"BLACK HAND" IN ROSEDALE. ~ Christopher Egers Gets Skull and Cross Bones Messages.

August 11, 1908
"BLACK HAND" IN ROSEDALE.

Christopher Egers Gets Skull and
Cross Bones Messages.

There is an active "Black Hand" organization in Rosedale, according to Christopher Egers, a druggist of the west end of Kansas City avenue, Rosedale. He complained to County Attorney Joseph Taggart yesterday that warnings had been pinned on his door.

He said that on several occasions he had found notices left on his premises during the night, previous, threatening his life and supplemented by a fairly well drawn skull and crossbones.

"I have no enemies in town that I know of," said Egers . "I do not suspect anyone and the only reason I can guess why anyone should want to frighten me is to obtain money."