The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-08-06
K|DNAP SUSPECT
WANTS To SUICIDE
ITALIAN AT ST. LOUIS MAKES
CONFESSION TO POLICE,
ANOTHER ASKS TO END HIS LIFE

Kidnapped Children Had Received
Received Communications From the
Abductors, Is Dispelied.
st. Louis, Mo-, Aug. 5.-Rumors that
the Vivianos, fathers Of Grace and
Iommasso Viviano who were kidnapped
from their homes here Monday, were
communicated secretly with by the
children's alleged abductors, were dis.
PEELED today by Pietro Viviano calling
at the police station and telling Can.
tain Schoppe he would prosecute the
abductors when they are captured. He
told the police he and his cousin of
the same name did not have s25 900
which the special delivery letter de.
manded as ransom.
The police are holding joseph Pa
como and Lamancia Girolma. the latter
having confessed last night that Pa.
como, Marchesi Benedetto and Samuel
Iurrissi, who was last seen with the
children, and Vincenzo Ricardo ar.
ranged with him last Sunday to have
the trunks, which were found in Chi.
cago, hauled to an express Office here.
When Pagono was told of Girolma's
confession, he pleaded ignorance and
begged to be allowed to end his life.
Benedetto, TURKISH, Ricardo, his
wife and mother-in-law, are being
sought and it is thought they are in
Chicago, having reached there by cleo
trio and steam roads through Illinois. |
st. Louis, Aug. 5.-The discovery
that three trunks had been shipped
from st. Louis to Chicago by men sus-
pected OF the kidnapping of Grace and |
Tomasso Viviano confirmed the local
police in the belief that the disappear.
ance 81 the children and the demand
OF $4,000 for them was the result of a
carefully worked out Matchmaking
plot, which did not, however, contem-
plate harm to the children.
The local police officials had no idea
that the trunks found in Chicago con-
tanned the bodies of the children. For
this reason Chief Creecy telegraphed
TO the Chicago authorities to use their
own Judgment in opening the boxes.
The message was in answer to a CON-
from Chicago to the effect
that the bodies were believed to be in {
The trunks.
The st. Louis police theory of the {
trunks is that they contain the prop.
erty of Samuel Turrisi, who is be.
leved to have lured the Viviano chill.
irpn from thair 1
'ers of the Matchmaking gang. The :
runks were taken from the house of
Joseph Pagono here Monday afternoon
md 1t is known that Pagono and Tur- .
1ssi were friends and that a man an. -
Wering the latter's description left l
'agono's house an hour before the =
hlldren disappeared Monday. Con- ;,
letting stories told by the Pagonos and .
he fact that the three trunks left their
ONE almost at the same time the 7,
hildren were kidnapped, with the ad- =
ltional fact that four strange men :,
eft the Pagono home fifteen minutes :,
fter the trunks were taken away.
Fad the police to believe that the con- y
piring kidnapers shipped their prop =
rty to place where they believed 1t :,
'ould be safe from search while they
egotiated with the Vivianos for ran.
ON.
This theory was confirmed last night
hen the local police were informed
nat an inspection of the trunks con- u
ents by the Chicago authorities re.
called only clothing and similar ar
cles. 1t is thought possible, however, 81
nat important evidence may be ad- D
uced from proof OF ownership of
lie clothing as 1t might tend to reveal Ia
lie personnel Of the kidnapers.
The important arrests in the case Ia
three, the prisoners being y"
amaneis Girolma, who hauled the
'unks to the express Office here Mon. a
ay; Pietro Fanara. a groceryman who OF
as Giroloma's employer, and another II
nploye OF Fanara's establishment. b'
he latter two were released after a b
ing questioning had convinced the po-
ce that they knew nothing OF the kid.
aping plot.
The police now have in custody CT. fo
'loma and Joseph Pagono. The lat m
r is believed to have been a more or la
IS active participant in the crime, st
1T efforts to obtain information from W
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