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.