The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-08-20
Circumstances Attending Return
Of Young Manniilo Strange
AS His Disappearance.
TELLS HIS STORY IN COURT.
His Uncle Field and He and.
Other Prisoners Bailed- Three
More Arrests Made.
lBxl IAssociated Press,.l y


stances surrounding the return of Ai1-s
tonic Nannino the nine-year- old Brooklyn
lad are almost as mysterious as was his
disappearance. According TO salvatore
Mannino, a relative, the boy was found /
alone on the street near his home after
midnight to-day but this the police do
not believe. ii tss
Weeping and then crying over the
yonngster his parents declared they were
wholly satisfied with the outcome Of the
mysterious affair, and did not cafe to
have the case pushed any further. Not
iwtthstanding their de claratlons, theylwere
compelled to 60 wit the boy to the police;
station. Salvatore Mannino was taken
charge OF abduotion. 81 i4tt$ Sas5s. 81
AT the police station young Ainnniro
Identified Angelo Cucozza, the boy who
was first arrested in the case, as the one
who took him to Manhattan after giving
him money. Cucozza, when he heard the
lad accuse him, sprang for the child and n
was seized by policemen and re turned to
his cell. while young Mannino was all
lowed to 90 with his parents.
Young Mannino4 was ia ken i to the police
court later In the day. where the other
prisoners were arraigned, but The sl lad
failed to identify any OF the others 55s5
Salvatore Mannin o was arrai ed on the
charge OF 4 kidnap piping; Il and was held h in
$1,000 bail. Ball In the cases OF the 9th
.e-s. who have now been under arrest sew
5eral days was placed at; s, goo.
Story Of the Lad. s
i Young Mannino was sub ecte ed to a sharp
examination by an assistant district a t
torney. He said:
..Cucozza took n away. We crossed
70 r,
we walked TEN blocks and then took al
street car and rode a, long distance. Then.
we got off and they took me to a big.
white building and went up = airs to the
TOP floor. Here Cucozza left US. q a short
stout woman opened the door. here were
two men there. the "a t man who mets7ls
and d thin man. y slept In 4 q bed with
the fat man. $S There was a three-ye
old child there they called julie. played
with him. ] looked out of the windows
and all of the houses looked white. ~ hen
the bird man went out he =, come
I ba ck and they would all go into a room
and talk IA 3 could not tell what they were
ga ying. The fat ma n. " no g. never wen r T
out, hut stayed It'll me all the time,
was very ark. He wore black clothlhE,
al black suit, black tie and la black SOFT
hat /. The woma n of ten went to market,
but although q asked III To- let me- she
would 8not3let me 90 with her.H5 Shes salu
that the market was too far away. -
was forty blocks "a way. Every day tfc
woman q bought IAN italian paper ana
brought 1 & In to the men and read lit
them Once they wen t I'M to another room.
and i could not hear VIVA e they were say;
Ing JsastEnight they put me to bed vi H.
out any supper and later the man came '
I to me and said that he was going TO take
me back to my mamma. = got up and
dressed and walked with the man bout
three blocks. Il I saw 1o6 on the sta ton.
and we rode a long time until heard the
man on the platform say South Ferry
Then i knew where II vi s.s8 The fat man
gave. me my fare. and crossed the South
Ferry alone. walked toward my home.
and at Columbia and q nifty Streets IS met
my uncle. n. Gsas s3s 4,
fss5as When the boys tatement was finished
Mr.. M amino his father, who had 3 been J. ~
listening intently. TODD up and said:
II have been representa- SB as Workln rs
against tho police In this natter It was " L
said that u gave no assist stance, y want want
to make an example of these men. am am
going 70 aid the police In every way !, 5 Z
can. and I'LL prosecute these men to the
limit 2a Y