United States v. Salvatore Lima et al.: trial file with the verdict of 29 January 1910

Companion National Archives file to the Marion, Ohio, Black Hand indictment: the catalog note says it holds the indictment, the threatening letters in Italian with translations, other filings, and the verdict of 29 January 1910 finding the defendants guilty.

Date: 1910-01-29
Kind: case-file
Source: National Archives Catalog
Retrieved: 2026-10-12
NAID: 219793791
Rights: A record of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, Western Division, held by the National Archives at Chicago in Record Group 21. A United States government work, public domain in the United States under 17 U.S.C. § 105. The National Archives catalog lists access and use as unrestricted.

The National Archives describes this file with the same caption and defendants as the indictment file (NAID 219793790). Its catalog note says it includes the indictment, copies and originals of the threatening letters written in Italian, translations, and various other court filings, and that in the verdict filed on 29 January 1910 the jury found the defendants guilty. The note adds that the exhibits also relate to case 1333 (NAID 219793789), which was not opened.

The file has 524 digital pages, which were not read page by page. This page relies on the catalog note. The Post Office Department’s 1916 album records the sentences passed at Toledo on 29 January 1910, from two to ten years, for “conspiring, with others, to obtain $10,000 by means of black-hand letter mailed at Marion, Ohio, June 7, 1909” (album entries).

No page image from this file is stored; the page shows a document plate.

itemUnited States v. Salvatore Lima et al.: the Marion, Ohio, Black Hand indictment, December 1909 (case file)National Archives case file for the federal indictment of sixteen men in the Northern District of Ohio, filed 11 December 1909, charging a conspiracy begun at Marion, Ohio, to use the mails to defraud by threatening letters as members of an organisation the indictment calls 'The Black-Hand'.

itemIndictment, United States v. Salvatore Lima et al.: the 'Black-Hand' averment (file page 5)A page of the 1909 Marion, Ohio, indictment charging that the defendants were members of an organisation 'known and designated as "The Black-Hand"' and would send anonymous letters 'written in a Sicilian dialect of the Italian language' demanding money under threat. The government's charge, quoted as the record's words.itemPost Office album (1916), volume 2: the Marion, Ohio, black-hand letter conspiracy, sentences of 29 January 1910 at ToledoEntries in the 1916 Post Office album record sentences passed at Toledo on 29 January 1910, from two to ten years, for 'conspiring, with others, to obtain $10,000 by means of black-hand letter mailed at Marion, Ohio, June 7, 1909'.