The northwestern bulletin., 1922-09-16
Grisly Symbol Orders ldolph
to Stop Attacks on Gaavey's
Improvement Society.
ENMITY is STIRRED BY
OPPOSITION TO GARVEY
Hand in Box, Sent by Mails from
New Orleans, Causes Probe
BY p. O. Officials.

New York City. Sept. ia hum
an hand, evidently that Of Negro,
was received last week by A. Philip
Randolph, editor OF the Messenger.
in a package that had been mailed
from New Orleans.
With the hand was a typed letter,
signed "K. X. K" threatening Rah-
dolph for his expressions against the
Kian, and, by intimation, for his OPP
position to Marcus Garvey.
The package, slightly smaller than
a shoebox, was brought to Randolphs
Office by a letter carrier at 1:45 p. m.
yesterday afternoon. The paper wrap
per had been marked. From a
Friend, New Orleans" Postage had
been paid with nine two-cent stamps.
Police Open Package.
When the editor started to open
It a whitish powder sifted out. Be
cause of threats received in the last
few weeks he became alarmed and
gingerly placed the bundle on table.
Suggesting that it might contain a
bomb, his assistant, Chandler Owen,
called the police. Detectives McFar-
land and Butler of the West 135th
Street Station were sent.
TIL detectives placed the package
in a pail of water and 'unwrapped 1t,
disclosing the hand, which had been
cut off Just below the left wrist and
which was beginning to decompose
Apparently the white powder had
been used as preservative. The
letter. inclosed In an envelope, said:
Listen, Randolph:
eve have been watching your writ
ings in all your papers for quite a
while but we want you to understand
before we act. If you are not in favor
with your own race movement you
can't be with ours. There is no space
In our race for you and your creed.
What do you mean by giving us
Niger? Do you know that our orga-
nization is made up Of all whites?
"We have sent you sample OF our
good work, so watch your step or else
you-Now let me see your name In
your niger improvement association
as a member, paid up too. In about
one week from now. Don't worry
about lynching in South. If you were
here you wouldn't talk about 1t. Now
be careful how you publish this iet-
ter in your magazine or we may have
to send your hand to some one else.
"Don't think we can't get you and
your crowd. Although you are in
New York City it is just as easy as
If you were in Georgia. If you can't
unite with our own race we will
find out what's the matter with you
all. Don't be selfish. Give your
friends a tip.
XXX. X"
Mailed from New Orleans
The detectives took the hand to
their station house. They We're in
some doubt as to whether 1t had
come from New Orleans since in plac-
ing the bundle in water. the post
mark had been blurred. Randolph
said, however, that he noticed the
postmark before the detectives ar
rived and that the package undoub-
tedly came from New Orleans.
When it was suggested that the
missive could have been meant as a
gruesome joke, Randolph said: "I'm
convinced that 1t was intended seri-
ously, for I have made number of
enemies and have received many
threats, both oral and written. am
inclined to believe that the package
was sent by white man or men and
by some one really connected with
the Ku Klux Khan. A Negro would
hardly be so calculating in a thing
of this kind, and Negro wouldn't
be likely to get hold of the hand"
He was certain that the threaten
fhg letters refernce to "your niger
improvement association meant the
Universal Negro Improvement Asso-
citation, Marcus Garvey's prganiza-
tion. Randolph has been active In
opposing Garvey. For months every
issue of his magazine has contained
scathing denunciations of Garvey
and Of the Ku Klux Klan.