Evening star., 1908-01-12
PESC|A GIRL LOCATED
Missing italian Reported to Be
in Boston.
RETICENCE ABOUT CASE
Strange Man on the Street Gives
Brother a Tip.
LEFT HOME WITH FIVE CENTS
Rumors of kidnapping, Elopement
and a Skylark-Philadelphia Girl
Also Out of Sight.
LEFT HOME WITH FIVE CENTS

Special Dispatch to The Star
NEW YORK. January 1l.-Elvira Pes
cia the beautiful and talented Italian girl
who disappeared from her home at No.
1I East 116th street December ~.
and subsequently sent to her mother
letter containing suicide threat. has
been located in Boston. Her brother. I'm
rico Pescia. and her father. a retired
real estate dealer, have arranged IL 80
after her
The members OF the Pescia fataly hare
suddenly become retic, 1T :t.5"Gt th., case
of Elvira When they We. unan'r 80
get any trace OF her ihrs W lcomed it-
porters To the house and were free VIII
information Mrs. Pescia. the mother.
said today:
Now that Elvira has been found we
| have no more to say. She is romantic
| girl She spent seven hours a day read
| ing romantic novels. | think that in go
ing away she felt that she was doing
something heroic"
Sent Strange Letter Home.
When Elvira Pescia left her home, her
mother says. she had only ) cents in her
| strange letter in which she spoke of hav-
alt
The letter did not sound as though il
were composed by the girl. Her brother,
Enrico. allowed himself to think that per-
haps she had some suitor of whose iden-
tity the family was ignorant and that she
had eloped with him. The fact that she
got to Boston and has been living there
for nearly two weeks indicates that she
was aided in a financial way by some one.
According to Mrs. Pescia the first clue
ITO. the whereabouts of her daughter was
received last night by Enrico Pesca, who
was approached on the street by a
stranger. This man told him that Elvira
could be found at a certain address in
Boston. He said he had been sent to in
form the family by some one interested.
Early today Enrico Pescia communicated
with Boston by long-distance telephone,
and. soon after. left for that city.
Fear Black Handlers Abducted Her.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
PHILADELPHIA. January 11.-Mary
Torrelli. sixteen years old. said to be
one of the prettiest Italian girls in town.
has been missing from her home, 2015
South 18th street. since Thursday.
Her father. Joseph Torrelli, a well-to-do
fruit and produce merchant. says he be-
lieves she has been abducted by members
Of the BLACK Hand" Soeiety. and has
appealed to the city hall detectives to
assist him in his search for her. The girl s
mother is almost Frustrated by her daugh-
ter's unexplained absence from home, and
has neither partaken of food or sleep in
forty-eight hours.
The assistant superintendent of police
has taken charge of the case. and detailed
several detectives to investigate. Torrelli
says that his daughter had no love af-
fair and that she could not have eloped.
Early Thursday morning Torrell sent his
daughter with basket of fruit to the
residence of her aunt. Mrs. Maria Stera,
who resides at 800 Sheridan street She
| failed to return home by evening, and
bar hrot hor Wa find her He
| visited the home of Mrs. sierra, and was
| informed that Mary had not been at the
house that day, and that the fruit had
not arrived.