The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-02

NiNtS WIN nave DftH ElNltlE All their time
to running down the kidnappers since
Frank failed to come home last May.
Capt. Tunney was In charge of them
and his squad included Detectives Bottle.
Moses. Cavone, Oliver. DE Clio, Trabucci
and Bowling They did not dare grab
Macalusso as he left the shop with the
money for fear as sometimes happens
the boy would be made away with in re-
venge.
The night OF the day Frank was enticed
away his father received a letter, signed
with the usual "black hand" in which
he was told that unless he paid $4,000
ransom his boys body would he sent
home by parcel post"
Half a dozen letters came at intervals
besides the one the boy wrote himself
Your boy Is crying for you. and II
you don't pay the $4,000 soon he will
cease to cry-Black Hand" was the way
on" letter ran. The others were along the
same lines.
Sclian kldnappers. the Italian detcc-
tives say. always get their relatives to
spread the word along In the right direc-
ton. so that finally the parents being
blackmalled will learn that so and so
knows somebody else who knows still
another man who can get TO the kid
nappers. Franks father first of all did
what few of his countrymen will do-he
went to Police Headquarters the minute
he received the first letter on the night
of May 10.
The original word OF mouth message
from the gang finally got TO Franks
father In the form OF direction to con-
suit with Antonio Sirogusa. wholesale
flower dealer of 391 East Twelfth street
Franks father. on the instructions OF the
detectives. sought Sirogusa who. the
father and police say. sent him to Maca-
lusso.
Capt Tunney decided therefore that IL
would be best for Franks father to pay
the 5000. which he had told Macalusso
was all he could raise. and thus recover
the boy before he was harmed, the detec-
tives in the meantime keeping a close
watch on the suspects. with the hope of
gathering the whole band.
Guides Detective to House.
The minute Frank came in Tuesday
night with his story Of the side door car.
the big iron bridge" and the house with
"A wooden s,oop', the detectives bundled
the sleepy boy into an automobile and
followed the only other side door cross
town line in the neighborhood.
They went east OH Spring street until
Frank began 10 recognize the Williams
burg Bridge and the general neigCbor-
hood of his long captivity. Finally. with
an excited There it is" he pointed to a
house with "A wooden stoop at SO GoercS
I u' lbp llpOI was Ntfuil ana
there was nothing there except the horse
whip which Frank remembered so wildly
From neighbors the detectives learned
that the family on tn etop floor had moved
their belongings away few hours before
That "A white horse drawing moving
van had departed with their furniture was
all that Capt. Tunney and his men could
learn about their departure. BY cruising
around among truckmen in the neighbor-
hood the detectives finally found n man at
Twelfth street aud Avenue \ who told
them he had carted the furniture to
fiat on the third floor of 237 Avenue Il
IT was long after dawn yesterday morn
ing before thu detectives had located this
address when they entered the Nat they
found the woman Frank says had charge
of him i'm the room with the big Whips
She is Mrs. Catherine Ac"eno with her
We're little Joe and her other children. but
her husband. Nmcenao, WAS not ut home
He entered the Hat at O'Clock yes
torday morning The husband submitted
"a arrest wi,hout resisting and he and
'is wi'c ana the children were taken
away, the children to the Childrens so
,i,;" rooms and The parents 40 Ha.,dqulr-