The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1909-10-21
VIVIAN0 CHILDREN
FOUND DESERTED
KIDNAPPED BOY AND GIRL LEFT ON
STREET IN CHICAGO COLD
AND HUNGRY.
DECLARE $4,000 WAS PAID.
Police Assert Parents Complied with De-
mands of Kidnapers for the
Ransom.
DECLARE $4,000 WAS PAID
BOTH ARE TAKEN TO HOSPITAL.

CHICAGO. H., Oct. 16.-Two little
italian children. shivering with cold and
i'll from long neglect and i'll treatment
were found Thursday night in the Hud
son avenue police district and have been
identified as the long missing Viviano
children. kidnapped from St Louis on
August = and for whom the police of the
whole nation, spurred on by reward of
$1,000, have been searching.
The parents of the children, Tomasso,
years old, and Grace, aged 2, cousins,
were notified at once, and started for
Chicago Friday night. Meanwhile two
ST. Louis detectives hurried to the East
Chicago avenue station and made the
Identification doubly sure, and later the
children, suffering apparently from
dope given them to keep them from
making an outcry, were taken to the
Pass,vant hospital, where it was said
the little girl was in a serious cond-
ton from exposure, and with well-de-
veloped case of pneumonia.
Ransom Reported Paid
No trace of the kidnaper was found.
1t is the positive conviction of the ST.
Louis police that he turned his little
captives loose into the street only after
he had received the S25,O0O ransom
which he had demanded. In fact, Night
Chief of Police Gillaspy Of st. Louis
said that he had learned on good au-
thority that the parents of the chill
dren had actually paid the %25OOO to
the kdnaper or his agents at little
town near Collinsville, ILL., Probably
word was sent from there to Chicago of
the payment, the police say, and the
children, who are believed to have been
held here since they were stolen, were
then abandoned.
Samuel Turrisi is believed to have kid
mapped the children. He was boarder at
the home of Grace Viviano's father and
worked at the latter's factory. Turrisi
was accustomed to buy the children ice
cream almost daily and in that way had
gained their confidence. On August . he
did not go to work, feigning illness. That
was the last seen of the three.
Iurrisi is believed TO have brought the
children to Chicago at once. The police
believe he may still be in hiding here
and last night they began a search for
him. No trace of him was found, but
their efforts will be redoubled today.
All available officers, including the
BLACK Hand squad, have been put to
work on the case
Woman Finds Children
Thursday night at about Z 80 O'Clock
Mrs. Anna NenZeg, was standing in
front of her home, 1882 Larrabee street.
waiting for her husband to come from
work. With her mind on her supper and
her welcome to her husband, she was lost
to other scenes in the street. Then she
felt a tug at her dress and two small
arms clasped about her knees while Il
pitiful little voice was calling Mama,
mama"
Looking down, Mrs. Venzeg saw a
tiny little girl wrapped in sort of red
sweater coat and boy lily clothed
against the harsh winter temperature
She tried to tell the boy to call the lit
tie girl and take her away, but as she
was unable to speak English she could
not make herself understood When
Mrs. Nenzeg started toward the boy he
refused TO let her get close to him and
ran north on Larrabee street.
Two Refuse to Talk.
Neither child would talk even when
questioned by Patrolman Parodi in their
own tongue. When shown pictures of
the two lost children the boy pointed at
the photograph of the girl. That's
Grace and that's me-" pointing at his
own photograph.
That the children had become too
great care for the kidnaper and that
he chose to lose them rather than hold
them longer Is the theory Of the police
1t is believed that the children were
given something 10 make them sleepy
and taken out into the streets and lost.
At any rate, the girl was no i'll that
the police surgeon had her sent to the
Passavant hospital, where she will be
given treatment. The boy was also
taken to the hospital, as the police at
this time do not want to separate them