New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-29
BLACK HAND REVIVAL
Disappearance of italian Boy
Thought To Be Its Work.
MISSING SINCE JULY 81
Father Has Received Five Let.
ters, Each of Which De-
manded $4,000 Ransom.

The Black Hand artists. who were pretty
effectually quleted by William j.. Flynn
when he was the Second Deputy Police
Commissioner and at the head Of the de
tective bureau. nave begun 10 think ;hdt
there is a good chance for than to become
active again. one Cf the first Victims II
! VinCenzo ISABELLA, who for the last m0h'hS
has been quietly searching for his seven
! year-old son Vincenzo. hoping he couii se'
the boy back without having TO give up
$1,000
| II may be that Sabella's countfFihc"
I know something particular about ms
sources but 40 one not f2miha. WIN
| .ba eocrets nf the ISABELLA family WouIu
over think that Nlnceazo c"uiu
! IN ooo ar any considerable part Cl thdt sum
! Of money He Is part proprietor of Us evil
smelling n store as there is In all EHIa-
| - .,rao, I, is at No. 165. aul IL as
dirty as II smells According to his story
his countrymen think that NAL VINO can
no the owner of all that odor, or for some
other reason, must be worth at least 30
900 and have stolen his boy and are holc-
ing him for ransom.
The boy disappeared on July 81, when he
their home in Broome street. just around the
corner from the store. to his father ; p'doe
of business. Mrs. ISABELLA was IN the apart
ment on that day with little Nincenzo anu
his sister Marie. nine years OLD. AI' %
bella had dressed TO go 10 the store ana
told Marie TO dress her little brotaer ana
send him after her Marie followed IN
structions and started little Nincenzo out
and that was the last seen OF him by any
member Of his family.
The mother waited in the store for two
or three hours for the boy, and then went
home 10 look for him. AS he was not al
home she thought he might have stayed OUT
il, the street TO play with some OF the
MANY other little fellows Of the neighoor-
hood. and did not worry, but when her
husband came home that night and said ne
had seen nothing of the boy the mother
became frightened. The father made a
search of the neighborhood and among all
his friends and relatives. but no one hdu
Seen little Vincenzo. Late at night he
learned that early in the day the lttie chdP
had been seen with two tall boys going
toward Third avenue. That was all the
clew he could get.
The father went to the Mulberry street
roitce e,atio, early in the evening and re-
ported his son as missing. The BOY name
u,as mt on the list of missing children. Dut
"a tho father did not at that time think Oh
KIDNAPPING there was no especla! sea- -"
made for the child. 1t was taken loi
granted that in the course OF time ne "ou'N
turn up at some police station and be re-
turned 10 his parents, as usually happens
IN such cases. The father also sent worn
10 the Chidren's Society. but nothlhs I'd"
been heard of his son there
ISABELLA did not tell his wife that nlsh'
that he had heard of their boys haVihs
been seen with two bigger boys eolns
toward Third avenue. and the next morn
ine, when he received a letter signed Win
9 skull and cross bones and saying tha'
tho NaNa demanded $4,000 for the return
Of his son he kept this too from his wife
-Four more letters. each demanding Slo'Wo'
fo1,owed the first one. while ISABELLA kept
IN a quiet search for his son.
Mrs ISABELLA meanwhile was becoming
almost constantly hysterical over the lose
If the boy. There were five children, but
Nincenzo was the only son. SapeId
thinks that is why he was chosen as the
victim Of the kidnappers. He bcIeNes
that. as is so often the case, his son was
taken by poor relatives, who hope TO MAKE
some easy money by returning the boy ana
he has kept away from the police Tor rear
that the kidnappers might become fright
cned and do some harm TO little Nincenzo.
Mrs. ISABELLA became so hysterical yes
terday. however, that ISABELLA went TO 70
lice headquarters and asked for help IN
finding his son. The police at once De-
came busy on a search Of all the haunts
Of the Black Hand artists, but as yet nave
no trace of the missing boy.