Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-06-26
Child Murdered by His italian
Ndnapers Because He -
Cried to Go Home.
crooked AND HIS NECK BROKEN
Decomposition Had Severed the Head
from the Body When Found
Searchers Led to the Poor Little
Corpse by One of the Fiends
Implicated in the Dia.
bolism.

new orleans. June 24.-IWO miles
in the interior of big swamp near
this city the headless body of Walter
Lanana, an Italian child between
and s years old, who was kidnaped
and held for $4,000 ransom two weeks
ago, has been found by the police and
vigilantes. He had been strangled to
death, according to the confession of
one OF several Italians held by the no.
lice. The boys neck is supposed to
have been broken when he was stran-
glcd, causing the head to become sepa-
rated from the body when decomposi-
tion set iii. The head was found n
short distance from the city.
Five Are Under Arrest.
Five Italians. two of them women,
are under arrest charged with being
accompliceS to the murder and extra
details of polceand deputies are main
taining order in the excited Italian
quarter of the city. Seventy armed
deputies have been placed on guard at
the Orleans parish prison. the strong.
est in the state, where three of the
prisoners are held. and some apprehen-
sion has heen felt over the safety of
two other prisoners who We're taken to
an adjoining parish. Seldom since the
Malta lynching sixteen years ago has
New Orleans been so stirred with
threats of violence.
Facts Sweated Ont of Him.
The murdered boy was found near
st. Rose, about twenty miles from
New Orleans. A sweating process
wrung confession from one of the
italian suspects who was taken from
his home in st. Rose about midnight
and carried into the woods by a COM
bihed force of officials and vigilantes
who had the search in charge. This
man, lgnaZio Campigciano, was kept
in the woods an hour, when he con
fessed. charging four Italians with the
murder. He said that about the time
of mass meeting in New Orleans
more than a week ago. held for the
purpose of prosecuting search for the
body, these men, who were in a vacant
house in st. Rose, became frightened
and consulted about what to do with
the child.
How the Child Was Slain.
The boy was crying, begging to be
taken home to his parents, said Cam.
pigciano. and one of the quaretette of
the kidnapers 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 n blanket, and after threatening
him with death If he told took the
body into swamp. Campigciano, aft.
erhreiating this story. led the police
through two miles of swamp where
the searchers sometimes waded in wat
or nearly waist deep and at Others
crawled under tangles of briars. In
shallow pool Mt the end of this search
the nody was found in the blanket in
a clump of cane
Woman Knew OF the Plot.
Returning to the city the police ar
rested Nicolina Gebhia. an Italian wo-
man who is alleged to have confessed
that she knew of the kidnapping plot
from the first. from one of the four
kidnapers whom she expected to mar.
ny. Campisciano said that these four
We're Stefano Monfre, Tony Gendusa.
Angelo cacatari, and an Italian named
1ncanterra. The police said they ex-
rected to capture these men within
two or three days. The other prison
ers directly implicated by the confess
sion are Campigciano's wife. Frank
Gendnsn and Leonardo Gahrfn