The evening world., 1910-12-12
KIDNAPPED BOYS
TELL GRAND JURY
HOW BAND WORKED
Young Rizzo and Longo Give
Testimony That May Lead
to Indictments.

The Grand Jury Of Kings County. took
up to-day consideration OF the cases OF
the eight men and two women who are
held under $4,000 bail each on the
charge Of kidnapping Michael Rixzo and
Giuseppe Longo and holding then for
ransom In a Manhattan tenement. The
Longo boy. the Rizzo boy. their parents
and other witnesses were heard, and It
10 expected that Indictments will be
handed down without delay.
The Grand Jury proceedings followed
the arTaignment OF the prisoners In the
Fifth Avenue Police Court. This court
is OH the easterly border Of a district
in Brooklyn that is populated almost
exclusively by Italians. and hordes Of
them fiocked TO the courthouse and vi
entity an hour before the case was
called.
The court room was packed. the halls
and stairways were jammed and the
crowd overlooked into Fifth avenue and
side streets. Groups OF Italians shivered
and stamped their feet In doorways and
other sheltered spots for blocks around
Five lawyers represented the prison.
ers. who are held In / 1000 bal each.
Assistant District Attorney Michael May
appeared for the prosecution and asked
for an adjournment.
Fight Over Delay.
lie explained to the Court that the
Kidnapping Industry. which the prison.
ers are suspected of managing. had
many ramihcations. few OF which the
detectives ia been able to follow any
distance. New developments were
cropping out hourly. Mr.. May said. and
he asked for a little more time IN which
to arrange the evidence.
The fvo lawyers for the defense OBJ
jected IN chorus. One OF them with a
louder voice than the others called
the attention of Magistrate Tighe to the
fact that the case had been adjourned
on Saturday. The Magistrate said that
Saturdays adjournment was to enable
the prisoners to retain counsel and he
did not think the request for further
delay unreasonable. He granted an ad-
journment until Wednesday morning at
0 o'clock.
Mob Blocks Traffic.
When the adjournment was
tho crowd in the courtroom and CORR
doris surged out into the street and CON-
gregated IN front of the Courthouse.
Hundreds who had been standing at q
distance swarmed up n in u few
minutes tranic In FIFTH avenue was
blocked.
The crowd completely surrounded the
BLACK Maria,' which waited 10 take
the prisoners to Police Headquarters.
While there were no hostile demon
STATIONS the detectives in charge OF the
prisoners decided to take no chances
and called for help. The reserves from
he Fifth avenue station We're ordered
out. They dispersed the swarming crui-
odty seekers n opened a way for the
wagon. alongside which detectives
walked until It was out OF the zone
OF excitement.
Complains Of "Third Degree"
After the court proceedings Charles
w. Gould OF No. 6 Beekman street. n
lawyer representing the interests of
Sebastiano Glambrone, who was ar.
rested In the room With the Longo boy
in the East Sixty-thlrd street tenemen,
headquarters OF the kidnappers. voiced
a complaint against the police, lie de
clared that Giambrorl vas beaten
kicked n blnckjacked IN RrookIyr
Police Headquarters in an effort &c
make him confess that he was the has
band OF Marie Reppa, the woman wn,
had charge OF the Longo boy while h,
was a captive and has also hecn iicnti
fled by young I,lzzo as his custodian,
The detectives In charge OF the al
legged k%idnappers grimly admitted tina