New-York tribune., 1910-12-23
CONVICTED Of KIDNAPPING
Brooklyn Jury Quickly Flnas
Second Of Gang Guilty.
TRIAL LASTS INTO EVENING
Stanis!ao Fattenza To Be SEN
senced December 81, Same
Time as Maria Kappa.

Stanislao Patience who was indicted win
Maria Rappa for helping 10 kidnap Gu
seppe Longo in Brooklyn on November ~
was convicted last night after rapid-fire
trial before Judge Fawcett in the County
Court, Brooziyn.
The trial was continued into the evening,
and the Jury did not leave the courtroom
until 1880 O'Clock They returned with the
verdict Of Guilty at 1G:45 o'clock. The
prisoner was remanded to the Raymond
street Jail and will be sentenced on De
cember %.
The testimony was little more than re-
capitulation of the evidence taken at the
Maria Kappa trail on Tuesday, when size
also was convicted OF the same offence and
also is to be sentenced on December u
Eight other men and women We're arrest
ed with Maria Kappa and Stanislao Pat
terza. The woman and man were indicted
b1 the Kings County Grand Jury en- De-
remheT II and their trials have been put
through with a dispatch that is extraor-
binary
The prosecution was conducted by Dis
trict Attorney John f. Clarke at yester-
days trial. In his opening address lie IN
formed the jury that the prisoner was the
brains of the gang of kidnappers. The en-
tire case OF the people hung upon the testl-
rnony of little Giuseppe. Detective Corrac
explained that he had picked the man up
on East SD street. after the boy had point
ed him out as a visitor at the Kappa home
The defendant lived two doors away. al
No. S9t East SD street. The detective told
him that the boy knew him.
We'll. that may be So returned the
prisoner but | do not know him
He said that he had, visited No. $50 East
SD street a few days before. An American
had employed him to secure iaborefs to
shovel snow He had secured no laborers,
and the American had disappeared. and
he did not know who he was Mr. clarke
showed the detective piece of dynamite
and ASKED him about 1t. He said that ne
and another detective had found 1t IN a
closet at Pattenza's house.
The Longo boy was then put on the
stand. He repeated his story of Tuesday
regarding the visits paid TO the Kappa
home by Pattenza, at one time interrupt
ing his story to point at the prisoner
Look at him. he cried; hes been
laughing at me-
Andrew g. Morgan. the prisoners s law
yer. tried in vain to shake the boys testl-
ir,ony The Rizzo boy also was put ON the
stand and repeated the story he told at
the first trial
The Rev Louis Baretta, of No. S3S East
9th street formerly of ST Johns Roman
Catholic Church: John J. Maffi. a druggist
of No. 11Gs Sixth avenue. Manhattan. and
George II. Alger a contractor, of No. So
Central Park West, Manhattan. testified
for Pattenza as TO his character.
Pattenza was then called on to testify.
He. said he was a Iaborer, thirty-five years
Old and that he had been seven years in
this country, all OF which time he had
lived at the same place. He said he had
gone to school up to his nineteenth year.
when he entered the Italian army, in which
he served three years.
MIR Clarke asked him directly If be had
kidnapped the Loneo boy and he denied
having done SO. He declared he had known
Maria Kappa and her husband in Italy.
After the verdict Judge Fawcett ad-
dressed the jury, saying that they were
to be congratulated. and that the convic-
ton would have a great effect on the Black
Hand organization. He stated that un-
doubtedly Pattenza was the leader Of the
band that had kidna pped the Rizzc and
Longo boys. The detectives who made the
arrests and District Attorney Clarke de-
case said Judge Fawcett, and had given
TO the world splendid Christmas present.
He intimated that he would show no
leniency in sentencing the prisoner on
Tuesday.