Several foreign citizens received what they termed “black hand extortion letters.”  One man by the name of Angelo, employed at the open hearth, displayed a letter demanding that $5,000 be placed at a certain spot or his life would be taken.   The intended victims did not report their cases to the authorities, but merely among their friends.   Consequently, the officers had nothing definite upon which to work.

• Steubenville Herald Star,  “Follansbee News,” October 7, 1921, p. 14.