The sun., 1903-11-20
ROESCH GETS"A.B.C. LETTER
AND THE PRIESTS FRIEND HAS
A SLELTH ESCORT HIM HOME.
IT'S Written In Italian and Threatens
Father CirI IinsIOne II lie Talks Any
MOre-Justice Hears Of a Boy VINO
Saw the Priest and Wagon Near by.


MOre-Justice Hears Of a Boy VINO
Saw the Priest and Wagon Near by.
Civil Justice Roesch, the friend of Father
Cirringione, the Italian priest who says
he was kidnapped received letter through
the mail last night telling him to warn the
priest not TO do any more talking about
the case or he would be killed.
The letter was signed "A. B. c." but,
unlike the other letters that have been sent
to persons whose names have been men
toned in the newspapers in connection
with the case since the priest disappeared,
this letter was written in Italian.
The letter was mailed at Station X, in
East Fifty-sixth street, at / o'clock yester-
day afternoon. Translated, it read as fol-
lows:
NEW YORK. Nov. 03
SIR: Tell to Father Giuseppe that he shall
not speak any more for his life shall answer
A. Is. c.
have saved his life Now | am against
him. A. b. C.
The letter was addressed to Justice
Roesch at his house. 1t was written in
scrawly hand, on cheap, ruled paper, some-
what similar % that on which the letters
received by the priest were written. The
handwriting also seemed TO have some
similaTities.
The words "Nov., 'O3," were not written
in ink, but were pricked in. evidently by
pin and so was non, the Italian word for
mot in the body of the letter. Some pin
marks were noticed in the letters to the
priest.
Justice Roesch was at dinner of go
ciety at Mo,quins last night when the
letter was delivered at his home. His
wife, who is i'll, was 80 worried when she
saw the signature that she sent II down
to him at the dinner.
Justice Roesch had just finished his
speech at the dinner. He knows a little
Italian and at first translated the letter as
being a threat against himself, which so
worried him that, at the suggestion OF his
friends, he called up Police Headquarters
and asked for detective to escort him
home.
Detective Duggan was sent down and
Justice Roesrh went home under his pro-
,ect ion His wife had become thoroughly
alarmed, too. When an Italian translated
the letter for him at his house the Justice
turned the letter over to the police;
Justice Roesch, who has all along be-
lieved that the priest was kidnapped, said
last night that he had no doubt that the
letter was from the kidnappers, who had
seen the priests story in the papers From
from one of The men who had interfered
to save his life when, according to the
priests story, the leader of the kidnappers
wanted to kill him.
received by persons mentioned in the case
in addition to the two letters received by
Father Cirringione before he disappeared.
The police. who have been rather sceVical
regarding the kidnapping story, have
looked upon these letters, 40 far, as coming
fran l.g Ian NAN
such case gets in the newspapers.
Justice Roesch, who is trying to cor
roborate the priest story In the int rests
of his friend, said last night that he had
lives in Willamsbridge, that an Italian
boy named Popolizio had told his son hat
he had seen he priest I he night he disap-
peared, walking with two men, and had
said Good evening, Fat her. to him, and
had later seen a bakers wagon with two
horses st Standing in front OF Mr.. Lambs
house in Fourth avenue.
The priest asked he police on Monday
TO find the boy who spoke to him to cor
roborate his story The police found the
PopoiZio boy the next day. They said,
however, that he had denied to them that
he had seen the priest or the wagon.
According to Judge Roesch, the Popo-
lzio boy told the Holahan boy that the
police had tried to make him deny the story.
but that II was true Judge Rossch said that
himself in order TO clear the priest of the
suspicion the police were trying to cast upon
his story
The police of The Bronx, who are in
yestigating the. kidnapping story told by
Father Cirringione, are looking for an
Italian who disappeared from Williams
bridge shortly before Father Cirringione
began to receive threatening letters through
the mails. The Italian was IN the employ
Of baker named Riggio in Williamsbridge,
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threats and demanding money from him,
one sum named being $1,000. Riggio told
the police of these letters and then the
man disappeared.
- Thomas Baletto, an Italian banker Of
New Rochelle, told the police that he had
Rochelle. and that the man had run away
on seeing him. The police think that
possibly this man, who, they say, has a bad
record, may throw light on Father Cirrin-
gone's case. So far the detectives who
are working under Inspector Titus have
story and were just as far from it yesterday
as they were on the day they took the case
One of the gangs of blackmailers that
the police have been looking up had their
Headquarters once near Father Cirring
ione's church on First street, in a junk
shop kept by an Italian named Fillipo.
In April last, Filipo, with Felix and James
Doria and an Irishman named Martin
Lowney held up Louis Burzon. cattle
dealer of l47 South Railroad avenue, Mount
Vernon, in a lonely place and, placing re-
volvers at his head. robbed him of $3.50.
They were convicted and are now serving
sentences of seven years in Sing Sing.
According to the police the other mem
bers of this gang left Wilamsbridge and are
now living in Fordham. Some of them,
the police say, have been seen recently in
Willamsbridge.
At the time that Max Joseph, Brooklyn
lawyer, disappeared, this gang was s,is-
pected, but the police failed to connect them
with the case. Joseph went to Mount
Vernon in answer to an Italian letter max
ing an appointment. He disappeared
while there and no trace of him has ever
been found.