Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-06-27
FIND BEHEADED BOY
AFTER A TWO WEEKS SEARCH,
HEADLEss BODY is FOUND.
FIVE ITALIANS ARE UNDER ARREST
Confession Is Wrung from One of the
Suspects, After Which He Leads
Searchers to Hiding Place.

new orleans, La-"1WO miles
in the interior of a big swamp, near
this city, the headless body of Walter
Lamana, an Italian child between Z
and s years old, who was kidnapped
and held for $4,000 ransom two weeks
ago, was found by the police and vigi-
lantes. He had been strangled to
death, according to the confession of
one of several Italians held by the
police.
The boys neck is supposed to have
been broken when he was strangled,
causing the head to become separated
from the body when the d%ecomposi-
ton set in. The head was found a
short distance from the body.
Five Italians, two of them women,
are under arrest charged with being
accomplices to the murder, and extra
details of the police and deputies are
maintaining order in the excited Ital-
ian quarter of the city. All day Sun
day small crowds were dispersed
promptly by the police, despite whose
precautions a report got out summon
ing a mass meeting at Elk place. Sew
enty armed deputies have been placed
on guard ct the Orleans parish prison,
the strongest in the state, where three
of the prisoners are held, and some
apprehension has been felt over the
safety of two other prisoners who
were taken to an adjoining parish.
Reminder Of Malta Troubles.
Seldom since the Malta ~lynchings 16
years ago has New Orleans been SO
stirred with threats of violence, and
some of these threats are made by
those who participated in the disor-
ders at that time. The law and order
element is much stronger than it has
been heretofore, a large number of
leading citizens having pledged them
selves to prevent violence.
The murdered boy was found near
st. Rose, about 20 miles from New
Orleans. A sweating process wrung
a confession from one of the Italian
suspects, who was taken from his
home in ST. Rose about midnight Sat
urday night and carried into the
woods by a combined force of officers
and vigilantes who had the search in
charge. This man, Ignazio Campig-
nacio. was kept in the woods an hour,
when he confessed, charging four
Italians with the murder. He said that
about the time of a mass meeting in
New Orleans more than a week ago,
held for the purpose of prosecuting the
search for the body, these men, who
became frightened and consulted about
what to do with the child. The boy
was crying begging to be taken home
to his parents, said Campignacio, and
one of the quartette of k~idnapers
grabbed the child and strangled him
to death to stop his noise. Later two
of the kidnapers, he said, came to him,
carrying the body in a blanket and,
after threatening him with death if he
tod, took the body into a swamp.
Leads Police Into Swamp.
Campignacio, after relating the
story, led the police into two miles Of
swamp, where the searchers some
times waded in water nearly waist
deep and at others crawled under
tangles of briers. In a shallow pool
at the end of this search the body
was found in a blanket in a clump
of cane Returning to the city, the
police arrested Nicolina Gebbia, an
Italian woman, who is alleged to have
confessed that she knew of the kid
mapping plot from the first from one
of the four %kidnapers whom she ex-
pected to marry. Campignacio said
that these four were Stefano Monfre
Tony Gendusa, Angelo Cacatari and
an Italian named Incanterra. The
police said they expected to capture
these men within two or three days.
The other prisoners directly implicat-
ed by the confession are Campignacio's
wife, Frank Gendusa and Leonardo
Gebevia.
The dead's boys funeral was held
Sunday afternoon.