They saw Rizzi come down with his tray
and pass out of sight. So did a couple of Italian detectives
from Headquarters who had been following him and now, at his
very heels, watched him enter another tenement, take a bomb
from his tray, and ignite a time fuse. They caught him with
the thing alight in his hand. Meanwhile the other bomb had
gone off and blown up the milkman's tenement.
There is some ancient history in regard to these matters which
ought to be retold in the light of modern knowledge; for
example, the case of Patti, the Sicilian banker. He had a
prosperous institution in which were deposited the earnings of
many Italians, poor and wealthy. Lupo's gang got after him
and demanded a large sum for "protection." But Patti had a
disinclination to give up, and refused. At the time his
refusal was attributed to high civic ideals, and he was lauded
as a hero. Anyhow, he defied the Mafia, laid in a stock of
revolvers and rifles, and rallied his friends around him.
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