Record
Case file
1914-05-08
Internet Archive (digitised copy)
Post Office album (1916), volume 2: black-hand letters from Wehrum, Pa., sentences of 8 May 1914 at Pittsburgh
Three entries in the 1916 Post Office album record that three men were sentenced at Pittsburgh on 8 May 1914 to five years each in the Eastern Penitentiary at Philadelphia for mailing black-hand letters at Wehrum, Pa., in March 1914.
- Date
- 1914-05-08
- Kind
- case-file
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-12
- Rights
- Published by the Post Office Department, Office of the Chief Inspector, and printed by the Government Printing Office in 1916. A United States government work, public domain in the United States under 17 U.S.C. § 105. The Internet Archive record reads "Not in copyright. The Library knows of no copyright restrictions on this item."
Three entries in volume 2 of the Post Office Department’s 1916 album (printed pages about 357 to 359) record that three men were sentenced at Pittsburgh on 8 May 1914 to five years each in the Eastern Penitentiary of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, with a fine of $100 and costs, for mailing black-hand letters at Wehrum, Pa., on 2 and 9 March 1914 (History file 24979).
This is the only Pittsburgh-area federal Black Hand prosecution found in the research for this section. No newspaper page on the case could be opened: the Library of Congress newspaper service was unavailable during the research. The album does not describe Wehrum.
The album prints a photograph, Bertillon measurements and a physical description of each person. This archive does not reproduce or summarise those, and names no one from the album who is not already the subject of a court file filed here. Printed page numbers were read from the Internet Archive’s OCR text and should be checked against the scan before they are cited.