The Archive · 1929

Brooklyn, Dee. 9

Three children in the family of Joseph Falzone, an_ Italian contractor, were killed late yesterday in an explosion caused in tragic fashion.

As the children were preparing to attend mass, they spied a package on the kitchen table.

Believing that "Santa Claus has been here," they opened the package It proved to be a bomb, which ploded and riddled their' bodies and the walls of the kitchen with iron slug The father was away on a hunting trip, He had recently received threats from the "Black Hand," Italian terrorist organization—United Press.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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