Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1909 — BUCK HANDERS SCATTERING [ARTICLE]

BUCK HANDERS SCATTERING

Clean-Up In Eastern Cities Drives Extortionists to New Fields. New York, June II. —The theorj that the various blackmailing crimes unearthed from time to time in every part? of the country have been committed by members of a national mafia or Black Hand society, is not taken seriously by members of the New York detective bureau who have devoted their attention to this particular species of lawbreaking. The recent clean-up of eastern cities following the killing of Detective Petrosino in Italy is believed by them to have forced the Black Handers Inland, where their activity is only now becoming felt.