The evening world., 1904-08-17
Clumsy Work Prevents Effective
Action Toward UnraveIIing
the Queer Puzzle OF Antonio
Mannlno's Disappearance.
lAW-ABlDlNG ITALIANS
AROUSED AT LAST.
Disguised by the Recent Crimes
Attributed to Their Country
men They Favor the Forma.
ton Of a Vigilance Committee.

Another series Of hopeless running
down Of blind trails confronts the 20.
iicsmen at work on the case OF the kid.
mapping Of Antonio Mannlno. with the
names known OF the two men who
have the boy. with full knowledge OF
their haunts and habits. the police arc
unable to get any information about
them.
1t does not appear that the photo.
graph Of Vito Laduca, who Ia said to
have the boy. has been made on cards
or circulars and sent to all the police
: oficers Of the country. nor does It ap.
pear that q similar action has been u.
ken with the picture Of the boy. In
fact. Il does not appear that the police
Of this city have really TAX On q great
deal Of Interest In the case. although II
cannot be denied that Capt Rooney, Of
the Amity street station, Brooklyn. and
his precinct detectives have been work
Ing very hard
Lack of Strategy shown
. Instead OF meeting the crafty ktd-
nappers with inesse and strategy the
police have been working a. though
they were after a lot OF door-knob rob
bers. Everybody under suspicion has
been Immediately placed under arrest
In consequence there are I'VE persons
IN custody and Of the five only one viii
talk. He u the cuoorzA youth whole
stole the boy.
Detectives Watching the homo OF one
Of the alleged consplrators, Galiu, saw
an Italian boy sneak out Of the house
carrying q suit case. Instead Of FOL
lowing the boy and locating the person
TO whom he was taking the case they
jumped upon him. took the evidence
away and famed him out Of the neigh
borhood.
Good Trail Il Lost.
Then thsy hurried 70 the station
house and examined the suitcase. It
wa full Of clothes. No one has called
for n. the boy has dropped out Of night
and q promising trail has been lost
Tor some time the police have known
that thas was . so-bstween passing
back and forth between the men IN
hiding with the boy and their frtsnds
m Brooklyn. Suspicion that this SO
between visited the wife Of the sus-
psotsd LAduea led to the establishment
Of q close watch upon her house.
Last night while Detective was wstch-
ing thsre came to the house, meskins
IN Q suspicious way, Salvatore Alta
Donna. Mrs. Laduca's cousin. He DIS
sppeared at about tho dine LAduca
dropped out OF sight after the tsdnap-
pine Of little Mannino.
"Hers," said Carrao, TO- his pertnsr
NAaih, 'fs the go-bstween.'
Choked on the Go-Between.
Instead of waiting for the alleged 20
BETWEEN 10 90 Into the house, talk 10
Mrs. LAduca and then, perhaps, lead
them unwtttingly, to the pine where
the boy Is held, the two detectives
ieaped upon him. beat him on the head
and dragged him 30 the station house.
There he was kept awake all MINT BY
detectives and policemen who tired 70
ret him to tsll where Tony Mannino b
k61nWW All he would say. a You
can ut nothing out Of me"
He was arraisned In. Butler Street
Police Court to-day and held IN t2,0oo
ball for examtnstio on Friday, Magfs-
trats T1ghe ordered that he DO taken
back 10 the Amdty street station, where
elaborate preparations had been made
70 force him TO confess.
az Altadonna will only talk" says
Capt, Rooney, II think we can set the
boy" .
In Terror Of the Black Hand.
The police place no more confidence
IN the father Of the kidnapped child.
They say that whenever Mannino gets
q promising clue he runs Il down by
himself and spells It. When this talk
OF the police u told TO MAnnino no de-
Yates his eyebrows and shrugs his
shouidere Mannino b afraid Of the