Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-03-08
The Kidnapped Boy.

As was stated in the Gazette, Antonio
Bozzufi, the 14-year.old boy who was
kidnapped in New York last Sunday
and held for $40, ransom, returned
alone to his home yesterday. He had
escaped from bis captOrs, he said, by
stealing out of room above a saloon III
Fifty-ninth street yesterday while one OF
his captora, who had been left alone to
guard him, turned his back for mo-
ment. The boy says il took him but
second TO spring beyond the mans
reach and get down stairs TO the street,
where no sitcmrt was made to pursue
him.
He told how he was terrOrlzed into
writing letter to his father, John Boz
zuffi. an East Side banker, informing
him that $40, 900 must be paid, and that
if the police were informed his life would
be taken. He was induced to enter the
saloon by two Italians, who told him
they wished him TO do some Interpreting
in English, which they did not speak.
Taken to the upstairs room, be says he
wss al first bound and a handkerchief
was forced into his mouth. Three men
wearing black masks then entered the
room. One Of them, the boy said
pressed a revolver against his head and
commanded him to write letter TO
his father. After this episode, accord
ing to the boys story, he was treated
kindly.
.John Bozzufi, the boys father, said
that the kidnapping was part OF p!ot 10
ruin him by causing run on his oank'
A run started on the day after the KID
mapping, and up to IL O'Clock yester-
day 81, 900 had been drawn out OF the
bank.
Two Sicilians were arrested yesterday
in connection with the kidnapping OF
Bozzufi. Detectives found the suspects
at Sixly-third street and First avenue
and took them to police headquarters,
where thew named themselves as Josep
DO Constance, 80 years old, OF 800 east
Sixty-third street. and Antonio Gismo,
3S wears old, OF 407 east Antonio street.
Samuel Hickman, the landlord OF the
hou,e where Antonio was held captive,
Unidentified GiamO as the man who ae-
companitd the Italian when he went TO
rent the rooms where Antonio was aiter-
ward. confined. Constance was arrest
ed simply because he was in Glamo's
company.
The Kidnapped boy could not be sure
of the identity OF each Of them, but is IN
almost TOO nervous condition to be
certain Of anything. He said, however,
that they might be two of the men who
captured him, but il was hard tor him
to tell, as his csptOrs had w,rn masks
almost constantly while they had him in
their charge.
Alter the two suspects had been eG-
amined down stairs in police head
quarters they we're taken up stairs to be
photograph. When it came Giamo's
turn to take his place in the photo
grapher's chair, be acted like mad
man. Above his chair, which is screwed
TO the floor, is a great electric arc light
by which the photograph is taken.
When they put Gismo in the chair and
turned on the electricity he evidently
thought that he was to be put to death
or tortured, for he jumped up from the
chair and fell writhing to the floor,
CRYING, "Don't kill me- Save me save
me p' It was sometime before the de-
tectives could quiet him to lead him
away. The men were afterwards ar
raigned in court and held in 81 900 bail
for examination on Friday.