# The Day Book (Chicago), 20 January 1912, page 30: a Black Hand letter in Ashtabula

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A one-paragraph item in the Chicago Day Book of 20 January 1912 reports a Black Hand letter demanding $1,100 from a man in Ashtabula, Ohio, with the columnist's sardonic comment.

Page 30 of the Day Book, a small Chicago daily, Saturday, 20 January 1912. In an untitled column of short paragraphs, one item reports that a Black Hand letter demanding $1,100 was sent to a man in Ashtabula, Ohio, threatening death "in a silent and mysterious manner." The columnist remarks that the writer must have been reading Hearst papers.

The item is filed as an example of how a wire paragraph about a threatening letter was printed and mocked in 1912. It is not a Chicago case, and nothing on the page says whether the letter led to an arrest. The man's name is given only as the OCR reads it on the Library's page and is not repeated here.

No scan of this page is stored: the Library of Congress image service was unavailable when the page was filed.

## Sources

- Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045487/1912-01-20/ed-1/?sp=30