New-York tribune., 1910-12-10
Michael Rizzo, Crying, Found
Alone in italian Quarter
of Harlem.
TELLS POLICE VAGUE STORY
Ten Alleged Child Stealers, Ac-
cused Of Holding Him for
Ransom, Held in S1G,-
600 Bail Each.

picked up by an Italian in East 10th
street, between Second and Third ave
nues. and taken to the East 1G4th street
police station.
The Italian. John F1enzino. of No. 312
East 1o6th street. told the police that
he found the Rizzo boy standing by
burned-out bonfire crying with a penny
tightly held in his hand When asked
il he was lost the boy said he was and
wrote his name and address on piece
Of paper for Flenzino on the way to the
police station.
Following the arrest of the eight men
and two women alleged to be impli-
Gated in the kidnappings. the police con-
fidentIy announced yesterday that the
Rizzo boy would turn up by last night.
The grandfather and mother of the little
fellow. with whom ne lived. at No. go
Fifth avenue. Brooklyn. said when they
came 10 the police station to get him
last night that they had not paid any
OF the 5000 ransom money demanded
by the kidnappers.
The boy told rather vague story to
the police of his wanderings and i'm
prisonment in some house with dark
locking man" whom he called boss"
constantly guarding him until yesterday
when boss" took him to a moving pict-
ure show ''Afterward Boss led him
TO the bonfire. where other boys were
playing. gave him penny and told him
70 wait there until he returned. Little
Michael said he waited and waited until
all the other boys went home and left
him alone by the fire. He got cold and
hungry. he said. as the fire died down,
and he had no wood to put on it
Then F-lenzino found him and he was
glad 20 go with his new guardian and
get warm and have something to eat, he
said. The boy wore the same clothes
which he had on the day he disappeared,
On NoveT1lb Der 10. They were sha bby and
dirty and the little fellows face was
drawn and pale He evidently had not
had much rood or care from his captors.
Wires Hum with News.
When Lieutenant Conners. who was
on the desk ar the station when the boy
was brought in. realized that his charge
was the missing Michael, for whom the
police had been looking for the last
three weeks. he made the wires hum
between the station and Brooklyn head
quarters Detectives Crowley and De-
voti. of the Brooklyn Italian squad, has
tened TO the boys home and got his
grandfather and mother.
They brought them to the East 104th
street station. and his two relatives
sobbed and kissed the youngster for a
long time after they had got him into
their arms The lost boy appeared
equally glad 10 see them
a little later the detectives carefully
questioned young Michael He was will
bright in answering questions. He could
not remember the day on which he was
taken away. He said that while he and
the Longo boy and Tommy Duffy. pal
of theirs, were playing in the street
about q bonfire. dark looking man
with a black mustache. wearing d yell
low and white striped sweater, came
UP and told the boys he would buy over
coats for them and take them to NOV
ing picture show If they would come
with him.
They first went with him to moving
picture show in Third avenue, and there
Tommy Duffy tried to get the two other
hoys 10 go home. and the man chased
him away. Michael said. The Rizzo boy
couldn't remember the Longo boys being
with them after they came out of the
picture show.
Michael Describes Wanderines.
He didn't remember seeing the Longo
boy at any time after that He said that
the man took him on a car. and they
rode over d bridge and took another car
and rode a long way to house where
there were q woman and a girl and a
baby The rooms were on the ground
floor. he said. and he slept with a lame
bcv. who told him he had hurt his leg.
Boss" stayed there with them, and in d
day or two the man took him away on
another journey, this time on four diff
ferent cars the last one apparently J
train. as Michael said there was an en-
gine attached TO 1t.
Again at the second house they found
a woman with a baby, but not the same
one. he said. Boss" fitted into the sec
ord family as easily as the first The
rooms were on the floor above a saloon,
Michael thought. and there was a frui,
stand on the corner near by. He remem-
hered A watchman's shanty across the
street. and said lots of men worked there
during the day
II cried a good deal and asked Boss
m take me home, but ne always gave me
pennies and never would let me go out
of the house 10 spend them" the boy
said Boss treated me all right when
T didn't cry. and they gave me some
thing 10 eat when I said l was hungry,
Inn they wouldn't let me go out, and I
nlsved with the baby and looked out of
the windows
Then Michael told how Boss took
him out Yesterday on two different cars
across a bridge from which he could see
three other bridges. and TO the picture
show. and finally deserted him at the
bonfire.
Think He Was Held in The Bronx.
The police believe the boy was brought
over either the Third avenue bridge
across the Harlem River from The
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