Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1915 — Girl's Story of “Black Hand" Attack Is Laid to “Movies." [ARTICLE]

Girl's Story of “Black Hand" Attack Is Laid to “Movies."

Bicknell, Ind., April 1. gation of the report that pretty Miss Carona Chasteen, ie years old, was gagged and bound to a telephone pole near her home by persons who had been sending her “black hand” letters, resulted in the assertion of police here, today that the affair was a joke. The young woman frankly admitted that her story was a "fake" and she seemed highly pleased that her efforts caused such a stir. The girl had declared that she was attacked as she went from her home to a well for water and that her parents found her inesnsible and bound to the pole. The girl is a motion picture “fan” and gained her idea from the “movies.”