The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-24
Italians Killed Little Walter Lamana. STRANGLED TO DEATH
 TO COVER UP CRIME New Orleans is in a Fever of
 Excitement. Kidnappers Confess to Terrible Deed and Five Persons are in Parish Prison An Outbreak
 May Occur.

New orleans, June 23.-TWo miles fn- to the interior of a big swamp near this city the headless body of Walter Lamana. an Italian child between seven and eight years old. who was kidnap- ped and held for s6,0o0 ransom two weeks ago. was found by police and yigilantes just before daybreak today. He had been strangled to death ac- cording to the confession of one of sev- eral 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 decomposition set in The head was found short dis tance from the body.
 Five Italians, two of them women. are under arrest, charged as acces- sories to the murder. and extra de- tails of police and deputies are main taining order in the excited Italian quarter fthe city. All day long small crowds have been dispersed promptly by the police, despite whose precaut-- ions a report had gotten out summon ing a mass meeting at Elk Place. Seventy armed deputies nave been plac- ed on guard at 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 1.-two other prisoners who were taken to an adjoining parish.
 Seldom since the Maria lynchings. atx loU nrln N.C been so stirred with threats of vio- lence as today and some of these threats are made by those who parti- cipated in the disorders at that time The law and order element is much stronger than it has been heretofore. a large number of leading citizens of all nationaIities and the citys leading commercial bodies having pledged themselves to prevent violence.
 Italian COnfesses.
 The murdered boy was found near St. Rose about twenty miles from New Orleans. in a territory which has been well searched with bloodhounds in the past few days. Where the dogs failed to locate the boy a third degree" sweating process wrung a confession from one of the suspects, who was talk en from his home in St. Rose about midnight last night and carried into the woods by a combined force of the officials and vigilantes who have had the seaSch in charge This man, Ignazio Campigciano, was kept in the woods an hour, when he confessed. charging four Italians with the mur- der.
 He said that about the time of a mass meeting in New Orleans more than a week ago, held for the purpose of pros ecuting Nsearch for the boy, these men, who were in a vacant house in St. Rose, became frightened and con- suited about what to do with the child. The boy was crying, begging to be taken home to his parents, said Camp igciano, and one of the quartet of kid nappers grabbed the child and stran- gled him to death to stop his noise. Later two of the kidnappers he said, came to him carrying the body in q blanket and. after threatening hipe S~reh death if hes told. took the body into the swamp.
 Campigciano after relating this story led the police by moonlight through two miles of swamp, where the search CTS sometimes waded in water nearly waist deep, and at others crawled un- der tanxles of briars. In a shallow pool at the end of this search the body was found in the blanket in a clump 
 of wild cane.
 Woman Knew of Crime.
 Returning to the city the police ar rested Nicolina Gebbia, an Italian wo- man, who is alleged to have confessed that she knew of the Kidnapping lot from the first from one of the four kidnappers whom she expected to mar ry. Campigciano said that these four were Stefano Monfre. Tony Gendusa, Angelo Cacatari and an Italian named Mcanterra.
 The police said they expected to cap ture these men within two or three days. The other prisoners directly implicated by the confession are Cam" pigciano's wife, Frank Gendusa and Leonardo Gebvia.
 By order of the police the dead boys funeral was held this afternoon. Even bv six o'clock this morning the entire Italian colony appeared to have learn ed the details of the murder and the police feared the crowds which would gather at the funeral if it was delay ed. A string of carriages about 15 blocks long followed the hearse. and police kept the squares immediately ad- Joining the Lamana house free from