The Cairo bulletin., 1904-08-15
.SLEUTHS PROBING
BLACK HAND GANG
Arrive Too Late to Catch Chief
Conspirator at Home.
ARE HOT UPON TRAIL
HAVE SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE 70
RAILROAD THE ENTIRE GANG
WHEN THEY ARE
CAPTURED.

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| New York, Aug. 14.--Italian defac.
tiVes tonight struck the trail of vito
Laducca, who III believed ID have III
his custody the Kidnapped boy. Tonv
Mannino who was stolen from hIs
parents Tuesday night last.
A swarm OF Central office men have
taken up the scent and II rs believed
that before many hours Laducca and
| the boy will have been taken. NOT
more than an hour after Ladncca had
departed the two Italian detectives
broke into his home at No. $50 Hud-
son avenue, Brooklyn Ladueca had
fled, leaving behind him a revolver
and several letters which. It Is said.
further implicate him IN the kidnan-
ping plot.
His wife denied that he had been
there all day butt here Is evidence
TO prove that the man who was one of
he foremost leaders of the gang that
figured in the famons barrel uystery.
OF year ago. had been home only an
hour before.
The alarm was at once given and
the detectives followed al closely al
possible on the fngitiye's trail So far
en2s can be learned the stolen child
has not been In the Hudson street
healse, but Ladilcca Is believed Ia
have left him In the place where the
gang have the child concealed and
ventnred TO pay a visit to his home.
II the detectives strike his trail
they are confident that 1t will lead di.
rectly to the place where the little
boy Is concealed.
Ladncca is a deserter from the Ital.
ian navy, picture of him In the serv.
ice uniform having been found today
among the property which the ietec-
tiyes captured when they forced open
lis house.
Not long ago Laducca was employed
by Mannino, the father OF the missing
lad, and II was partly through funds
contributed by Mr.. Mannino that La.
ducca was enabled TO escape the
charge of murder preferred against
him in tho barrel mystery. There
Is a warrant out for Ladueca, who liz
one OF the men whom Magistrate
Tlghe instructed Detective yachris 10
bring in dead or alive
The discovery OF the trail of the
man who Is believed to be at the head
OF the gang that carried on the Man.
nino boy came at the end of a day
that had been absolutely fruitless OF
results to the police.
Baffled at every turn by the craft
of the kidnappers. Captain Rooney
declared wearily that he did not
know whether the child was alive or
dead, or that he would be any more
surprised TO see the lad walk In un-
attended than he would be TO learn
Of his dead body being found where
il had been thrown by the gang after
having wreaked its vengeance.
What looked like a promising clew
was a partial Identification OF young
Mannino, as child who had been
seen on Thursday afternoon in Chlca.
go with two Italians on the platform
a, the one Hundred and Fifty-hnh
Street station. on the Ninth Avenue
L.
They boarded train on the Put.
nam branch OF the New York Central
road, and in consequence a thorough
search was made today of all the low.
er section Of Westchester county. but
without results.
Hoboken. Jersey City. Patterson.
Newark and the more distant cities
are also being thoroughly searched.
and in the meantime the closest
kind OF a watch is being kept upon
the haunts Of the barrel murder gang
In this city.
All the members of this gang have
disappeared from the city complete
y and. TO add to the perplexity of the
police, Mr.. Mannino today changed
d attitude toward the officials. il is
through fear Of the gang,
md there we're strong rumors which
we're borne out In part by an inter
lew with Giuseppe Cigretio. Manni-
ms partner. that the tao men we're
n private communication with the
Sidnappers and hoped 20 secure the
oy's release without any assistance
rom the police.
Cigretto declared that they knew
ghere the boy was. and announced
hat be would be restored % his pa
enis by O'Clock.
Six O'Clock came and went. howev-
2. and The boy did rot return, wha--