The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-14
KIDNAPPER HELD FOR ATTACK ON
 LITTLE VICTIM Police Apprehend Laborer Who Snatched Six Years
 Old Child Into Jitney. OTHERS SOUGHT FOR
 CRIMINAL OUTRAGE Little School Girl Under Physicians Care Others
 Are Sought.

I The return: home of six-years-o Jo- sephine Pag1iacouto of 50 Columbus place, shortly after daybreak this
 morning, after a sensational kidnap- ping episode in which a, jitney bus figured, was followed in city court to- | day by the .remanding of Antonio Dis ti1lio,@ a Iaborer, 36 years old, in bail 4of $1,00O on a charge brought as g. result of the physical condition of the little girl. k
 Distil1io, who lives at 22e North Washington avenue, is held for as saulting the little school girl The neighborhood is wrought to a pitch of frenzied indignation as result of the tots experience, and mothers are un- willing to let children wander unac- companied by their elders, in the be- lief that others who figured in the crime are still at large
 According to the statements made by Josephine and partially confirmed in a statement made by Distill1o to the police the little child has probably suffered most cruelty.
 DistiI1fo claims as excuse that he was too drunk to know what he did, and that he woke up upon a strangers steps with the dew failing upon him and the little child who was suffering from exposure. ,E
 The child was taken into a jitney, near the corner of Main and Grand streets, at about 5:SO yesterday after noon. The prisoner attempts to deny that he knew the other. persons in the car, or even the name of the jttney driver. The police are securing the city in an effort to locate them
 The child in statements made to Captain of Detectives George Arnold and to Surgeon Weldon of the emer- ency hospital wnoswas called to treat her said she was taken into the woods and attacked.
 .r1on+,lra- ca,oe +Iro,xeH, +11a ioirt ef ; forts of the Pagiiacouto family, living at 50 Columbus place, and Policemen James Glennon and NEcPadden. who were watching the vicinity of the girls home
 Distillio returned home with the girl at 5sSo O clock, telling the family that he had found her wandering the. streets. He was invited to sit down and drink a cup of soffee- While he was thus engaged the'police and mem bers Of the girls family consulted and DistiIIio was placed under arrest.
 Following the reported Kidnapping yesterday the neighborhood of 50 Co., 1unnbus place was in a panic. Mothers of other children believed that their offspring might be taken next and kept them well within doors. Jo- sephine was student at the Co1uHn- bus school, where she was considered one of the brightest children in the primary class.
 According to statements made by Distil1io today, yesterday was the an niversary Of his patron saint which he celebrated by drinking. He had treat ed many of his friends and purchased a big box of candy, which he took. around. to Josephine's home; where he drank with the family and gave the child candy. He made several trips to and from the home. The child, he said. followed him on each occasion.
 In the afternoon drink got the better of him, and at 5:SO he started for his brother-in-law's home on North Main street. He says that the girl had tagged after him and that he merely put her into the jitney to take her along. ~
 eewhen I got off the jitney was so drunk" said the prisoner, "I could not find my brothers home started to walk through the woods. do not know how long walked. At 2 a. m. I woke up and saw I was on the steps of a house. It was raining. The girl was very cold. took off my coat, and covered her up and took her on the veranda where it was dry. There I slept until or 5:30 and then I took her houne.'
 The police have ascertained that Dfstfllio is a. laborer, and has been in this country about a year.