New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-02
Police Arrest Nine Men
and Women After Ran
som of LOngo Boy.
FIND MARKED BILLS
OF FATHERS $500
lad Leads Detectives to Room
Where He We HorSewhipped
Another Boy ConfesseS.

In the arrest yesterday OF ten l'"'-
fans. alleged 20 be the blachma''ei
ubo for months have torrorlzed inc
Italian colony Of this city, the ponce
believe they have ended series OF
lidnanninc crimes which had contlu ,.
unchecked for almost year l"r
round.up of the gang followed the re-
tnrn Of little Frank LOngo. the son o
y nrosperous baker Of 1870 bleecKer ST.
TO his parents. ...-, ,,,o,. h.,
The voungster was spirited away o[
bis cantors from the neighborhood OF
Hudson and Grove SITS. May To- "i,N
foIlovinp his disappearance demands
for ransom were made on his rather
through anonymous letters,
Yesterday morning a thick set neaN-
;l,- mustached man entered the BAKERY
and after noddng to Mr. Longo plSHeu
IN a package containing s'OO wiz ~.
the latter laid on the counter. IeI
hours later the missing boy, retuI n .tO
home. and the story he told lea 10 '''
capture of the gang.
Nine men and one woman were al
,csted. most of them in some way con
rected with the bakery business ne
nolire think revenge, as well as oIacA-
nail was a motive for the kidnapping
zach was held in $500 bail for eN-
animation Tuesday. Detectives WORK
ing on the case say they VIII De aoie
Nv that time TO implicate the gang IN
5be Kidnapping Of Joseph Di flora, VINO
disappeared May u, 1912, from ms
>home at 1875 West Houston ST.
Boy Leads Detectives.
The how had barely returned to the
bakery when his father piled hum with
Sousstions He sent for detectives I'M
s,,ediatelv. and they and Frank went IN
F.oarcb of the house where he had been
'Lent II had a wooden stoop, the boy
Ssid and he would recognize 1t II ne
lxsy Il He remembered, too, that IL
stood near the Williamsburg Bridge,
,and that the man who had first decoyeu
him had taken him away on sIIee
car with side doors. The Spring ST
line is the only one with the new Slyle
cars in that part Of the city ana thS
detectives within an hour had taken
,+be how to the neighborhood, where ne
-no;nted out the house at SO Goerck 81:
"They took me to q room upstairs
.rried the bow, land said ! couldn't go
'near the window or they'd horsewhlp
me. and they hit me with 1t fe"
In the house at SO Goerck st. big
Aorsevbip was found. but the fiat was
empty. The family had moved the nlght
before. the detectives were told; that
they had shifted their belongings IN
wagon drawn by q white horse.
From this clew they found the owner
of the wagon, who remembered taxing
the family to 237 Az. B.. Thus Vin,,
cenzo Acenoe. his wife Katerina ana
five children were found. Inc parents
were arrested at noon, after Joseph,
rho eldest child, had told the detectives
that he had guarded Frank with
horsewhip.
Round Up Big Gang.
Frank Macaluso, the leader Of the
gang and the man TO whom Longo mad
paid the 500. was arrested in the
morning at his grocery store. 364 East
18TH 81 He was identified by Longo
and the Italian detectives VINO mad
been in the store at the time.
The seven others arrested were Pas
ouale Nilone and his brother Colorado,
OF 242 East 18th St; Nicolo Rltolo, OF
33 Bedford st; Nunzio Paladino, OF 3
Coerck St; Antonio Daniot, of 2l67
Ccney Island av.. Brooklyn; Achlllio
La Rosa. of 255 Elizabeth St, and An
tonic Sirogusa, merchant, Of 81 East
18th st.
In the capture Of the Milone broth
.rrs the detectives, under Captain Tun-
ney, entered PAP East 18th st. by front
aud rear. some clambering up the fire
escape and others using the stairs. In
the room where the men slept were
found a complete kit Of burglars tools
and packages Of horse poison.
On Nicolo Ritolo was found $500 in
bills, some Of them those given to
Mscaluso BY Longo. These had been
marked ty the detectives. Marked bills
we're also found on the Milone brothers.