New Britain herald., 1929-12-09
Blackhand Letters and Quarrels
 Over Other Woman Only Clues In
 Bomb Blast Killing Three Children
Father Questioned, But Proves He Was Away in Pennsylvania - Young sters Preparing to Go to Church, Blown to Bits.

Brooklyn, x. Y, Dec. 2 tUp)-- Threatening blackhand letters and tamily quarrelS over an "other Wom- "n' provided the only clues police had today in their hunt for q tieud = ish murderer whose bomb killed three children as they prepared for church.
 The bomb. wrapped as a Christ mas package. was left on a kitchen table in the home of Joseph Fal- conc, wcll-to-do resident of an Italian ncighborhood. Three of Fall %onc's five children found it when fhcy got up yesterday morning. They acclaimed happily as they saw the christmas trimmings. Mary Is and Philip 13, wore instantly killed. Rose. <, was mortally pierced by steel Jugs which the bomb contained.
 Father SWears Vengeance
 falzonc. partner in q stone-cut ing plant, was held for questioning ljc said he returned to the city last night from a hunting trip of several days in Pennsylvania. His story was ''otllllItNN'l l'N IblI Noill I'dIllOl Nho swore he had been with them constantly since last Thursday. He SWore to kill those who did this thing"
 FalzOne immediately recalled let ters he received last month demand : >ng money and warning him 10 get out of the country Police investi- gated these missivcs at the time and hen dropped the matter at Fal . ZOne's instance. Today they re- Ioubled efforts to locate the sender.
 The first note read:
 We want S6.0o0, and after that you arc not finished. You get out of this country and go back 10 Italy"
 1t bore skull and crossbones.
 Another note directed I'alzonc to leave the money on boat To Boston, \ detective arranged to go on the hOat with him on the designated boat. i'alzone, however, did not him next day in Boston. where he said he had taken the wrong boat.
 Threatened For Telling
 I ne third letter told l'alzone the Hrtcr know he had tolg police, and 3ddcd; Tt won't be well for you HOW. Wo arc going to kill you."
 Mrs Falzone. quiotcd from the hvstcria which followed the cNplo- slon, told police of trouble she had had with her husband. She sought once last summer to have him ar rested for threatening to kill her, but then withdrew the charge. She aaid EaIzone had been intimate with a divorcce for many years and that his woman had written her that 'alzone was the father of her three yrar old son. The woman. Mrs Fay ,'toehrer @9. was questioned by po- lice in secret
 The Falzone family arose carly yesterday morning. Mary was 10 partalle Of her first holy communion, The three eldest children dressed themselves. while Mrs. ralzone took are of Patsy, ,, and Sally. 3, in q front room.
 Go into the kitchen and make coffee while I finish dressing the aabes,' Mrs. I'alzonc told Philip.
 He obcyod. his two sister accom- nHnying him to help. On the kitch- table was the large brown pack age. Perhaps Santa Claus had come ,arly. Philip reached for the pack age. There was q terrific explosion.
 Girl Hit By Fragments
 Philip and Mary were hurled across the room. They died almost instantly. Rose. who had been stand m- at a distance, was hit by steel fragments from the bomb, which was fashioned from a 10 inch piece of pipe. She died on the way 10 q hospital.
 Mrs. Falzonc and the other two children were hurled 10 the floor m the front room.
 The explosion blew a two foot hole in the kitchen floor and q simi- lar ono in the ceiling, and joltcd the house from it's foundations. It rock nd building for blocks away, includ- ing a police station.
 Tn a few moments the police ar rived, guided by the smoke which poured from the windows. They picked up the bodies of the three children. In Marys hand were the remnants of d $lO bill her mother mad given her to take to church. IL had been torn to bits,