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It was the Sicilians who were to blame, they said in the letter: 'The Sicilian is a blood-thirsty man. He belongs to the Black Hand. He exercises blackmail, is a dynamiter and, by blood, a coward… We must suppress the immigration from Sicily. ’ But most New York policemen, being Irish, could not tell the difference between a Sicilian and an Italian. Petrosino's Italian Squad enjoyed some successes. During the roundup, it arrested Enrico ‘Erricone’ Alfano, 'Generalissimo of the Camorra', who was deported back to Italy to stand trial.

Although the Red Shirts were vastly outnumbered by the Bourbon army, the men of Sicily rallied to Garibaldi – not because they wanted a united Italy, but because they wanted to get rid of the Bourbons. With Garibaldi’s aid, Sicily was liberated. Garibaldi and his Red Shirts then crossed the Strait of Messina and went on to unite Italy under King Victor Emmanuel of Savoy. But the people of Sicily soon discovered that they had merely swapped one external ruler for another. Nothing else had changed.

But after 1903 the New York Herald and the Italian-language Bollettino della Sera began to use 'Black Hand' as a catch-all term for Italian criminal gangs. Respectable Italian-Americans preferred it that way. For some time, they had petitioned the newspapers not to bandy the name ‘Mafia’ around because it applied only to a small band of Sicilian thugs. From then on, letters demanding money were regularly adorned with a crudely drawn Black Hand symbol. On 24 May 1911, Tano Sferrazzo of 307 East 45th Street in New York City received a letter that read: 'Various men of my society as you know well will demand some money because we need it in our urgent business and you finally have never consented to satisfy us to fulfil your duty… Money or death.

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