New-York tribune., 1919-06-09
Lost Baby Is
Found; 2 Held
AS Kidnappers
Woman in 13Oth Street
Hears Walls of Child and
Reports to Mother; Police
at Once Act on Clew

Six-weeks- old DIVA Arne Koskinen
was restored to his parents last night,
and their refusal, despite the per-
suasive efforts of the police, to identify
other infants as their own was vindi-
Gated by the arrest of woman and a
man charged with kidnapping DIVA.
The prisoners are Mrs. Carmela Mar
zano and Joseph di Nicola, of Ill East
13Oth Street. The police believe ma
ternal yearning inspired the kidnap-
ping.
There was no .hes;tancy displayed by
Arnc and Annie Koskinen when the
indubitable DIVA was offered for their
inspection. One glance, and the mother
sprang for the child with her arms
outstretched. DIVA gurgled in re-
sponse, then set up faint wailing at
the construction of the arms that en-
braced him.
Neighbor Told Her
Word that an unexplained baby had
appeared in the East 130th Street
house reached Mrs. Koskinen last
night at her home, 211 West 146th
Street. 1t came from a neighbor of
Mrs. Mariana, who said the woman's
husband had been killed in action in
France and that her grief for him was
intensified by the knowledge that she
would have no child to bear his name.
For more than q week, Mrs. Mar
ramos neighbor continued, the wailing
of a baby had come from the child
less home.
Mrs. Koskircn and her husband lost
no time in reporting the new clew to
the police. Lieutenant Enright, of the
East 126th Street police station, as
signed, without too much faith in the
story, two detectives to accompany the
couple to the East 130th Street house.
There the reunion and the arrests took
place. Mrs. Mariana is twentysix
years old. Di Nicola is twenty-five
years old and employed as a cutter.
He is accused of being Mrs. Marzano' s
accomplice.
Unable to Pay Ransom
The Koskinen baby vanished under
circumstances that appeared inexpli-
cable from the first, except upon the
supposition that some one with jeal-
Gus hunger for others children had
| followed Mrs. Koskinen upon her fate
full shopping excursion three weeks ago.
The Koskinens were humble folk.
They had no enemies. They were not
in position to pay ransom for their
child. The police worked upon the
theory that some child-hungry, perhaps
| demented, woman had walked off with
DIVA, as has happened before with
babies left unguarded in the street..
The same night that the Koskinen
child was reported missing a baby
about the same unidentifable age was
found in the railroad station at Long
Island City.
Convinced that they had found DIVA,
abandoned by his erratic captor, the
police summoned Mrs. Koskincn. One
look was enough to satisfy her that
the child was not DIVA. Later an in
fant was found in South Norwalk
Conn, whose general description cor
responded to that Mrs. Koskinen had
given of her child. The police were
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examine this new find with great care
and appeared only nalf-convinced at
Mrs. Koskinen's prompt reputation OF
the baby.
The identification last night was
rendered doubly certain to police
reasoning by the fact that the cloth
ing of tho baby found in the Eas,
130th Street house was similar to tha,
which DIVA Koskinen had worn wher
he started his mysterious journey.
Mrs. Mariana wept at surrenderine
the infant. She claimed it was he,
own. born May %, one day before DIVA
Koskinen vanished. She could not tell
the police the name of the physician
who attended her and the police de.
clared the vital statistics Of the city
did not record the birth of child al
that time to Mrs Mariana.