Record
The Day Book (Chicago, Ill.)
1912-09-20
Page Page 3
The Day Book (Chicago), 20 September 1912, page 3: 'More Black Hand' in Peoria
MORE BLACK HAND
- Paper
- The Day Book (Chicago, Ill.)
- Date
- 1912-09-20
- Page
- Page 3
- Headline
- MORE BLACK HAND
- 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 3 of the Day Book, Friday, 20 September 1912. A wire item from Peoria, Illinois, says the “Black Hand letter habit” had reached Peoria: the State’s Attorney, who was preparing indictments against a former school superintendent, was receiving anonymous threatening letters, one of them signed “Black Hand” and written in shorthand.
The item shows the phrase “Black Hand” used for an anonymous threat that had nothing to do with extortion among Italian immigrants. The 1916 Post Office album records a similar use of “black-hand letters” in federal mail cases outside Italian communities (album, volume 1).
No scan of this page is stored: the Library of Congress image service was unavailable when the page was filed.