On a fall afternoon in 1921, Clark Owens Truby opens a letter that demands he place $100 next to his dad’s backyard chicken coop, or he will be killed. The letter is signed “Black Hand”

Simon Truby's Historic Farmhouse & the Families Who Lived There
On a fall afternoon in 1921, Clark Owens Truby opens a letter that demands he place $100 next to his dad’s backyard chicken coop, or he will be killed. The letter is signed “Black Hand”
Bachelor Capt Henry Truby of Gilpin Twp was a man of few words when writing his diary back in 1844. Here’s what the Captain was up to exactly 176 years ago, in the days leading up to Valentine’s day.