The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-06-24
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miles inio the interior of big
swamp near this city the hsadIess
body Of Waiter i.smaHa, an Italian
child between and : years old.
| who was Kidnapped and held for
s6.oa0 ransom two weeks ago. ~aH
/ found by the police Just before day
break today lie had been stranglea
/ to death. according To the confession
/ OF one of the several Italians held
! by the police.
| Tn. boys neck lis supposed TO
! have been broken when he ~as
come 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 with be
| ing accomplices to the murder. and
extra details of police and deputies
are maintaining order In the excited
| Italian quarter of the city. All day
| long small crowds have been dis
persed promptly by the police, des-
| pite whose precautions report has
gotten out summoning a mass meet
ing at Elk Place. Seventy armed dep
uties have been placed on guard at
the Orleans Parish prison, the
strongest in the state, where three
of the prisoners are held, and some
apprehension has been felt for the
safety of the two other prisoners
who were taken to an adjoining par
ish.
The murdered boy was found near
st. Rose, about twenty miles from
New Orleans. The sweating process
wrung a confession from one or the
susDects. who was taken from MS
home in St Rose about midnight
last night and carried into the woods
by a combined force OF the OFFICIALS
and vigilantes who have had the
| search in charge. This man, lsnazlo
Campigiano. was kept In the WOODS
an hour, when he confessed. charg-
\tnx four Italians with the muroef
VI sa.n that about the time OF q mas'
meeting In New Orleans more tna'
4 a week ago. held for the purpose
\ prosecuting the search for the ooA
, thase men who were in a vacan
house in st. Rose, became fr1Ehteh
cd and consulted about what 10 de
with the child The boy was crying
haeeing TO be taken to his parents
said Campiganio, and one or the
jouartet of kidnapers grabbed the
child and strangled him to dea'h 70
stop his noise. Later two of the kld-
napers. he said, came to him carry
ling the body in a blanket, ana, a1ter
| threatening him with death II he
told, took the body into the swamp.
! Campigiano, after relating TINS
story led the police Though two
miles of swamp, where the seafcheIs
sometimes waded in water nearly
waist deep and at others crawled un-
der tangles of briers. In q shallow
pool at the end of this search the
| body was found In the blanket IN "a
! clump Of wild cane.
/ Returning 10 the city, the ponce
arrested Nicolina Gehbia, an Italian
woman. who is alleged TO have con-
/ tossed that she knew of the kiduap-
ing ulot from the first from one ot
fbe four tidnapers. whom she expec-
ted to- marry Campigiano said thal
Itbese four were Stefano Monite,
Tony Gedusa. angelo Cacatari ANA
Ian italian uaued lucanterra. The
police said they expected Jo capture
these men within two coz three days.
The other prisoners directly lmpIi-
Gated hy the confession are Campis-