The evening world., 1903-11-14
DELIVERY.

The last paragraph was heavily written and UNDERLINED IT,. ,....-
came by special delivery AMI arrived Monday moraing.
Father cirringiono communicated with Capt. Foody and informed his
friends of the threats that had been made against him. He became some
what worried over t., matter, and o n Thursday visited bs fatber AZ N n
BOO West Seventeenth street.
They discussed the affair until late that night and the nr,e.t r.m.,,sd
It his fathers house until Friday morning. At room yesterday he went
back to his home in Wniamsbridge.
He remained in the house during the afternoon, and "a visited by
the Rev. Father Anthony a missionary, and several other friends. After
dinner they began : game of cards.
Those in the house at the time were the Rev. Fathers Marchaesi Dr.
IN n An'nohs' rocco N sexton OF n church; his wife, who is
- niece of Father cirringione, and their little daughter also lived in the
mouse. The three priests were playing cards in the rar room o the
srouho hoof nc rather ofringfohe val walking p and down the hall
Parma was sitting in a doorway across the hall from the rear Dol watch
ing the card game and smoking.
Father Anthony and the others waited for him ome time and then
Visited the police station. They learned that n o message had been sent by
Capt. Foody and that no detectives had been sent to see the priest.
No trace of him WI found during the night. and Father Anthony
accompanied by Rocco Parma. the sexton of the Church of the immaculate
Seventeenth street and informed him of the disappearance O: his son.
A peculiar incident connected with the disappearance of the priest,
and one which has made a deep impression upon the Italians of the parish,
was related to-day by Parma, the sexton.
Father Anthony and Parma ran down to the chapel, which is about two
blocks from the house. to see If he was there The new church is not
q chapel. The key is kept in a barber shop next door, ST that all who wish
TO pray during the day may find it there and enter.
When Father Anthony and Parma arrived at the chapel the door was
locked and the key was gone from the barber shop. The barber knew
nothing of its disappearance. 1t shortly after II o'clock, and Father
Anthony and Parma looked in through the window of the chapel. They
could see, no sign of the priest they sought, but both noticed with con-
sternaton that the sanctuary light which always burns at the altar in a
Catholic chuch ws out.
This light Is supposed to burn night and day. and for it to go tut is
believed by the supersdtious to be a great sign of i'll omen.
OVERCOME BY GRIEF.
Neither the elder Crringione nor his daughters speak English an ,
Mrs. Maud Allen. who is stopping with them. acted IS interpreter.
The father and sister were overcome by grief They believe the priests
dead body will be found somewhere in the Bronx today
A detective at work IN the case took two of the letterst hat b.d hoo,
sent to Father Crringlone to Post-ofce station No 153. in West One Hun
bred and Twenty-ffth street. The clerk in charge, l. A Jasnow exarinoa
the letters and told him hat me had been posted at, Station s, Howard
street and Broadway. and the other at Station H. Lexington avenue and
Forty-ourth street.
Both letters were in the same handwriting and in the opinion n, tho
postal clerk were written by a foreigner. They were the last two letters
Tecei~ed by the messing priest.
The detective al advised to see the Post-omce inspector md said he
would do so.
In the general alarm sem ont by the police Father Cirringfone is de-
scribed as being thirty-three years of age, about s feet IL inches sin height
weighing ITO pounds, and with dark hair, eyes and complexion when
Las seer he wore clerical clothing. He walked with a slight stoop.