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I remember hearing about the black hand when a movie came out by that name and author stephan talty has written a book about the organization that held my interest throughout

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Members would threaten both individual families and shopkeepers who were struggling to make a living in america and then forcing them to pay exorbitant amounts of money to return a child family member who had been kidnapped or to prevent their place of business from being bombed

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Unfortunately he didnt get the cooperation he desired

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Murder and extortion was the game of members of the socalled society and petrosino encouraged victims not to pay these extortionists because they would be back to victimize them once again

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I did find one error in the book

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On page 136 new york and chicago gangster johnny torrio is repeatedly referred to as johnny terrio

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The book contains eight pages of photographs

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It was embarrassing to read how italian police officer were treated by some of the irish members of the department