New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-30
KIDNAPPED, SAYS GIRL.
Famay Feared to Tell Police
Cadets Lure Italians.

A week ago yesterday a young Italian girl
Louisa Diviniero fifteen years old, disappeared
from her home, No. 416 East One-hundred-and-
ffteenth-st. She returned last night. Although
six days had elapsed since her disappearance. II
was only yesterday that the fact became public
and even then the police were not asked for
ai5.
The family were afraid to tell the police, they
say, because another young girl who disap-
peared and returned several days later had
note pinned to her dress in which the threat
was made that if the police were told of what
had happened to her the whole family would be
wiped out.
Louisa Divinero says that at 1 o'clock on the
day she was missed from her home she went out
an errand for her sister, Mrs. Tozonio.- AT
e-hundred-and -fourteenth-st. and Third-ave.
she met a girl who lives in East One-hundred-
and-seventh-st They had worked together in
button factory in Nfnety-ffth-st.. between First
and Second aves. This girl was with two
young men. They suggested that she take a
walk with them. and she accompanied them
They boarded a southbound Third-ave. car. the
girl says and rode downtown to street where
they transferred to a crosstown car. Then
they took a ferry to Jersey City, where they
boarded train, proceeding to Trenton, n. J.
In that city they went to a house in Butler-st
The girl alleges that she was kept in the house
until Thursday night, and was assaulted by one
Of the
At about O'Clock on Thursday night the
party went TO Philadelphia, taking rooms about
twenty blocks from the Broad-st. station. so far
as the girl can recoIlect. She says that the two
men and the other girl went out, locking her in
her room. When they returned they were in
toxicated.
Yesterday. as soon as it was daylight, the girl
- -, ac1aa -sre
men and stole from the house, finding her way TO
the station. She pawned a ring and obtained
sufficient money for her fare home.
She said she knew of girl named Rosie
Forte, who lived somewhere in First-ave, who
has been missing for six weeks. Another girl
Antoinette Nuzza, disappeared about six weeks
ago and returned some days later, saying she
had been lured to house in Mott-st.. where
there were several other young girls. The house
was raided by the police more than once ana
each time the girls were hidden in various secret
places in the house until the police had gone
lured to this house. 1t was she who had the
note of warning pinned to her dress.
The DivinieTo girls experiences related last
night were not the first she has had. On the
THURSDAY before her last disappearance she
went out and did not return until the next Day
when she told story of being seized by Two
men. who placed her in a carriage and drove
her to house in the suburbs, where they Kept
hey all night. She returned the next day IN an
hysterical condition, and was attended by
musician her sister says. When the men let
her go, the girl says, they told her they would
return for her when they wanted her.
The neighborhood IN which the family live is
full Of Italian fortune tellers. It was to one
of these Mrs Todonio said, that the parents Of
one of the girls who was kidnapped and taken
to the hottest house gent when their daughter
was missing. The fortune teller told them their
daughter would be brought back on payment of
SO. The money was paid and the CIR! re-
turned.
There are other stories told Of missing girls
and the Intervention of fortune tellers, who,
after extracting sums ranginf from $40 to 500,
would procure the return Of the missing ones.