to this place to break up the Black Hand society, which has been terrorizing ... Mrs. Lucy Pezzoni, the wealthiest Italian woman in Western Pennsylvania, who was threatened with death if she ...

Officials say both of them were investigating the "Black Hand Society,” which was a criminal ... Henry and Zehringer were the first state troopers in Pennsylvania to die in the line of duty.

To-day she received a roughly printed letter, signed by the "Black Hand Society." notifying her that poison had been administered to her and that if it failed to take effect the senders would ...

A few were also on the lam. Before the Mafia captured the American crime spotlight in the 1920s, there was the Society of the Black Hand, which made ends meet by terrorizing and extorting fellow ...

The Society of the Banana was one such criminal syndicate operating in Ohio, western Pennsylvania and maybe elsewhere. (The amount of coordination between Black Hand groups was always a matter of ...

INSPECTOR OLDFIELD AND THE BLACK HAND SOCIETY: AMERICA’S ORIGINAL GANGSTERS AND THE U.S. POSTAL DETECTIVE THAT BROUGHT THEM TO JUSTICE By William Oldfield and Victoria Bruce Touchstone ...

Joseph Petrosino (far right) leads a Black Hand suspect to court. From The Black Hand, by Stephan Talty. (Library of Congress photo) As the 19th century came to a close, New York became the ...