# Indictment, United States v. Salvatore Lo Bue, first page (Northern District of Illinois, 1915)

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-355459444-lo-bue-indictment-p21/

Typed first page of the federal indictment charging that Salvatore Lo Bue devised a scheme to defraud Frank D'Amico by threatening to kill him and his family and destroy his home unless he paid one thousand dollars.

This is file page 21 of the case file [NAID 355459444](/items/nara-355459444-us-v-lo-bue-1915/). It is headed "In the District Court of the United States of America for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division," and reads that the grand jurors "upon their oath present that one Salvatore Lo Bue (hereinafter called defendant), late of the city of Chicago ... had devised a scheme and artifice to defraud one Frank D'Amico," namely that "unless he, the said Frank D'Amico, gave up and delivered to him, the said Salvatore Lo Bue, the sum of one thousand dollars, he, the said defendant, would cause the death of him, the said Frank D'Amico, and would cause the deaths of the members of the family of him ... and would destroy the home of him."

The indictment is the grand jury's charge. The words "Black Hand" do not appear on this page. The image is the National Archives' scan, stored here as a reduced copy (930 by 1500 pixels).

## Sources

- National Archives Catalog: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/355459444