BLACK HAND IN KANSAS CITY. ~ Indiana Italian Ordered to Send $130,000 Here or His Daughter Will Be Kidnaped.

June 15, 1909
BLACK HAND IN KANSAS CITY.

Indiana Italian Ordered to Send
$130,000 Here or His Daugh-
ter Will Be Kidnaped.

EVANSVILLE, IND., June 14. -- Michael Fasciano, a prosperous fruit dealer, today received a mysterious letter demanding $130,000. The letter threatened the kidnaping of Fasciano's daughter unless the demand was complied with.

The letter was mailed at Mexico City on June 6 and directs that the money be sent to a man in Kansas City. Postal authorities and local detectives are at work on the case.