The Washington times., 1906-03-07
YOUNG BOzzUFFI
ELUDES KIDNAPERS
Italian Bankers Son Re-
turns to His Home.
WAS HELD FOR RAN ON
Escape of Fourteen Year-Old Lad as
Mysterious as His DisaP-
pearsnce.
WAS HELD FOR RAMS ON

NEW AOkk, March Antonio Bog
zufft, the fourteen-year-oid son OF John
BozzufTl. 2 private banker. with banb
and residence at First avenue and Sixty
third street. who has been missing since
Sunday afternoon, and was declared by
his parents to be have been kidnapped,
returned home this morning. \ tele-
phone message received at police head
quarters shortly after 9 O'Clock said:
NY boy who was kidnapped returned
home this morning He escaped from
the kidnapers-'
The person sending the message said
that he was the father of the boy, De
tectives were at once sent TO the Boz
zufn residence to interview the lad.
The boy disappeared Sunday after
noon, and on Monday the father Teeeiv-
ed a letter from the son imploring him
to pay his abductors $4,000. He said
the bandits demanded this amount for
his release. Another and stronger plea
came OF Tuesday. on which the boy
wrote that # the money was not forth
coming soon his abductors would put
him to death.
The police were notified of the alb
duction. but their search for traces OF
boy were without result
Tells His Story.
The boz arrived home at $40 thus
morning and was greatly depressed ID
spirits. He said.
''On Sunday afternoon Just after / LETT
Dnmer's drug store. on First avenue
near Sixty-third street. q young man
walked up TO me and apparently knew
me. He said: Hello. Tony WIN you
do me a favor? We have some letters
from the old country at my house and
we want YOU to translate them.
II said all right. Then we walked
down Second avenue 10 Fifty-ninth
street. and there the man took me uD
or the second floor of d house IN the
middle of the block on the south s,
of the street. The house has saloon
on the ground floor.
when I went into the room on the
second floor. there were three masked
men there.
THE man who brought me to the
nlace slammed the door behind me and
then locked it, he took a pistol from
his pocket and pointing it at me said;
Tony. il you don holieT and do
what we tell. we will do You no l,.,a harm; m
But if you veil and don do what We
tell YOU. We viii kill you
Told to Write Letter.
..-Then they told me to write a letter to
nv father. They stood by me with a brand
new axe and a revolver. They worded
the letter for me and told me just what
to write. / got the first few lines writ
ten and then ] broke down. 1 could
not write any more
"Au for OF the men then began to
swear at me and one of them placed the
revolver to my head.
He said. If you don't go on and
write I'll kill you.
Might and day they kept a guard
over me. There always were two men
on watch They gave me enough food
to eat and did not treat me harshly
except when they wanted me 10 write
letters to my father.
"One Of the men was a big fellow
with a heavy black mustache and thick
black hair The other men / could not
tell so much about. All the talking
was done by the young fellow who
brought me TO the place.
Made His Escape.
This morning one of the men went
out and the other turned his back for
a moment ] saw he was not watching
me and slipped into the next room
When / saw that he had not noticed