New-York tribune., 1910-12-29
N0[ICE SWOOP DOWN
ON ITALIAN DEN
canture Twenty-Five Men in
Back Room of Elizabeth
Street Store.
VAcHRIS PLANNED RAID
Boy Who Disappeared in July
Identifies One Prisoner. but
Lack of Evidence
Frees Rest.

r,rioys Of the piaudits bestowed upon
xi,gs County by reason. Of the blow 1t
ssal- -fe Black Hand IN sentencing Maria
psnns and her fellow kidnapper Pettenza
a. between q quarter and half certury's s
-esrfiou in the penitentiary, Manhattan
-cun6ed up more than twenty Italians and
,,.t..s them I'D as suspicious persons By
nirhtfall all except two OF the prisoners
.e-e freed Those two, however, were held
or 10 firmly
For many months Lieutenant Tony
-achris. Of Second Deputy Commissioner
rFvan's staff. and Detective Crowley
Known as the Irish Italian" have been
iookine forward 70 the day when they
could IN E sense avense the assassination
4 Lieutenant Petrosini at Palermo. Italy
N 1906 These two were sent over to that
eoun1ry 10 complete his task. and returned
baden with descriptions of bomb throwers
and bad men generally who had sought
.hsse shores These sieuths have kept
their weather eyes peeled ever since that
tine and Eacfris believes that about five
al the men they were after passed under
rs scrutiny yesterday.
He is also of the opinion tnat three Of
those arrested had been convicted Of
crimes in this country within the last three
Years and that three others had a hand IN
tbe Kidnapping Of the Rizzo and Longo
BOYS.
The raid was the result Of the surveil-
lsu.e 10 which Lieutenant Eachris has for
some tine subjected the little store at No
u Eliza beth street. When he learned early
yesterday afternoon that number OF men
we're gathered IN the back ROOM he or
dered descent upon the place Eighteen
prisoners were taken away in patrol
wagons. Four others were later appre-
hen6ed. They were a. between eighteen
snd thirty years Of age and none had been
n the country over four years. according
TO their stories.
Al HEADQUARTERS it was decided 10 send
fer young Rizzo and Longo. The TWO
hcvs however. were unable 70 identify any
II the prisoners The police then recalled
The case Of little Joseph Da Stsfano, who
n the latter part Of July Of this year was
missing from his home at No. 21s Elizabeth
street for eight DAYS. They therefore sent
for him and his mother and brother. AS
: result Of this move a Sicilian who called
himself Giacou1o Crt-ni. Of No. SS5 Eliza
beth street, viii be arraigned this morning
y the First District Court on the charge
- kidnapping His supposed brother,
Giuseppe. was held as 2 material witness.
When the Da Stefano family, exclusive
- The father, who was toe IL to come, ar
-tved q Headauarters, the hoy Joseph. five
-ea-s old, vas told point out the man who
took him away last summer. According
q Lieutenant vachris, when the youngster
Vas ushered into the presence OF the twen-
tv-tzo prisoners he cast one glance along
+he line Of faces ard, pointing 70 Giacomo
-rirai, yelled That's her" Later his
mother ard brother identified Crirni as a
former dweIler II. the tenement house Of
which they are 5anitors. On this evidence
Cri7r1i was locked up with his brother
ID at No 2ls Elizabeth street. however.
another tale is told There the father,
mother and cider t-other declared that
Joseph was not kidnapped Where" asked
-hs rheumatic father last night, where do
ze get the money &c pay2 Sick man. sick
wife. txo small children-who u1aka it,
Do not believe the child, iunrlored the
mother, through an Interpreter He is
=uzt young boy. He does not know what
they mean
= was gathered from the various mem
bers Of the family. al talking az once
Through the same interpreter), tnaI young
goseph was n the habit Of running away
and serting lost No one had ever asked
for money 70 bring him hack. they said
Hardly had the mother and elder son
returned from Headquarters. when self
ervled h-other-tn-Iaw Of Crinni. backed I'd
By -7-c Sicilian friends. called ON the Da
sre.anos 70 find out Why they had allowed
their son 70 get his relative into such : tx.
The Da Stenanos started 70 explain how
sorry they we're. all talking AT cnce.