Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-11-16
ITALIAN PRIEST
HAS AN EXPERIENCE
Two Men, Representing Themselves
As Detectives, Lure Him from
Home Holding Him Prisoner.
ROBBED HIM OF HIS VALUABLES
Confined Him in Dismal Cellar From
Which He Was Finally Liberated
And Thrust Into the Street.

New York, Nov. I6.--The Rev Joseph
Cirringone, rector OF the Italian church
of the Immaculate Conception In VIII
Hams Bridge, a suburb OF this city, who
disappeared from his home under mys-
terlous circumstances last Friday night,
was found early today by policeman
In East Fifty-flrst street, raving wildly
IN Italian, and Is now in hospital.
Father Clrringione had incurred the
enmity of Italians about Williams
Bridge by a crusade against vice. He
received several threatening letters and
mad reported the matter to the police.
who were endeavorlng to locate the
writer's, Late Friday night two men
called upon him and representing
themselves as detectives asked him TO
accompany them to the station house.
lie did not return, and II was believed
ne mad been carried off by agents of
an italian secret society.
When found today Father Cirrlngione
tell exhausted into the arms of the
policeman, crying out repeatedly
They have robbed me and they will
hlu me. Protect me-
hurried examination OF the priests
physical condition was made by a
physician who found that his worst
wounds were two red marks similar to
those that would have been made had
the priests wrists been bound with a
rope.
Under the influence of soothing
drugs Father Cirringione became calm
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his story.
He said that he had been robbed By
the two men who had gone to his home
on Friday night and whom he had ac-
companied, believing them to be de-
tectives.
They took me to the ocean," he said
but beyond this the questioners could
get little In detail of where he had
been. lie said that when but few
steps from the door of his own house
the two men grasped him, one grabbing
him by the arms and pmioning them
behind him, while the other thrust over
his nostrils cloth of some kind sat
urated with a pungent liquid. Then
he says he lost consciousness and the
next thing he knew was when he found
himself In a dark and dismal cellar"
with his wrists bound.
iHe pIlest shlu lNht ne mad been
freed but few minutes before he had
been found by the policeman. He said
he had been led blindfolded and he had
been given push
Father cirringionc when he left his
house had gold mounted ebony cane,
valuable gold Catch and chain and
some money When found today all
were gone.
Friends and relatives OF Father Cir
ringlone believe the story of the priest,
but the police are awaiting further de-
velopments before taking any action for
the discovery of the alleged abductors.
10 civil Justice Roesch, an old friend
OF the priest, the latter said there were
four men In the gang which abducted
him. Only one was an Italian. one of
the other men was very rough to him
and insisted that he be killed. He said
that he heard the zen say on Saturday
that the papers We're filled with the
story of his abduction and this man
again insisted that he be killed. The
others objected and managed to get
this man intoxicated and the priests
life was saved.