Flint is well known for its modern violent crimes but Flint's history is filled with little known stories that read stranger than fiction. Gruesome murders, weird accidents, and violent deaths. Join us every Thursday as Joe Schipani details some of the odd but true deaths he found in Flint's archives.
The
Black Hand Returns December
10th, 1923
In 1910 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Boneventire moved from Italy to Detroit.
Joseph worked hard and made a
good life for he and his family until around 1920 when he started getting
threats from the Black Hand. Meeting their demands was challenging and soon he got
to the point he could not meet them.
His wife’s brother offered to
help them move to Flint to escape the pressure of the Black Hand. The family managed to escape Detroit the
night before the Black Hand was to make good on their threat.
The Boneventires did well in
Flint.
Mrs. Boneventire was happy to be close
to her family.
On the night of December 10th,
1923 Mrs. Boneventire was in the kitchen making bread while her husband
entertained her brother’s family and the two boarders that lived with them.
Mrs. Boneventire was putting
bread in the oven when shots fired through the window behind her.
Eleven bullets went through her
body. The family rushed in and carried her to the bed. She died as they laid her
in the bed.
A patrolman heard the gunfire
from a couple blocks away and came running.
The police found the gun in an
alley a block away and a note by the back window that said “you can’t hide.”
No one was ever arrested for the
murder of Mrs. Boneventire.
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