The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-26
FOR STEALING GIRL.
BANKER BOZZUFFT GOT LETTER
ABOI'T NEWARK MURDER.

says AvenginE Brothers Sailed on the
UItonia-Police stick TO Theory OF
Quarrel Among KldnapperS-NO All.
ductIon or Any RoSanna Is on Record.
There is a new puzzle in the case OF the
Italian whose body was found in the Morr1s
Canal. near Newark. nearly two weeks
ago. The police have a letter which John
Bozzufi, the Italian banker at Si1tieth
street and First avenue, whose boy, Antonio,
was kidnapped by three men and held a
prisoner for several days, received on March
II. He kept it to himself. and it was only
by chance that the police lea rned of il a day
or 50 ago.
The letter was unsigned and read:
We see that your son went 20 Newark and
Identified that body as one OF the men VINO
had captured him. We identified that man
long ago. He stole our sister hosanna.
1t was We that killed him. We are not
afraid now, for in a short time We will be
bound for Italy on the steamship lltonla.
We are never coming back. As soon as We
post this letter we are going aboard the ship
The Ultonia sailed on the afternoon of
March 20 for Naples and other Mediter-
ranean ports. The letter was posted that
afternoon and was placed in a ietterboI
near the Cunard Line pier. Banker Boz
cuff received IL the following morning.
The body, which was found with two
knife wounds in the neck and eight bullet
wounds, is still unidentified. Several per-
sons nave said that they knew the mar
hy sight, but none has been found who
know anything Of his life or his name or
where he lived.
Young Bozzufi was taken to Newark by
Central Office detectives, and after viewing
the body said it was that of one Of the three
men who kept him a prisoner in a tenement
house on East Fifty-ninth street. The
dead man. young Bozzutfi said, had acted
IA keeper Of the place where he was tsKen;
Detective Sergeant Petrosino, chief OF the
Italian Bureau at Police Headquarters,
thinks the letter is the work of some prac-
teal Joker or of some one who was anxious
TO throw searchers of the true scent. Pet
rosino is convinced that the dead man
was a member Of a gang OF
and cutthroats who have been operating
in this city for some time. lie IL OF the
opinion that the man vas slain as a result
of acme dissension in the gang.
Petrosino has taken many. Italians TO
Newark to try and identify the body, but
man. The police of the Italian Bureau
feel sure that the dead man is known by
MANY who were taken to view the body,
but that all were afraid to make the identi-
fcation thinking they would be arrested as
a result.
The authorities in Italy haven't been
asked to do anything about the alleged
passengers on board the Ultonia. A large
number Of Ita llans sailed on the ship and
il would be difficult to pick out any who
might have written the letter. There is no
record at Police Headquarters OF a kid
mapping case In which a girl named Ro-
sanna was concerned. In fact, Italian
kidna ppers always make a speciality OF
stealing boys. Among the ignorant class
Of Italians a boy is Thought to be much
more valuable than a girl, or at least it Is
the opinion that a father will give up more
10 get his boy back than he would for a
n there was a kidnapping In which a
girl named Rosanna figured the police
weren't asked TO take action In the case.
Sergt. Petrosino says there are a great
number Of cases Of wrongdoing among
the Italians which the people settle them
selves without soliciting the aid of the
police.~ This case. he says. may be one OF
those or it may be that the girl was sold
for immoral purposes and never returned
to her people.
However, Petrosino has in his possession
facts that convince him that the dead man
in Newark was killed by q gang OF Italian
crooks Of which he was a member.