The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-06-27
CHILD CRIED
TO GO HONE;
WAS MURDERED
CHILD CHOKED AND HIS NECK
is BROKEN BY THE ASSASSlNS.
Decomposition Had Severed the Head
From the Body When a Search
ing Party Finally Succeed
ed in Locating 1t.

New Orleans. June 4-Two miles
In the interior of a big swamp near
this city the headless body of Walter
Lamana, an Italian child between Z
and years old, who was kidnapped
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 po-
lice. The 5oy's neck is supposed to
have been broken when he was stran-
gled, causing the head to become sepa-
rated from the body when decomposi
ton set III. The head was found a
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 policean 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 been felt over the safety of
two other prisoners who were taken to
an adjoining parish. Seldom since the
! Malta lynchiHg sixteen years ago has
New Orleans been so stirred with
threats of violence.
Facts Sweated Out of Him.
The murdered boy was found near
ST. Rose, about twenty 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
and carried into the woods by a COM
b1ned force of officials and vigilantes
who had the search in charge. This
man, Ignazio 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 blanket, and after threatening
him with death if he told took the
body into swamp. Campigciano, aft
er relating this story, led the police
through two miles of swamp where
the searchers sometimes waded in wat
err nearly waist deep and at others
crawled under tangles Of briars. In
! shallow pool at the end OF this search
the body was found in the blanket in
clumn of cane.
Woman Knew of the Plot.
Returning to the city the police ar
1 rested Nicolina Gebbia, an italian wO-
man who is alleged to have confessed
i that she knew of the kidnapping plot
from the first, from one Of the four
/ k1dnapers whom she expected to mar
/ ~. Campigciano said that these four
were Stefano Monfre, Tony Gendusa.
! Angelo Cacatari and an italian named
Incanterra. The police said they ex
pected to capture these men within
/ two or three days. The other prison
ers directly implicated by the confe5-
sion are Campigciano's wife, Frank
Gendusa and Leonardo Gebvfa.