They are merely instructed to deliver a letter or to blow up a tenement.

The same name is used by the Black Hander to-day for his "assistant" or "apprentice" who actually commits a crime as that by which he was known under the Bourbons in 1820.

In those early days the second-grade member of the Camorra was known as a picciotto.

To-day the apprentice or "helper" of the Black Hander is termed a picciott' in the clipped dialect of the South.

But the picciotto of New York is never raised to the grade of Camorrista, since the organization of the Camorra has never been transferred to this country.