An American Mafia's Letter

Xkw York, Marcb Ï5- The office boy of Editor Michi lungcli, of The Eco d'Italia, recaí ved a shock yesterday moruin vrben he opened a letter directed to the editor aDd behel 1 at the bottom of the sheet a (rrinnin;; skull and cross-bones, surmounted by the word "Mafia" in large letters. This letter was written on paper bearing the stamp and cut of the Hygeia hotel at üld Point Comfort, and ran as follows: "You had better keep your d - d mouth shut. The only cause for indignatiou is that the populace permitted a single one of your degraded uation to live and contamínate God's earth. Of all the miserable, conté mptible, thieving peoples, the Italian race are the very worst, -and the sooner they are exterminated the better for the world. You especially so. It will take very little for the American people to rise in their wrath and wreak necessary justice. A Defl to Kin; Humbert. "No lady can travel in Italy, even accompanied by father or husband, especially in the cities oí Turia and Rome, without the villainous natives leering at and insultin her. You arB a natioa of born murdeiY-rs and are below all others in humanity. Let Italy send ou her irouclads. She will never want to try it the second time; and where would your coinpatriots be in the meantime? Bah, on yel Keep quiet, or New Orleans will be a picnic to what will occur. Mafia." 1L the writer of the letter expected to frighten Kditor Miclielangeli his scheme has fallen flat. Just why it was signed "Mafia" is a questiou, but by the presence of the skull and bones the writer probably meaos that his motto is "death to the Mafia." The letter is published in The Eco d 'Italia in botn English and I talian.