New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-30
ANOTHER BOY KIDNAPPED
Letters Demanding Money Come
Soon After Child Disappears.
MUTILATION is THREATENED
Handwriting in Both Elizabeth
Street Gases the Same, and
Police Seek One Gang.

The mothers and fathers In the Siciliar
quarter of Elizabeth street are keeping
watchful eve on their children. for 1t be-
came known yesterday that another boy
had been spirited away by the Black '''"'
and money demanded for his ransom
Similar to the disappearance o. Nirocnzo
ISABELLA. seven years old, as told yesterday
I'm The Tribune. is that OF Pietro Quarth-
raro four years old, of No. li9 Elizabeth
street. a few doors from wnere niue '"-
cenzo lived.
II is week ago since Pietro disappcarei l.
but in fear that they might be viStcd py
the bomb form of revenge If they maze
their sorrow known 10 the police OF ln"'
their boy might be murdered by MS yep
tors, the parents kept the secret % 'helh-
selves hoping to get the boy back aIte'
the manner of their own people without 'ie
aid of the American police But when me!
learned that their neighbor also had lost
hoy and could not get him back, their
b.orts failed them. So they went to Head
quarters yesterday and told their story
On August q Pietro and his sister Gussie,
who is eleven years old, and baby broth
or were playing in front of the home. The
.1i,t,o mother" had been told not to leave
oitber of the younger children alone for q
moment. but when the baby began TO cry
she ran into the house with him. When
she came back, after leaving the baby
with her mother. little Pietro was gone.
A quiet search was made of the neigh
borhod with the assistance OF close rela-
lives. hut no clew could be discovered OF
the missing hoy. Then, the following day
the dreaded explanation came. II was a
Black Hand letter. with the skull anu
crossbones I'm red. demanding sl,00 for the
return of the missing child. 1t contained
the usual threats of death or mutlaton Il
the demand was not met promptly since
that first letter five others have been re-
ceived by the parents who say that they
cannot raise the $1,000 needed 10 save ;Aelr
boy.
When these letters were compared by the
police with those sent 10 the father'ot Nln-
cenzo ISABELLA. they. were found 10 he iden-
teal There is no doubt that the same band
Of kidnappers have both Of the children in
hiding. Leonardo Quartararo father Of
the second child TO he reported missing, Is
a fish pedler, VINO has managed 10 nat
by little money. Although he tried II
keep this a secret. his thrift and hardwork-
ing ways evidently have been watched.
The present police regime affects so dis
believe all tales Of the Black Hanl ac-
tivities. There is no such thing. iney say
although II is not many months since VIII
lam J. Flynn, while Second Deputy Police
Commissioner not only demonstrated that
there was a band If Italian criminals work
ing together. after the manner of the Mana
and Camorra in Italy, but also put many
of them behind the bars. While with the
government he broke M their counterfeit
ing activities and while with the police le
nut an effective stop 70 the kidnapping
operations by recovering without ransom
the children they had stolen and by send
ing the kidnappers themselves 70 Jail.
Flynn had an Italian squad 10 nelp him
But that is not considered necessary at
HEADQUARTERS these days. although the Itat
ian mothers and fathers say that their chill
dren are not safe since the squad was aool
ished.