened tenants
thought the house was on fire and SCI
up screams for help. Policeman Martin
OF the Fifth street station. however
prevented n fire alarm being turned In
and the reserves quieted the neigh
borhood after IA hour OF tumult.
Colarusso denies that no is In an,
way related to Antonio Colarusso OF No
lSS First avenue. where a Black Han,
bomb was exploded on Aug. II Just aftes
q visi, from the s,ork.