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POLICEMAN SEES TWO MEN SHOT IN Shouts as Shotgun Is Levelled, but Too Late to Save Victims. CULMINATION OF FEUD. Man Out of Prison Found His Enemies Together on Busy Street Corner. Policeman John McTiernan of the \Amity etreet police station, Brooklyn, nought he was dreaming to-day when jhe Saw in the bright sunlight a doubie- barrelled shotgun levelled at the backs nf two men standing on the corner of fnckert and Ificks streets, Behind the un an Italian, bent over, was taking fareful aim. “Hi, there!” yelled McTiernan as he coblized that he was looking at the first $p of what was @urely intended to be ouble murder, “Watcha doing with t gun?” Ie sprang forward in the Ope of reaching the man in time, but 4 roar from one barrel answered his (ll. The second barrel spoke heavily sfmmediately after. } The two men on the corner dropped yto the street with a double shout of pain and fear. The man with the gun siung his weapon under his arm and made & { down after a chase of half a block. The shots from the two barrels brought a crowd rushing to the two wounded men and an ambulance was called from the Holy Family Hosp! ‘The wounded men were found to ve in precarious shape, for byckshot had boon used. Both were riddled about the mid- dle of the body. They gave their names as Anthony Fortuna of No. 16 Union street and Francisco Fumano of No. 16 Union street. McTiernan’s prisoner was Giovanni Sing Sing after serving a term for burgiary, He refused to giv lice any information, but It was learned that his act was the result of @ feud im the Union street Italian colony which has already cost one life. Fumaflo, the police learned, had been charged with the killing of Anthony Romeo, but on trial proved an alibi and was acquitted. Romeo was a close friend of Manghizita. at the time of his murder and he sw Vengeance. As soon as he net fr he bought a shotgun and shells loaded with buckshot. Next he walted his op- portunity to get both men at one time and he did it to-day in broad daylight at a busy corner. Fumano got the second barre!. He ywd turned slightly as his companion Gcopped and some of the buckshot en- de and breast. The shooting was done at about ten paces, just far enough to give a wide spread to the shot. Manghizita was arraigned in the Hut ler street Police Court and heid without rail a ee MOTHER GOOSE 1N TOWN, HOSTESS TO CHILDREN. Story-Book Lady and Her Quaint Brood Entertain the Crippled and BROAD DAYLIGHT break to get away. McTiernan ran liim | Manghizita, only recently released from | the po-| He was in prison| THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, MARCH i ~~ Copyright, 191 | | i | | STRIPED TROUSERS | errect |Marechal Neil Remembers the Easter Girls of the | °60’sand ’70’s With Their Flowing Hoops, Low Cut Bodices and Wreathed Curl The Newer Flowers Will Recall the Sheath Skirt and the Harem Garment—They Will Have Laughed Secretly at the Hobbles of Last Year. | They Will See the Easter Girl as She Appears To- Morrow in a Gown of Many ‘olors, a Bulgarian | | Sash, a Slashed Skirt With Leather Trimmings. BY NIXOLA GREELEY-SMITH. The Easter lilies are wearing their last year's clothes. They are still ‘elad in green and white and their waistlines are exactly where they were ‘twenty years ago. The crocuses are atjll gold and violet upstarts. It has not occurred to them that they would the spring grass if they should change the color and the cut of their Easter costumes. The Queen Rose is not wondering how she would look in a trouser skirt, and the violet is not planning to have a touch of Bul- sarlan embroldery on her blue suit. or two hundred years ago they look to-day from the florist's window, or will nod to-morrow from the church altar, Meantime, what changes have come over the devout worshippers, the femfnine churchgoers, to whom the sentimentalist refers sometimes as human flowers. How bewildered the roses and violet will be as they look down upon the congregation to- morrow morning. Every season's bud on the altar, whether she is the grand- daughter of General Jacqueminot or the greatniece of Marechal Net), must have heard since her infancy of the Easter parade and the display of feminine beauty it permits. Yet this display will differ so Tedloaly from what their grand- fathers and uncles have told them about the memories of their youth that it is doubtfal whether those fine old veterans of the rose transformed into a papal soua' with baggy trousers tucked into high gaiters you will know that you have met next ‘icater’s girl. But I don't think you are very likely meet her, at that. Although every present a more striking contract with | Such as they were twenty years ago} Changes in Easter Fashions in 40 Years by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World). ZOVAVE TROUSERS Noted by Flowers That Never Change EGYPTIAN MOTIF ‘PEEPING TOM CAUCHT ON ROOF AFTER GIRL GIVES POLICE ALARM | ing, Sees Youth Gazing From Edge of Housetop. While Misa Dorothy Stember, a pret- ty school teacher, was preparing to go to bed last night in her apartment on the top floor of No, 229 West One Hundred and Eleventh street, she heard a sound just above her opened Pretty School Teacher, Retir- TATTOOED CRUX ON ARM OF A ROBBER BETRAYS HIS IDENTITY | Hold-Up Man Confesses When Bertillon System Disproves His Denials, A crucifix, tattooml on his right arm above the figures 1910," was the means of getting John Donbell, nineteen years old of No. Broome to con- fess to the police, to-day, his #hare in street, 22, 1918. ‘EX-GOV. BLACK | TO BE CREMATED; WAS OWN WISH >. | | | Body Will Lie in State at Home , | in Troy Monday and Funer- | al Held on Tuesday. lateicaeae WILL ATTEND. ' Governor Issues Proclamation and Pays Tribute to Dead —Senate Acts. TROY, N. Y., March 22--The body of-Goy, Frank 8, Black, who ded early to-day, will lie in state at his home on Pinewoods avenue, thia city, on Mon- day from noon until 3 P.M. The funeral services will be heki on Tues. day and will be private. | Mr. Black favored cremation as the | Method af final diaposttion of the body and tn accordance with hie views and those of hie family the body will be |ncinerated at the Kart Crematory in | Oakwood Cometery, ALBANY, March 22. a |the death of Frank 8. Biaek, former ; Governor of New York, and after tel ing his career and extolting his quattt |am @ citizen and public efMteial contin- ued: |. “In order to appropriately express in | dehalt of the people respect for the! ; Public services of Frank 8 Black, I, | | William stulser, Governor of the Sta: of New York, request that the flags up- on all public butldings, Incitding ar- mortes and aracnals, be displayed at half mast until and including the day of via funeral, and that the Legislature of {the State and all its citizens unite tn | Paying aulable rempect to the memory | Of & former Governor, who was true to | the best traditions of the State.” The Governor sent a personal mea- jaddition to the proclamation paid this | tribute to the former Governor: | “Frank 8, Black and I were friends for more than # quarter of @ century, | We served together in Congress. 1 ad- | mired his ability and his sterling quall- (les as a man and a oltizen standing |at all times for ctvic righteousness, “In his death our State loses one of her most distinguished citizens and our country a patriotic son, My thearttelt sympathy goes out to his retativer and friends, [ mourn and grteve with them.” ‘The Governor and other State officials will attend the funeral at Troy on Tues- day afternoon. ee HAD PLANNED REST FOR LIFE ON FARM. Frank 8, Black, former Governor, keen lawyer, deep student of the affairs of men and of states and—leaat known of hin attributes—@entle philosopher and | dreamer on Hfe'n ulttmate values, pass- ed away Just as his fondest scheme of was on the verge of realiz For years he had hurled himself in the very thick of the bitter fight for preter- ment, for power, applau N that ts counted the supreme reward of deavor in thin roaring, crushing existence of the twentieth eentury, He had been ja strong swimmer tn the political wh! EX-GOV. BLACK, WHO DIED IN EARLY HOUR OF MORNING. (Copyright, Gewport, New York.) — clean, Compare it with thts. “When will men learn that to be able to live an extra thirty days over some other man ie more important than the accumulation of wealth? When will they learn that every tick of the clock" Trinity's quarter-hour waa chiming—" they #0 much nearer the inevitable nd, and when will they pay heed to the warning given by brain and heart unbroken snow. singing the joys of age on a Sabine farm, this tall, thin vundle of nerves and mainspring of force spoke of the pity that other men could not check thelr mad rush before in the quiet of nature's own. “I know scores of men who would be to do aw T shall, and who threaten 0 he said. “But £ doubt their courage, Instead of going to the farm now, they will wait a year and go to Hot Springs. Every one knows that you can't defy nature. It's no sign that be use she does not always cry out when something happana that ahe don't know tt. She's been watching all the time, and you've got to pay the bunt, These words were spoken @ Little ove a year ago, and towday Frank Black patd the blil—in tu TOO POOR TO RIDE, WALKED oO MILES. Frank 8. Black wae born March 3, 13, In Limington, York County, Me. | and was the son of Jacob and Charlotte B. Black, He was reared on a farm and educated in the district echool, later ai d was editor of the John nad for # brief space, at a reputed sal- ary of $3 a week, Then he moved to Troy and si law and worked as a newepaper reporter. ‘The year he was admitted to the bar, 187) he was married to Miss Lots Hamlin, a Cape Cod echo! teach was always poor in hia youn days, White at college he hadn't five cents a day to spend, and on his pe odic returns home he usually walked, a distance of elghty miles, When his father died he assumed the family debte and paid every cent of them, al- though it took several years, In 18% Black was elected to Congress. He had taken little part in politics be- fore, though an ardent Republican, He came into prominence in Troy as pros ecutor of "Bat" Shea, a murderer, and in 1806 was elected Governor to succevd Levi P. Morton, who declined @ renom- the hold-up and robbery of James A.! pool and had triumphed with his name ination, Healthy at Waldorf. garden would recoguize the girl of | Stent of costume knows that man Window. Snatching off the coverlot of | Russell, a court stenigrapher of No. |unemirched: he had tixen to the top of | One of the first things he aid was to Mother Goose came into her own to-| 20138 tm any way related toorre- | NiN° ue fronsers trim woman hejher bed to protect herself from the! am West Ninety-fourth street ‘the legal professton with honor; he had | appoint Lou Payn, of Chatham, State Pi With many honk-honks, mob cap| "Metely descended from the girle |" pele Sete) Prdienpiay a ely) Sos Blane air, ane Jumped to the wine| Two men witacked Russell, last night, |Aocumulated riches suMclent to bring Superintendent of against y is, mol co a lem a | dow, slammed it cown an: tae zi Ve e | and hoop skirts, she descended upon a, Witt whom they flirted across the | 51.6 propery, and feeling that posses- r ‘own and pulled the! a, ne was crossing Third avenue at |contentment to most men, But Fate de- | much crittciam, Black's at, DUlpit forty or twenty Basters ago. shade. Then she snapped out the light. | reward In life, the! friend and the new Governo: a he group of children and “grown-ups sion is nine points of the law he rises ps ana (creed that his fina! Seventh street. th and those who were not and the parents themselves had a glorious time. Bidkar Le who said she was bes! kndwn as “Jack Sprat,” sang nurser rhymes and then Miss Faulkner tol the children the story of Ilansel and) Gretel, Aa the tale was told, the char-| acters of Humperdinok's story were an- acted by Mins Sue 8, Boice, Mra. Harvey Beit, Ri Miss Margery Moore, Mrs, Jessie Lockitt and the Misses Blanche Sylvia Cobacker. . Asc scsci a MEMORIAL TO BIGELOW. | That | Commi ne 100,000, ee wir nouncement was made to-day that a! committer as been formed to erect a emoris] to the late John B gelow, pu: Aiplomatist and Untted States Min- to Prance during the civil war form of the memorial hax not yet yn decided, but it is proposed to raise und of $100,000 to defray the vost The commitive consiats of Joseph H. fuente, Justice Charies KE. Huwhea, J.! nj Andrew ¢ jemie, | Osvorn, George Pim. | ain Root, relwon i ana| Cowles Alexanders Richmond, President! of Union College, of waich Mr. Bixelow! wag 4 graduate Hank Reserv 2M, tement of the 1 condt: | tion of Clearing House banks and trust | panies for the week sh wa that! they hold $13,558,200 reserve in exceas Thie ie en ine of lexal requirements, 98,7! |'908, when women chose to spoil their the! They will recall the sheath skirt und Georgene Faulkner, who calis! herself “The Story Lady." was Mother Goose of the occasion, Miss! | officers’ untform; a siashed skirt, !eather asked a direction by 1 young woman attired in a parody of masculine garb had answered: “Yes, my lord,” and {then overcome with confsion when he j*aw the narrow skirt which distin: guished her from the young gentleman {of the period, added “I mean, yes, my lady And here we are half through the | first quarter of the twentieth century |and trousers for women are still com- ing and haven't come, But this time, perhaps, the jupe zouave will really arrive. loveliest outlines with the balloon sleeve. the hideous harem garment. ‘They will have laughed secretly at the hobbles of t year. They will see the Easter Girl s she eppears before them to-morrow in @ gown of many colors, the more the} merrier; a Bulgarian sash, a coat which is only @ modification of the Bulgarian trimmings and chamois buttons, But not many of them will know, and they will be happter for not knowing, that vefore another Easter has enabled an- other florist to buy his daughter a duke _ |GAYNOR MUST APPEAR the human flow will appear frankly With ine stems ctuey wots: that | MONDAY IN CURRAN SUIT. users for women will be an accom: ; a pilehed fact Justice Page Puts Alderman’s Here is what M. Aron, editor of Le Costume Royale, had to say yesterday about the coming bifurcated beauty In our Paris letter, which has not yet appeared, there {8 an acoount of a new skirt which Is $100,000 Action for Libel at Head of Calendar, Unless Mayor Gaynor ix a the trial of Alderman Henry Hed the ‘june zouave, | , been evolved in Parts ave a train in the baci @ to wtay He Cur- # suit for $100,000 damaxes for al- libel, Mr. Gaynor wilt leged have to apvear in Justice Page's part of tne bat a trouser front. The trouser effec Supreme Court Monda ring at in front is ovtained by turning the ma- 1 y9 el In announcing his cat terial In and gat Cinte the (Ops | endar for Monday Justice Page to-day of the giiters.” er the Curran case at the head of the THE TROUSER SKIRT WILL AP. [factyrone | nen eh the calendar of) PEAR IN NEW YORK, | Pictures of this masterplece of eocen:\4 the 1 tricity have ady been patlishe cations for delays made by M Paris, and it is only a question of time! nor's lawyer phen C, Baldwin, tt woen it will appear in New York. | was ou understanding that Whether women sere will accept it or! y furthey postpone: would be not no man will venture to s wsked that Justice Plataek tate wees | Anyway, if you see a vision | aitowe! Mayor to wnend bla awe: gasing away from you that looks Uke s in4y im © court train end fagns we ‘duced him hurdling seven divisional roof walls “IT am Henry Burgess, an elevator builder of No, Elghth avenue,” he said, “and I was calling on iy xiri, who lives at No. 33 West One Hundred and Eleventh street. Her folks don't Ike me and have forbidden her to let me call, They were out last night and I took a chance. ‘They came in unex pectedly 1 ran to the roof. 1 was only waiting for a chance to slip dow: to the street.” Magistrate Murphy maid the story was interesting but not convincing and thar unless it could be proved true he was Inclined to send Burgess to the work- house for six months, The prisoner was held in $509 ball to give him an oppor tunity to get counsel. —— “BUSINESS ENGINEER” CHARGED WITH SWINDLE. Henry Doane Pftum, of No. 601 Wes! One Hundred and Thirty-fitch mtreet “business en held in $5,000 bail in Centre Street Court to-day iw Magiatrate McQuade on a charge that | bia engineering was too eccentric | within the law. Pfturn tw tre: | kenerad manager « | and Staff, Ine, @ concern doing busi Jat N Ghuroh street 1 Irving Murray tr. presitent of Witt jam BR. Jenkins & Co, stationers at No Sil Sixth avenue, charges that Prim by trie a to be n and device, to glye him nine notes for $7 eaeh on duly It and Aug. 15 last, one maturing each month thereafter, fui returned wha | purported to be the origina p [saving he was unanle to h Mu Charges 1 «were negotiated and k to hin s under $4 ef Phim ‘ ndtet ment charging @ sunilar orime made by! another iran picture of @ prisoner ois.” conve of | Reformatory. He denied tt was a ples ture of himself and denied } been arrested and viet to the photograph was notes giving the marks d ever Attached Hertilon bodtes tpon th fer In re ed At headuuerters: ! Rell up ye right sleey ordered (the Lieutenant in charge of the bureau, | You want to see the tattooed craci fix, don't you" asked the young pris joner, "There it's, You've got me. 1 wive in.” } The fingerprints finished tne identifica ition Donbell confessed to his share of the holdup when he saw how method, 1 fused to give any infor: LoS | SENATE HONORS BLACK, Adjourns Session a Wht Attend Fanerat, ALBANY, March 2. The day Appoinntmen Mr Black's steel He wil in & Mpecial car to norrow burglary in 1910 and sent to the Bimira | | EXPECTED TO RETIRE TO HIS | FARM NEXT MONTH. He had set nest month as the time \of hia retirement and the seeking of his | retreat to his 1,190 acres at Freedom, . H, The reat that he was to enter upon was what he had preached to his frienda with ail the fervor | uon. he hi of convie- But the philosophy Black taught nself could not live to practic who trades his vitaity for | ex-Gover once said, sin July when he should Jue away from his business forgetting tt land attending to himaelf. Can't he see there is only one end to his slavery—col- ‘\apse and a hurried trip to Hot Springs oy Hurope? His mistake haw been that he has made up his mind to defer reat fr indulge some cherished plan | or play unt! an afford to. When that ume | jeomes he doesn't want to, Tre whole [thing's lost it# zee, desire Is gone.” the Kentie philosopher: yet hinmaeif waited too long—too long a mont, maybe. The old habit of hiving, strabiing work mastered vy| ugh to be fatal to his reasoning | fect philosspoy w © deductions of the phi Bo spoke A moment lat ° r a the Waldorf-Astoria, who had come to| I think General Jacgueminot had] every now and then to plead the a BHA) WOR MP DEUS EHO | i athan: Subbed bln ot a Kold watch (ONO, he Most ardently yearned for in| would meke the appointment If the unt: i reached the height of his glory when rg | Shade aside half an ines and looked | | hin later years, was to be withheld from | verse caved in, And he did. hear her tell the stories that for years| Tea el eo tio minced | Jette of limitations against women's | our into tho moonlight she aaw'a ¥ Fand chain vaiued at $10, a check book | pin He made war on the State Civil Ser- have made sad infantile hearts, Gsep-| oe amet sets Tue a tite mat for fo reclaim her own inan standing on the ledge of the nee | and 20. The stenographer yelled for! ‘This was reat. vice Commission but lor tios of this ancient Jame'sPOpUIREIEY | oe ee ae ed ecetrly in tne elahteenth century thel Neuse lookin dows inte ne well be. {Help when the Angers dat his| A farm tn the rolling New Hegwpshire| later he saw his ideas Aas only. te foem lise bers age Gale and a huge festooned wkirt draped over Me aot peat Weaseesioet eae tween the tWo houses as thouga he hud {throat and Patrolinan Cahill of tie Fifth Country, well stocked with fat kin b oagsster under Gov, fery to learn that she !s popular as ever; add " i eB been turned to stone, reet station, hustled to the rescue, |#Miling with the fruition of crops; @ e break between Senator Platt and Wish. cullbeaty CErieh Andi page La ea re RSS Pieced Seca Shades snot) Miss Stomber ran to a telepivone ana He canta Bona contenant blocks | library’ In the farmhouse which would | Black arose over a bill to prevent, the Mie Une ogee Ginna ere e el Agiiety k ‘rena, | called the hea, nt be lined with the comfortable morocco | Printing of newspaper cartoons, Platt 4 , her to the Easter girls of the ‘60s and] delivered a homile to the w: a. | called the police of the Lenox avenne| and ran hin down. f h " dent of the Rubinstein Society, had in-| tier E a homile to the women read-| Stuttg, ag avenue on it as ‘of his favorite authors—-thia wax the} and Richard Croker were much dis. Vited the members of her soclety to! 0m, with ale read Hel low-cut} ers of the Spectator on the folly of| Patt Cnpeuiteccs sd te ey Fe eae ce thes Mehta cratay. Whon | teadia to which Frank Black hoped to| (Feased over some of ¢ toons that come and. hear Mother Coote tell bodices and wreathed curls. wearing a cocked hat and « tteht oost| sigin went fo weer enas curtazne ang] the crop of the. night's INARIa war in the atteraiow of his fe, ‘There| were ‘published, and Plate thought Black stories, only they must bring their galt \EVEN THE NEWER FLOWERS| !ke a man and predicted that troune: Paathae he seat i halite: When they} lin “a p : iba panel Pro ive was to find repose and the compan-| Would sign the bill. Black sent word dren with them. ose who had n would be the next thing in order. A he youth came out of ted 1 id declared he had) L, 1° \ . children borrowed them from tie Home| WILL RECALL SOMETHING. dison related that a yoke! upon being| MS trance, but they caught him ets sted. He was shown |!onship of a ripe philosophy fo Kim “Wey he pul pt ane. Fiat for Crippled Children, and the cripplet) the newer flowers will remember the o elected if renominated. Black put good fight, but lom the renomination at the Saratoga Convention in 1898 to The- odore Roosevelt. STARTED OUT TO GET A MiIL- LION, AND DID, Roo: and Black did not become friendly until 194, The late BH. Har- riman and others had decreed that | Roosevelt should ni cowed himaelt, | Black finally con to make the nominating apeech at the Chicago Con- vention. Immediately after the Roo It 1904 campaign Bixck was backed for | ted States Senator by Odell, but was defeated by Chauncey M. Depew About seven years ago ex-Gov, Black rtuaily retired from pglities, It bad ways been his amb{tion to accumu. $1,900,000 and retire at tie age of Some of his friends say he is worth bet one and two millions; others estimate his fortune at about half a militon | When he left the Governor's office tt | fa understood he was $100,000 in debt. | to New York and begin the t law, soon becoming noted v He can n the habit of opher coud not overcome the man and worker, machine | broke down before the hour for slow 1 Nis Broadway office y @ year ago and looked | tow al! the snow-| sheeted plinacles ar etwork of the and of Trin iitte man front he je bit iyard Just tnink will be for w what big | 7% & 800d book in my hand, snow "a large fees he received, At one Was @ parcier of Abe Gruber Among the persons for whont was omnes al va © Goslin, | Molineux, Canfleld, Wala) Borbridge, Hannah Bilas aed Mrs, Chad. | «, besides Caled Powers, charged with the Goebel murder tn Kentucky ry Blaok Was thought by many to took more like Abraham Lincoln than yoman alive fle was almost tall and of muscular ueh r bu He had a strong const! . due to his early privat He never drank aid neldo and ten yeare ago eut oo and allowed himoelf vut two meas of day. iv TH THREAT TO ROCKEFELLER Westchester Sheriff Thinks He Has Brains of Terrorists All Rounded Up. 6 HELD FOR MURDER. Black Hand Feud Aids Officers to Capture Men After Long Hunt. After dogsing for thirteen months tne |@tepa af the band of terrorists whose , tral of murder, dynamiting, robbery. assault, kkinapping and other orimes led ever most of Westchester County, Sheriff William J. Doyle and Chief of Police John Harmon of White Plates have captured thirteen men who they Delleve are the leaders of the much- . sought gang. The men are in the White Plains jail, It is thie gang, in the opinion of Chiet Harmon, that sent the death threats to © John D, Rockefeller and his son ast” September and caused the king to * employ a big armed guard at bis estate on Povantico Hills, During that reign of terror that lasted for several weeks two men were shot to death. In the Winter the Rockefeller guard was re- duced and since then there has deen ne cause to increase it. Even before the besieging of the Rockefeller home by the terrorists, who, , besides thelr other threats, promised to, kidnap John D, Rockefeller jr.'s two , children, Shemf Doyle and Chief Har- mon had been on the track of the Black Handers. But just when they thought they had the clan rounded up the lead- ere would vanish and the work would have to begin all over again, SIX ARE HELD ON CHARGES OF MURDEA, his prisoners actively participated in the terrorizing of the Rockefellers or in’ men in the White Plains Jail are ac- cused of being accessories to | der of Philipo Carida at in February last, and it is are connected with three other m: in White Plains that were while the bunt for the band was goin; on. The reign of crime in Westchester / County by the Black Handers began — about two years ago, but it was not {ll @ year later that the police picked Up Yireads that led them to the rcail- sation that there was an gave them the jong looked for clue. They followed this up and were closing BLACK HAND FEUD AIDS In’ BAND'S CAPTURE. When this was wettivd they took up the trail of the Carida affal: ‘They had litte hope of ever clearing up the mystery | when ® most unlooked-for event took out among the terrorists. Some of those who had been the most successful reb- vers and blackmellers suddenly found whey were the victims of their own crimes, eo Unable to retaliate tn kind, they made | ing t police and be- reprisa: to ti | Three weeks 'y gol traying thelr brethren. |ago Tony Marro was murdered in day- ‘light in the streets of White Pisins, De- tectl Frittit! arrested Pietro Rel- pucel, who was Identified as the slay Just previous to this killing Marro’ brother died of poison. ~This crime was charged to the band. The father of the me swore to avenge thelr murder. Soon after this the feud among the Black Handers ‘became more violent. ’ Night and day the fighting between the member the divided band has been goin and It |e feared the sp Mll-feeling will have serious results in the county. But while the blackmatier: nM fought among themselves they have ignored the reat of the community. ‘There {s also apprehension that the quarrel wil! spread to the thousands of men employed on the Catskill aqueduct. where the members of the “murder trust” have reaped thelr richest harvee* fsbbbinak aca crase, DIED FROM LACING SHOE. ped, Fractured Hie and Injury Preved Mortal. While vending over to lace his shoe George A. Blair, eignty-one yeara old, revetved Injuries that caused his dea: He lived with his son, Frank Blair, a No. %% Kingsland avenue, Coro Queens Borough He was lacing bis ehoe on Thursday last when the chair on which he was’ sitting supped and he fell backward to the floor, Fis right hip was frac: tured and the shock he sustained re- sulted in his death last night, Blair was a widower, The body will be sen: to Tribes Hill, Montgomery County, to- morrow for interment. adways ei