Record
The Day Book (Chicago, Ill.)
1912-09-03
Page Page 29
The Day Book (Chicago), 3 September 1912, page 29: Black Hand letters to the Rockefeller household
THREATEN JOHN D.'S LIFE
- Paper
- The Day Book (Chicago, Ill.)
- Date
- 1912-09-03
- Page
- Page 29
- Headline
- THREATEN JOHN D.'S LIFE
- 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 29 of the Day Book, Tuesday, 3 September 1912. A wire item datelined Tarrytown, N.Y., says that John D. Rockefeller’s secretaries had received Black Hand letters demanding a large sum and threatening the family, and that armed guards had been posted at Pocantico Hills. It says some of the letters were mailed from Palermo, which it calls “the real home of the Black Hand,” and refers to “Lieut. Joe Petrisino” (the paper’s spelling) as having been murdered there.
This is a press report only. On 11 September the Day Book printed its own correspondent’s account that he found no guards on the estate and that the story had been stretched (The Day Book, 11 September 1912). No record filed here confirms the letters. The phrase about Palermo is the paper’s.
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