The evening world., 1912-03-20
KIDNAPPED BOY
tpARENTS THOUGHT
! BURIED |SF0UND
Antonio Malfetti, Stolen Here
Three Years Ago, Turns Up
In Denver.
BODY IDENTIFIED AS HIS.
Mas Clad in Part of Child'S
Clothing Claimed and Given
Funeral.
IDENTIFIED AS HIS.

The hsppaest family In New York TO-
t6ay was he Mal.ctfia For their son.
Antonio. who was stolen three years ago,
WHOM he was seven years old and whose
head body Mrs. Maifetu thought she
Recognised In one that was taken from
she East River at the foot Of Warren
ts,reet. Brookiyn. has been discovered
alive In Denver. Is on his way 70 New
York and his mother. The story OF the
kidnappang and the nnding Of the boy
Seahs like q chapter from n novel.
Little Antonio disappeared March II.
hsos. After q frantic search the Nal.
festis were asked, a few weeks later. to
20 10 the Moraue and Identify a boy
who had been drowned. They could not
Yell positively whether or not II was the
missing one. on account OF the n
zion Of the body. but-and here's the
ktranee psrt-the body IN the Aorgne
han parts OF Anton!o's clothing on II.
10 they buried d. and returned 10 their
lone. No. ~ East Thirty-second street.
bNveF RUINEo PROSPEROUS
PATheR'o DuoiNGeS.
Al that time the father. Alfredo Nal.
letti, had a grocery store and was
prosperlng. His grief was 10 great that
Ne neglected business and lost The store
knA everything he had saved n be-
came q pedicr. selling fruit and veget-
sbies from door to dore. The mother
Aid not AXE the death 81 much to
heart From the beginning something
told her that her son was alive ana
would return some day. She could not
expiain why. she Just thought 30 and
that val enough.
Then. too. h remembered that Raph.
bel Capiiardi and Nicola Fiore. who
lived N tho same house. had left mys-
tssiously at dawn on the day the boy
A.ssppearsd md were swallowed up In
the millions who shift about In New
York. CApilardi and the Fiors woman
bad ~worshipped little Antonio. asking
that ne be allowed TO stay with them.
They bought him many pretty things
and took a. much interest In him a. II
IL were their own child. Why had they
gone teen and never bid the little fell
low sooaby! 30 Mrs. Naifstti believed
they had stolen the BOY and lived IN
hops Of getting him back some day.
coy NEMEMODRe REAL NAME
AND oiv4s CLUE.
Last Decsmber Q letter was received
~ Mrs. Maifstti from Domsnioo Axnsto
Ia Denver. saying that . boy ten year.
OLE was living In Ensiswood. COL. undsI
the nAms of Giuseppe OApiiasdi. TIT
tstksr went on to say that che boy Do
clased his true name wal MAjfetu an<
hAA told the writer how he was stolen
Svtn6 the correct address u hlo parents
fhs Nalfettis tola the police and waited
Noaths passsd and 90 answer cams
Meanwhile, In Denver. Detective potsG
10 haA been busy freeing the move
tpeats oe capilardi
Yesterday came he .sws b. tassrapI
thsA Dstsecwe Potest5e W. On ~ W,
-. - osS.sRes csssi.si y,
8 n aetksr. 4 ~ As q nish
- . ssoortss eaneA q Ne - Dae
3nBy|gecend strese Ths 1eaifettI
wsFs I'll IN osd. but 0naIv - doc
- 1peueo BY . 90 u M 0aafett
WIEN 10 AsAsd ne y0uaSse tgothsr ha
6esa found he ran through ~ houst
aheot1ng sAA afeulnG ne aamiiy. Nh
90 into he kitehsa N nisht As<hsl
GDseoAls0I TAsa shs began 70 orr Wit
3oveul eobs. "ADtoalA Mo Ha@bin
lee a~oome tack" And che san - 70
- Uaghbsrs che giad nsws. The asigt
teEu. esing ~ uAvsrssA In the vays q
NV York AnA otill interested n "a
4ys end eeeFovs Of otAerad Y1pt an
ro5oiced w1A her. tosih6 tkAf slss
daddy 70 6eaf the woadsrfui SER.
AuorHeNV hgANT TOLD hG1
CHILD WAo ALIVE.
n knew he Wa not dad" said Mr.,
Naifetti. 81 knsw Il all the time. III
4kthsr thought he was dead. but I. III