The evening world., 1910-12-15
Vito Sorrisi and Boy Lieuten.
ant Hunted by Detectives
in Many Cities.
FLED AT RAID ON GANG.
East SIDE Den Said to Have
Been Prison for Many Chill
dren Who Were Stolen.

Sixty Central office detectives are
scattered to-day through Connecticut,
New Jersey. Boston and certain New
settlements looking for a handsome.
we'll dressed Sicilian about forty years
old, a brown-skinned. we'll fed. smiling
chap with a biack mustache md glisten-
ing white teeth. by name Vito Sorrisi.
When they have caught him, II they
ever do. the Central Office will have In
its grip the chief of the group of Black
Hand child stealers and dynamiters.
whose organization was broken up last
week when Second Deputy Police Com
missioner Flynn's men mad their raid
on tho den at No. s3o-S32 East sixty
second street.
From an authoritative inside source
an Evening World reporter learned
to-day that the real leader OF the gang
was not Sebastions Gainbrone. one OF
the ten now In Jail. Gainbrone was
never a central figure OF the f~ive-year-
old conspiracy. He was merely an incl
dental worker. obeying tho orders OF
his superior. For purposes of their
own the heads of the Police Depart
ment chose to invest the cowed and
sullen Gainbrone with a false glory.
Meanwhile they were searching dill
gently in Little italy uptown. in Little
Italy downtown. on the lower wesi
side, in westchester. the Bronx and
Brooklyn wherever In the Greater City
Sicllians n Calabrians were to be
found In number-for this Vito Sorrisi.
the man whom they have all along
regarded as the guiding genius of the
band.
Fled With Boy Lieutenant.
Word reached Headquarters day be-
fore yesterday by a police underground
source that Sorrisi had broker through
the line and that he had escaped from
the city and probably got out Of the
State. He went by night. wearing a
Scotch plaid cap. a dark suit and a
long new overcoat. and he was accom-
panied by Giuseppe Sc'ri. the twenty
year-pld son-in-law OF s. Baretta. the
grocer at the Sixty-third street address,
who Is now being held, along with
Baretta's daughter. Sciri's wife.
Despite his youth Sciri is said to be
the chief lieutenant of Sorrtsl In all the
kidnappings and bomb throwings. 1t Is
believed at the Central ONCE that the
pair are hiding together somewhere. II
Flynn gets his hands on Sorrlsi and
young Scirt, he thinks. from the evidence
and the confession he has on and al
ready. that he will have the handspring
and balance wheel of the most danger
Gus criminal machine that has operated
here for a decade.
To-day, for the first time. certain Gen.
trail ONCE officials were able to confirm
what they had all along suspected-that
the double tenement In East Sixty-third
street was used as a hiding place for
other stolen children besides little
Giuseppe Longo. who was rescued, and
little Michael Rizzo. whom the abduct-
ors set free when they found the police
close behind them.
For example. the man who had the
leasing OF the house was John Bozufn.
the banker. at No. 1l49 Second avenue,
whose little son was stolen some years
ago and mysteriously returned after
BozuHi had. It IL believed. paid heavy
tribute. 1t now develops that Bozum
had reason to couple the theft OF his
child with some OF the very men and
women who rented flats from him. so
about eighteen months ago he decided
that he would not renew their leases,
which were about to expire.
"Persuaded" With a Bomb.
Immediately afterward the front of his
banking house was blown to pieces with
high explosives. Bozuffi took the him
He permitted the gang to stay IN the