The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-12-23
KIDNAPPER FOUND GUILTY
SUPPOSED HEAD or NOTORI.
Gus GANG OF EXrORTTONERS.
Pattrnxa May He scnssacsd 70 FIFTY Year,
in state Prison-nappa Woman Told
Judge He Was the Leader os the Gang,
hut she Feared to Say II Openly

Ian state Prtsoa-aappa Woman Told
Judge He Was the Leader os the Gang.
hut sho Feared to Say II Openly.
stanislas Pattenza. alias Leonardo
Asmarto. who was jointly indicted with
Maria Kappa for completely in the kid.
mapping Of Giuseppe Longo and Michel
Rizzo. was convicted yesterday before
Judge Fawcett in the County Court in
Brooklyn. and n in the case OF Maria
Kappa. who was tried and convicted on
Tuesday. the legal machinery moved
expeditiously. A jury was secured in
an hour and quarter
In his opening District Attorney Clarke
said he expected TO prove that the pris-
oner was the head OF Black Hand gang
thar had its headquarters as $50. So and
, 334 East SiSty-third street. Manhattan.
While not doing the actual kidnapping
| Pattenza was the brains OF the gang. &C
, cording 70 the District Attorney. and did
the fine work in the operations OF the band
The men who did the stealing OF the boys.
! he said. got away a. soon as their part OF
the work was finished. but this man kent
In touch with the situation and was the
most active in the gperal Matchmaking
scheme.
Much Of the testimony for the prosec,-
ton WINS a repetition of that given in
the trial OF Mrs. Kappa. 1t included
that Of the detectives who made the de-
scent on the Sixty-third street house.
where they recovered the Rizzo boy and
arrested Pa,tenza. Mrs. Kappa and the
eight others. who ar. held n. material
witnesses.
The father of the Longo boy told the
story OF the kidnapping and ident flied
the Black Hand letter he had received
which contained a lock OF the bows hair
and threat 10 send his head TO his parents
in a bundle il a ST.. O0n ransom was not
forthcoming.
Detectiv. Corraro in his testimony
told Of the finding Of a supposed stick
OF dynamite. piec. Of rope. "a stil.tto
and marked newspaper in Patt.nza's
house Andrew G Morgan. attorney
for the prisoner. objected To the intro
duction Of thes. exhibits and they were
withdrawn by the District Attorney
Both boys positively identified the pris-
oner a. the man they had seen during
their captivity. the Lungo boy saying
that he had DOM. to the door OF the room
In which the Kappa woman kept nim
and written his name and his address
as he gave them on n piece of paper
Pattenzl denied on the witness stand
that he had any knowledge Of the kid
mapping either before or after it had
taken place He said that he neither
wrote nor had anything to do with tn.
threatening letters sent TO the LcnRo
boys father. He asserted that he merely
happened 20 cali ~ the Sixty third at rect
house 10 make some inquiry about work.
when me detectives came IN and arrested
him. He also d.aisd that he had ever
Conversed with either of the boys
When the ver5iicr was announced
Judg. fawcrtt turned TO the Jury and
said
Il congratulate YOU on tbs. splendid
verdict YOU have rendered. You cannot
realize the eject - will have on the class. |
OF dastar'!ly villains 60 which thus man |
b"ionE- | know for fact from the |
confessions If tn" Kappa woman that |
Paifen2A Wa tn. leader of this gang |
which held both the RiZZo and the Longo |
boys IN custody She Was reached !
however. hy friends ~ thin. man and |
told that she would Ice killed in open |
court II she confessed on the witness |
stand. She was 80 frightened that she |
couldn't speak"
In" Court also. complimented District |
Attorney Clarke on obtaining TWO con-
vic'ions against the kidnappers within
two weeks. saving that even English JUS
tic. was no quicker.
PaftsnZa and the Kappa woman will 1
be sentencsSi next TtI.sday The maxi
mum rena.ty for kidnapping il ffty
years and Judge Fawcett has lnrinatei
hat he intends 10 deal very sternly with
hose Ca...S