The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-06-24
3Strangled to Death When.
Italians Found Police I'll
Close on Trail. .5
BODY FOUND IN
NEARBY SWAMP
Had Been Stolcnfor Ransom but
Killed When Cries Alarmed
Captors Excitenle11tO Over
Crime inSNcwOrlean
Greatest Since Ma !.
fla Days. III


milcs In the interior OF a big swamp.
near this city, the headless body OF
Walter Lama,la, an Italian child be-
twecn seven and eight years Old who
was Kidnapped and leliS8for $4,000
ransom two weeks ago, wns found by
police and Wig gilantes just before day
break to-day. He had been strangled
to death. according to the confession
of one Of several Italians held by the
s police. 5}
The boys neck is supposed to have
been broken -yien he vas strangled,
causing the head to be separated from
the body when decomposition set IN.
The head was found a short distance
from the body.
Five Italians. two OF them women,
Il are under arrest charged with being
Z accomplices to the murder and extra
details OF police land deputies are
maintaining order in the excited 1tal-.
Ian quarter OF the city. All day long
small crowds have been dispersed
promptly by the police. despite whose
precautions a report has gotten out
snminoning a mass-meeting at Elk
Place. A
Fears of Mob Violence.
Seventy armed deputies have been
placed on guard onssthe Orleans Parish
prison, the strongest In the State.
+ where three of thasprisoners arc held.
and some apprehension has been felt
over the safety OF two other prisoners,
who were last night taken to an ad !
Joining parish. Seldom. since the Ma
fla 7lynchings sixteen yearss3ago, has
New Orleans been so stirred with
4 threats OF violence az f to-day. and
some Of these threats are made by
58 those who participated in the disor-
& ders at that time. The law and order
element is much stronger than8it has
been heretofore, large number OF
leading citizens having pledg ed them
Il eelves to prevent Sviolence. a I
Body Found In swamp. zs.5 asE
The murdered child was found near
ST, Rose. about twenty miles from
4 New Orleans. A sweating s process
Wrung confession from one OF the
Il suspects. who was taken from his
thome In ST. Rose about midnight last
night and carried into the woods by
combined force OF officials and yigi-
lantes. who have had the search in
charge. ss.s 4
This man. gnazi Camplg lgciano, was was
Kept In the woods an, hour. when he
confessed. charging four Italians with
the murder.
stranElcd him to death.
& He said that about the time OF a
mass-meeting in New Orleans, more
than week ago. held for the purpose
OF prosecuting search for tho BODY @
Il these men. who were In vacan. house
y In St Rose, became frightened. and
aconsuted about what to do with the
child. The boy was crying. begging
to he taken home to hts parents, said
{ Campigciano, and one Of the quartet
86 OF kidnappers grabbed the child and
strangled him to death to stop his
#Enolse. Later. two Of the kidnappars
II he said. came to hintcarrying the body
in blanket, and after threatening
him with death If he told, took the
body into the swamp.
Led Search Through Waters.
camplgciano after relating this
story, led the police through two mile.
,,of swamp, where the searchers some
: times waded in water nearly wais
deep and Others crawled under tangle!
4 of briars.
In a shallow pool at the end OF thi
q search the body was found in th
blanket In #clump of wild cane.
Many Italians Arrested.
Returning o4ithe city the police ar
Z rested INicolina Gebbia an Italian wo
man. who is alleged ito have confesse
that she knew the Kidnapping plo
from the first from one OF the fou
x Kldna ppers. Whom she expected a
marry. campigclano said that thes
four We're Stefano Monfre. Tony Gen
dusa. Angelo Cacatari and an Italia
named 1ncanterra. The police sal
they expected to capture these me
within two or three days. The othe
prisoners directly implicated by Il,
4 confession are Campigcianos wifi,
& Frank Gendusai and Leonardo G Gebyi;
The dead boys funeral was held thI
afternoon. BY 6 o'clock this mornin
the entire Italian colony appeared /
have learned the details OF the ,nul
4 der. and the police feared the CROWD
which would gather at the funeral
1t was delayed.