New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-01
FOLLOW GIRL TO
DRUG Den; SEIZE 5
Police Find a Kidnapped
Young Woman - Get
CleWs TO 3 Offers.

Lieutenant Hearle, OF the East l04'h
ST. police station. and his two men,
Detectives Quaine and Caputo. got a
tip last night that the Little Girl IN
White would be at l05th ST. and Ley
ington av.. at about I o'clock. FOR
several weeks they have been looking
for her as the vendor of most OF the
cocaine and heroin sold in the neiga
borhood.
They went TO the corner. and soon
after had traced the Little Nrirl IN
White" to a house, where they arrested
her three men companions who sup
piled her with tie stuff and also
struck clew that solved the mystery
of a missing girl, led to the arrest q
two more men on 2 charge of abduc-
ton and points TO the finding Of stu
two other missing girls.
Those arrested on the charge of SELL
ing or having cocaine were the Little
Girl in White" who is Marie Reilly,
nineteen years old. of ia East l05th
St: Thomas Brancato. of 334 East 102d
St; John Durante, of 393 East l03 /
st.. and Caesar Ruffllo, of 1893 Third
az.
The two men arrested on the abduc-
ton charge were John Gozzola. of 81?
East l06th ST., and Joseph Bcrtucci, Of
313 East 106th st.
The girl who became the complainant
against them under the protection Of
the police is Florence La Sale. sales
girl Of 909 Third av.. for whom gen
eral alarm was sent out on SUNDAY.
She told the police that at the time she
fell in with the man who abducted her
she was accompanied by Helen Ger
ritv. of 63d st. and Third av., and a
girl whom she knew only as Grace. for
both Of whom there has been search
since Sunday.
As Lieutenant Haerle and his two
men stood waiting for the Little Cir!
i'm White" they saw her tripping along
the street until she came to ia East
lG5th St, where she turned IN. shortly
after along came Brancato and Ruffillo,
who also entered.
They still waited. and third man,
from the house next door, went in.
Then Lieutenant Hacrle sent Detective
Caputo in to reconnoitre. Caputo
knocked at a door, and gruff voice
asked him who was there.
"That's al right" he said in his
suavcst tones. ITS Joe, and want
some Of the stuff"
The door was opened, and Caputo
jumped in, followed by Haerle and
Ouaine. They found Marie Reilly,
Erancato, Durante and Rutbllo within,
and ordered them TO stand as they
were. REffillo was caught in the act
Of weighing out 25-cent decks of CO.
csine. while the others were mixing
heroin with adulterants.
lieutenant Haerle made Durante take
the officers into his home next door
There was the La Sale girl, with Coz
cola and Bertucci. At first she refused
to give her name, but finally Drche
down and confessed.
At the station house Florence told
the Lieutenant how she. with the Ger
rity girl and Grace went 10 North
Beach last Sunday, where they met
three Italians. After dancing with
them. she said, they separated, and she
was lure to the house at ZIG East
1O5th ST., by John Gozzola. He thrust
her into a room, she said, and locked
the door, and threatened to Kill her
when she screamed and tried to get out
After she had stopped struggling he
brought the other two men to the
room, she said. She was held as a ma
terial witness in the abduction charge.
Marie Reilly toll the police that she
sold cocaine and heroine in -9-ceht
decks. receiving five cents commission
on each sale for herself. She showed
the police marriage license, .akea OUT
June by Brancato, who, she SAID, had
promised TO marry her. A saoe box
fulI OF drug was seized as evidence.