The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-14
ANOTHER ITALIAN BOY STOLEN.
TIE USUAL LETTER DEMANDING
MONEY COMES BY MAZE.
Four-Year-Oid Boy stolen kidnapped on
His way Homo From kindergarten
ia Man Ran on with the Crying Lad
-Neighborhood Aroused. but No Clue.

III - VII Wv ~ ~ AN-@
-Neighborhood Aroused. but No Clue.
George Brucato, 4 years old, OF 80 STAN
ton street, is missing, and Georges father.
also George Brucato, received last evening
the usual letter which arrives when an
Italian small boy disappears. demanding
money. Al usual Brucato also told the
police that he has no enemies and suspects
no n He came to the police in fear
and trembling.
Little George lived with his father another
and six brothers and sisters on the top
floor OF a high tenement at 80 Stanton street.
For several months he has attended the
Epiphany Chapel kindergarten in the old
Pro-Cathedral at l2s Stanton street. George
is too small, even in Italian eyes, to make
the journey TO hoo alone, so he was in
trusted to Katie Alma, who is almost Q
and lives in the same Every
day at 0 O'Clock Katie led George TO the
school and at noon brought him back.
The two children started home yester-
day as usual. When they were a few doors
beyond the school two men, a tall one and
a short one, stopped them. The tall man
pressed a bright nickel into Georges hand
and said;
Come along, sonny. We're going to
buy you a great big doll and a lot Of candy"
The men started to lead George across
the street, put finding that Katie followed,
the short man stopped. gave her a cent and
told her to run home to her mother. Katie
hesitated, but the tall man swore at her
and told her to run along or she would
catch.a beating. Katie ran, and George
began to whimper and then TO cry loudly,
Katie turned. but before she could recross
-. as-zn, Gha - ~ Nha toll man Unfh0r tho
boy up in his arms again and run rapidly
in the direction of RivinRton street. The
short man waited a moment evidently TO
see if his friends action had been noticed,
and then ran after him.
Katie followed a little way, but she be-
came frightened as she turned into a strange
street and hurried back home to break the
news. 1t was a familiar alarm to the Ital-
ians and in a moment the street swarmed
with angry mothers led by Mrs. Brucato.
They ran to the school and stormed the
doors demanding George. Miss Perdue
and Miss Kingsland. the principal and the
teacher in the kindergarten, were just fin
ishing the days work. They only remem-
berpd seeing George starr home and could
give no help. Tn women. followed by a
crowd of small boys, swept the neighbor-
hood, but found no ono who had seen a tall
man carrying a crying boy.
When Georges father came home for
dinner he laughed at the story and said
that George had run away to some friends
house or had wandered away from Katie
and lost his way. He visited the homes
of all his friends and went to the Eldridge
street police station and Police Head
| quarters, but there was no lost boy answer
ing Georges description.
The letter came in the last evening mail.
IL was addressed TO Alphonso Avrucato,
80 Stanton street. but the ~neighbors say
that the name should have been Brucato.
They didn't explain how Brucato knew
that the wrongly addressed letter was for
him. II had teen mailed at 80 O'Clock
in Station A, at Green and Houston streets.
The letter, as interpreted by an Italian
who knew little English, read:
DEAR FRIEND: Your son is among us. Try
and raise 81. 900 from your best friends and
do not give this letter to the police. for If you
do. by the Madonna. your son will be killed
Your son is in good health and in good hands.
The letter differed from the usual Black
Hand epistle in that il was not decorated
with pictorial threats Of death. The letter
convinced the Bruoato family that katie's
story was true, and after much debate they
took Katie to the Eldridge street police
station and later TO Police Headquarters
to tell what she knew. The girls descrip-
ton of the men went no further than the
fact that one was short and the other tall.
The letter gave no directions as TO where
the money was TO be left, and Georges
father could give the police no hint as 20
who had taken the child.
late at night the Gates avenue police
station in Brooklyn reported that they had
lost two children a boy about five, who
gave the name Of Frank Bee; raj. and a
girl of eight, who said she was Annie Be-
cardi. The boy was dressed in a gray suit,
red cap and a red cape. The missing boy
wore a red sweater and red cap, and the
police, although they couldn't describe the
girl, and because of the similarity of names
told Georges parents 10 go TO the Brook
Ign Children's Society and see If the boy
Yves their son.