Record
The Day Book (Chicago, Ill.)
1912-01-20
Page Page 30
The Day Book (Chicago), 20 January 1912, page 30: a Black Hand letter in Ashtabula
No headline: one paragraph in an untitled column of brief news items
- Paper
- The Day Book (Chicago, Ill.)
- Date
- 1912-01-20
- Page
- Page 30
- Headline
- No headline: one paragraph in an untitled column of brief news items
- Rights
- A United States newspaper published in 1930 or earlier. Public domain in the United States. The Library of Congress serves the page from Chronicling America.
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.