Ok so actually the L'oeil de la police cover is actually about the murder of Petrosino but the magazine also wrote about Alfano's trial between 1911-1912 (no illustrations, but I can share the articles and translate them though if you want).
It looks like the book doesn't include the original article that goes with the image, so here it is:
The secret society the "Black Hand" of which the number of victims no longer counts, has yet to exercise its terrible reprisals on a police officer in particularly dramatic circumstances. We know that the black hand is an organization organized on the model of the Neapolitan Camorra and the Sicilian Mafia. Its purpose is to extort large sums from Italians who made their fortune in the United States. If the designated vitcimtes refuse to give in to the demands of the association, we throw bombs on their house, they kidnap their children or they kill them themselves.
Usually his executions are preceded by a mysterious warning. The unfortunate people who must die on his order, one day find that a hand impregnated with black ink has been applied to the wall of their house. This sinister image is for them the fatal stop.
Now a detective, Italian by birth, but naturalized American, Mr. Petrosino had been sentenced to death by the Black Hand in secret court.
Mr. Petrosino had long served the United States. He had been tasked with tracking down members of the Black Hand, and he had organized a special brigade against them. Finally, faced with the multiplicity of crimes committed by the Society, he himself came to Naples, then to Palermo. It was in this last city that he was to be killed.
He was in fact crossing Marina Square when several individuals surrounded him and fired at him, in the midst of panicked passers-by, several revolver shots. Although fatally struck, the policeman took his revolver in turn and fired without hitting them. Taking advantage of the fear of the assistants, they flee.
A few arrests have been made but will we ever know if we have accomplices of the Black Hand? Members of the secret society generally know how to keep a secret.
In New York, however, an investigation was launched which led to the arrest of 11 individuals suspected of being part of the terrible association.
The attacks she committed in the United States on the Italians is incalculable. Affiliates squeeze those of their compatriots who disembark, take their money, force them to join their bands; if they refuse their death warrant is pronounced.
The American police say they are powerless to get rid of the country of this bandit company.
(L'oeil de la police Volume 12, 1909)
Ok so actually the L'oeil de la police cover is actually about the murder of Petrosino but the magazine also wrote about Alfano's trial between 1911-1912 (no illustrations, but I can share the articles and translate them though if you want).
It looks like the book doesn't include the original article that goes with the image, so here it is:
The secret society the "Black Hand" of which the number of victims no longer counts, has yet to exercise its terrible reprisals on a police officer in particularly dramatic circumstances. We know that the black hand is an organization organized on the model of the Neapolitan Camorra and the Sicilian Mafia. Its purpose is to extort large sums from Italians who made their fortune in the United States. If the designated vitcimtes refuse to give in to the demands of the association, we throw bombs on their house, they kidnap their children or they kill them themselves.
Usually his executions are preceded by a mysterious warning. The unfortunate people who must die on his order, one day find that a hand impregnated with black ink has been applied to the wall of their house. This sinister image is for them the fatal stop.
Now a detective, Italian by birth, but naturalized American, Mr. Petrosino had been sentenced to death by the Black Hand in secret court.
Mr. Petrosino had long served the United States. He had been tasked with tracking down members of the Black Hand, and he had organized a special brigade against them. Finally, faced with the multiplicity of crimes committed by the Society, he himself came to Naples, then to Palermo. It was in this last city that he was to be killed.
He was in fact crossing Marina Square when several individuals surrounded him and fired at him, in the midst of panicked passers-by, several revolver shots. Although fatally struck, the policeman took his revolver in turn and fired without hitting them. Taking advantage of the fear of the assistants, they flee.
A few arrests have been made but will we ever know if we have accomplices of the Black Hand? Members of the secret society generally know how to keep a secret.
In New York, however, an investigation was launched which led to the arrest of 11 individuals suspected of being part of the terrible association.
The attacks she committed in the United States on the Italians is incalculable. Affiliates squeeze those of their compatriots who disembark, take their money, force them to join their bands; if they refuse their death warrant is pronounced.
The American police say they are powerless to get rid of the country of this bandit company.
(L'oeil de la police Volume 12, 1909)
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