The log cabin Democrat., 1907-06-27
FIND BEHEADED BOY
AFTER A TWO WEEKS SEARCH.
 HEADLEss BODY IS FOUND.
FIVE ITALIANS ARE UNDER ARREST
concession Is Wrung from One of the suspects, After Which He Leads
 Searehers to Hiding Place.

NeW Orleans, La-Two miles m the interior of a big swamp. near thla city the headless body of Walter Lamana, an Italian child between and years old, who was kidnaped and held for $6,000 ransom two weeks ego was found by the police and vigi- iantes. 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 tom the body when the decomposi- ton set in The head was found shOrt distance from the body.
 Five Italians, two of them women, are under arrest charged with being accOmplices to the murder, and extra details of the police and deputies are maintaining order in the excited Ital- Ian quarter of the city. All day Sun- day small crowds were dispersed promptly by the police, despite whose precautions report got out summon ing mass meeting at Elk place. Sev enty armed deputies have been placed on guard ;t the Orleans parish prison, the strongest in the state, where three of the prisoners are held, and some safety of two other prisoners who were taken to an adjoining parish.
 Reminder of Mafia Troubles.
 Seldom since the Matia lynchings 16 years ago has New Orleans been so stirred with threats of violence, and some of these threats are made by those who participated in the disOr ders at that time. The law and order element is much stronger than it has been heretofore, large number of leading citizens having pledged them selves to prevent violence.
 The murdered boy was found near St. Rose, about 20 miles from New Orleans. A sweating process wrung confession from ono of the Italian suspects, who was taken from his home in St. Rose about midnight Sat urday night and carried into the woods by combined force 2f officers and vigilantes who had the search in charge This man, Ignazio Campig- nacio, was kept in the woods an hour, when he confessed, charging four Italians with the murder. He said that about the time of a mass meeting in New Orleans more than a week ago, held for the purpose of prosecuting the search for the body, these men, who were in vacant house in St. Rose, became frightened and consulted about what to do with the child. The boy was crying begging to be taken home to his parents, said Campgnacio, and one of the quartetta 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 in a blanket and, after threatening him with death If he tod. took the body into swamp.
 Leads Police Into Swamp.
 Campignacio, after relating the story, led the police into two miles of swamp, where the searchers some times waded Tn water nearly waist deep and at others crawled under tangles of briers. In shallow pool at the end of this search the body was found in a blanket in a clump of cane Returning to the city, the police arrested Nicolina Gebbia, an Italian woman, who is alleged to have confessed that she knew of the kid naping plot from the first from one of the four kidnapers whom she ex- pected to marry. Campignacio said that these four were Stefano Monfre Tony Gendusa, Angelo Cacatari and an Italian named Incanterra. The police said they expected to capture these men within two or three days. The other prisoners directly implicat, ed by the confession are Campignacio's wife, Frank Gendusa and Leonardo Csebevia.
 The deads boys funeral was held Sunday afternoon.