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  1. #OTD (Dec 19) in 1917, the father of murdered Pietro #Matranga - a former #LosAngeles #BlackHand gangster who became an informant - refuses to identify his son's remains.

    #MafiaHistory
    #Histodons @mafiahistory

  2. #OTD (Dec 19) in 1917, the father of murdered Pietro #Matranga - a former #LosAngeles #BlackHand gangster who became an informant - refuses to identify his son's remains.

    #MafiaHistory
    #Histodons @mafiahistory

  3. #OTD (Oct 26) in 1909, former #HillsvillePA #BlackHand leader Rocco #Racco is executed by hanging at New Castle PA for the 1906 #murder of Deputy Game Warden L. Seeley Houk.

    #MafiaHistory #Histodons @mafiahistory

  4. #OTD (Oct 26) in 1909, former #HillsvillePA #BlackHand leader Rocco #Racco is executed by hanging at New Castle PA for the 1906 #murder of Deputy Game Warden L. Seeley Houk.

    #MafiaHistory #Histodons @mafiahistory

  5. #OTD (Sep 17) in 1903, #Brooklyn merchant Nicolo #Cappiello receives a threatening letter signed 'La Mano Nera.' It arrives with two cents postage due.

    #MafiaHistory #Histodons #NYC @mafiahistory #BlackHand

  6. #OTD (Sep 17) in 1903, #Brooklyn merchant Nicolo #Cappiello receives a threatening letter signed 'La Mano Nera.' It arrives with two cents postage due.

    #MafiaHistory #Histodons #NYC @mafiahistory #BlackHand

  7. #OTD (June 14) in #OrganizedCrime #History: #BlackHand bomber is caught in #NYC, Narcotics Bureau is created, Midwest liquor syndicate members are indicted, #SanFrancisco boss passes, Tramunti returns to Sing Sing, two are convicted of #NewJersey murder, #Chicago mobsters kill #Spilotro brothers.

    #MafiaHistory #Histodons @mafiahistory

  8. #OTD (June 14) in #OrganizedCrime #History: #BlackHand bomber is caught in #NYC, Narcotics Bureau is created, Midwest liquor syndicate members are indicted, #SanFrancisco boss passes, Tramunti returns to Sing Sing, two are convicted of #NewJersey murder, #Chicago mobsters kill #Spilotro brothers.

    #MafiaHistory #Histodons @mafiahistory

  9. #OTD (June 14) in #OrganizedCrime #History: #BlackHand bomber is caught in #NYC, Narcotics Bureau is created, Midwest liquor syndicate members are indicted, #SanFrancisco boss passes, Tramunti returns to Sing Sing, two are convicted of #NewJersey murder, #Chicago mobsters kill #Spilotro brothers.

    #MafiaHistory #Histodons @mafiahistory

  10. #Buffalo residents report an attempted #BlackHand bombing #OTD in 1918. They turn over an explosive device to police. (They are arrested a few days later for placing the #bomb at their own home in order to frighten away some family members.)

    Read about this:
    writersofwrongs.com/2020/03/bo

    #Histodons

  11. ⬆️ @MaybeMyMonkeys

    >> They came pretty close to that last year when #Khalistan #extremists targeted #India's High Commissioner and Consul General of #India to #Toronto

    And let's not trivialize this incident and think this is somebody else's problem, not #Canada's, or #USA's, or #Japan's or the world's.

    It took one assassination by #GavriloPrincip (of #Serbia's #BlackHand) to assassinate Archduke #FranzFerdinand and precipitate #WWI.

    #failureOfImagination

    @driftingThoughts @loran_hayden