Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1909 — DISMEMBERED BODY FOUND [ARTICLE]

DISMEMBERED BODY FOUND

“Black Hand” In Big Red Letters on Bundles Left With Boy. New York, June 11.—The dismembered body of a man, with the head missing, was found by the police neatly clone up in two bundles of brown paper and black oiled cloth. The bundles had been left under charge of a 'small boy by a stranger who had promised him 5 cents to watch them till he came back. On the wrappings was written in letters of red tbrpe inches high, “Black Hand.”