The sun., 1907-08-14
BOY TELLS OF HOUSEKEEPING
S-YEAR-OLD, CAUGHT, PEACHES
on HIS BUSY GANG.

His IAttIc Arm Turned Many Latches
In Brooklyn Then He watched while
Fiis Pals Worked Inside Fifty Pieces
Of stolen SIlverwaro Are Recovered.
Annorando Fusko. in the State street
detective bureau. Brooklyn. last night.
proudly disgorged information for which
the police have been looking for many
months. He said that he and three Of his
pals. the oldest Of whom is only IL, had
been committing robberies in the Park
Slope section since the beginning OF sum-
mer.
Annorando is 8 years old. When he was
arrested in the home Of his parents at e2s1z
President street by Detectives Wood and
Pucciano yesterday afternoon he told all
the inner workings Of the gang. He said
that his tiny arm could reach throu gh
openings that would bar a mans and turn
many a latch. The older boys, he said.
usually went into the houses while he re-
manned on watch outside. This, he ex-
planned. was professionally termed laying
kiggy.'
In order to lay kiggy well, Annie-that
was his working title-provided for himself
a small whistle This he footed twice in
intruder simply appeared suspicious. In
this way innumerable burglaries were
successfully accomplished and the gang
came to place great confidence in Annie's
But trouble was brewing. One of the
gang got sore because the eleven-year-old
and the kiggy lookout took more than their
share OF ninety-two-cent pool realized on
the sale Of the stolen silver The objector
didn't mind 80 much about Annie, for he
had been arrested on various occasions for
picking pockets. stealing copper and rob-
bing slot machines, but he could not see
why a -big slob" with no reputation to speak
Of had any right to more than he. So the
kicker said things about the gang. and these
somehow got TO the ears of the police.
In his confession Fusko implicated many
persons among them Antonio Padavono,
a junk dealer OF 2es Fourth avenue. He
said that Padavono was "cheap screw
and had bought most Of their common
silver, but that the real stuff had been sold
to another and much nicer party. The
detectives decided to view the cheap stun
first.
At Padavono's they found a woman in
charge and ordered her to produce the
record Of sales and purchases No entry OF
silverware was found in the book. and the
detectives searched the house wit hout
SSss nsy to Ss
10 make last try. It revealed what they
were after. In the rear Of the junk shop
was a dirty little yard. and in this yard
among heap Of refuse the two detectives
saw the dirty corner Of an old table cover
pull at this brought a shrek from the
woman. and a moment later a lot OF tar
nished silver came to light.
Fifty pieces of silverware were in the
bundle or this Mrs. Michael OHara OF
557 Third street identified seventeen pieces
as having been stolen from her Andrew
Skillman OF lsl Berkeley place and Andrew
Zilber Of 527 Second street identified all OF
the remaining pieces, except thirteen.
The junk shop that took the fancy stuff
was closed when the detectives went there
and they did not know where to find the
proprietor They hope to get him this
morning.
Fusko said that the lads had spent the
proceeds OF the burglaries in seeing the
town. He declared patronizingly that
there wasn't place that he hadn't seen,
frum Coney Island ter Bath Beach. But
you NUTS must not Nv been far he grunted
scornfully. Il thought you wuz goin'ter
fergit that yard"
He was turned over to the Children's
Society and will be arraigned in the Children
Court this morning.