The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-24
Five Italians Are Held for Mur-
 der and Kid0aping
.ClMPIGCIANO CONFESSES ALL
After Telling Officers How the Kid mapped Boy Was Stranged to Death Leads Them to Body
 in Swamp.

New Orleans, June 2ss-Two miles into the interior of a big swamp, near thls city. the headless body of Walter Lamana an Italian child between and s years old who was kidnapped and held for s60o ransom two weeks ago was found by police and vgllantes just before daybreak today. 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 decomposition set in. The head was found a short distance from the body
 Five Italians, two of them women, are under arrest charged as accessories to the murder. and extra details of police and deputies are maintaining order in the ex- cited Italian quarter of the city. Al day long small crowds .have been disRersed promptly by the police, despite whose precautions q report has gotten out sum. moning a mass meeting at Elk Place. Seventy armed deputies have been placed on guard at the Orleans Paris prison; the strongest in the state, where three of the prisoners are held and some appre- henslon has been felt over the safety of two other prisoners who were last taken to an adjoining parish
 Seldom since the Maha lynehings, six. teen years ago has New Orleans been SD stirred with threats of violence as today and some of these threats are made by those who participated in the disorders
 rrt, ala is much stronger than 1t has been heretofore, large number of leading citizens of all natonallties and the eity's leading commercial bodies having pledged | themselves to prevent violence
 The Murdered Boy.
 The murdered boy was found near St Rose about twenty miles from New Or leans, in a territory which has been well searched with bloodhounds in the past few days. While the dogs failed to locate the boy. a third degree" sweating pro- cess wrung a confession from one of the suspects who was taken from his home in St Rose about midnight last night and carried into the woods by a combined force of the officials and vigtlantes, who have had the search in charge. This man. Tgnazio Campigciano, was kept in tile woods an hour, when he confessed. CnafElHR TOUT llUIldHs WllI lllG luuldti.
 He said that about the time of mass meeting in New Orleans, more than Il week ago, held for the purpose of prose- cutting search for the boy, these men. who were in q vacant house, in St. Rose. became frightened and consulted about what 10 do with the child. Tie boy WAS crying, begging to be taken home tn his parents, said Gampgciano, and one of the quartette of 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 i'll a blanket, and after threatening him with death if he told, took the body into the swamp.
 Leads Police to Body.
 Gampigeiano after relating this story. led the police by moonlight through two miles of swamp. where the searchefs sometimes waded in water nearly waist deep and a others crawled under tangles of brars. In a shallow pool at the end of this search, the body was found in the blanket in a clump of wild cane.
 Returning 10 the cny, the police af- rested Nicolna Gebbia an Italian woman who is alleged 10 have confessed that she knew of the Kidnapping plot from the first, from one of the four kidnapefs whom she expected to marry. Campig ciano said that these four were Stefano Manfre Tony Gendusa. Angelo cacatar and an Italian named Incanterra.
 The police said they expected to cap ture these men within two or three days. The other prisoners directly implicated by the confession of Campgciano's wife. Frank Gendusa, and Leonado Gebvia.
 By order of the police the dead boys funeral was held this afternoon. Even by 6 o'clock this morning the entire Italian colony appeared to have learned the de- tails of the murder and the police feared the crowds which would gather at the funeral if it was delayed. A string of carriages about fifteen blocks long follow cd the hearse and police kept the squares immediately adjoining the Lamana house free from lolterers on foot during the cervfpps