Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-08-23
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Police Break UP Gang and
Make Twelve Arrests
Three Already Convicted
and in Prison.
BY Carlton Ten Eyck.


New York, Aug. 22.-Kidnaping is
now mighty unpopular profession in
Manhattan. 1t has become SO within
the past few weeks. In that time
raid engineered by a member of tho
district attorneys office has resulted in
the arrest Of a Dozen three of whom
have already been sent to prison, ono
for 20, another for 80 and the third for
so years. The remaining nine are
awaiting trial.
The police now believe they have
broken up a gang that has existed in
New York for years, plying the kidnap-
ing traffic on a business basis. The
members of the gang, they say, were
on salary while the brains" of the
organization-the real leader-got one
half of the money realized from hold
ing little boys and girls captive. Pas
quale Milon, who was sentenced to so
years in Sing Sing, according to the
police, had organized the niftiest little
kidnapping band that ever existed. Pas
quale, they declare, had made of kid
naping an art and had made himself an
artist-the best in his line.
There were three distinct and sep
arate departments in Milon's organiza-
ton. He was the brains" of the bust
ness and to him went one-half of tho
proceeds. The other half was used to
pay the salaries of his various aides.
Million never mixed in the work himself.
He did the thinking and hired less
brainy persons to do the real work
the rough stuff. He had three men
on his pay roll as the real kidnapers.
After Milon had picked out some boy
or girl whose parents were well off, he
oo1 =
them instructions for kidnapping the
victim. They were told how to get her
and where to take her.
The third department of Milon's or
ganization consisted usually of a man
and woman who kept the kidnapped
child while Milon was seeking money
for its recovery. Milon never allowed
this couple to see him. He had one of
his lieutenant's visit them and arrange
for keeping the child and paying them
for its keep. He figured, the police
think, that he reduced the chances of
capture in case anything went wrong
by not allowing the persons who held
the child to know whom he was.
Milon was bitterly scored by the
judge who sentenced him to Sing Sing.
II wish l could give you greater pun
ishment" he said.1 I'm sentencing you
to 80 years I am imposing the maxi
mum penalty provided by the law. You
deserve more than that for you wrote
letters to the parents of these children
whom you had kidnapped telling them
you We're going to dismember the chill
dren If they didn't give you money. l
guess you would have done 1t, too. You
also said you would kill them II they
notified the police AS a revolver was
found in your possession l guess you
intended to do that, too"
New York police have been busy in
the past few weeks running down two
or three Joints" that did a great bust
ness in dope. In q fashionable dis
trict on the upper west side they raid
ed a fiat which they declare wealthy
dope fiends"-persons addicted to the
use of cocaine and morphine were pat
ronized extensively. At the time
it was raided only one person was
there. She was the wife of a well
known Wall Street broker but the
police refused to divulge her name.
Just who operated the place, the
police were unable to learn. They as
sert that 1t was patronized by dozen
or more persons, all very wealthy, and
they think that someone had been em-
ployed to run it for them
Girls are much in demand In New
York these days. With the calling
home of hundreds of walters who we're
reservists in foreign armies now at
war, scores of vacancies In that line
have to be met. American walters
good ones-are few and a great many
cafe owners are for the first time en-
ploying mattresses.
Models are scarce too. this year, and
a girl doesn't have to be perfect 36"
to get a Job in the big clothing stores.
The proprietors are easier satisfied this
year than they have been in years past
because they say that models of any
kind are mighty hard to find. Many
blame the movies" for the scarcity of
models. They say the girls are flock
ing to the cinema studios preferring to
get chance to work there as extras"
rather than to take regular positions as
models