The New York herald., 1921-06-13
FATHER IDENTIFIES
BODY OF KIDNAPPED
Child BY HIS TEETH
NarOtta Told Boy Was Not
Murdered Before Being
Thrown in Hudson.
WEEPS OVER CORPSE
Cries Out That if He Had
Had Money Little One
Slight Not Have Died.
BREAKS NEWS TO WIFE
Five More Are Detained, but
Police Have Not Reached
Bottom of Plot.

Salvatore Varotta removed yester-
day whatever doubt the authorities had
that the body Of the boy found in the
Hudson River Saturday at Piermont,
N. Y, near Nyack, was that of his
five-year-old SOD, Giuseppi who was
kidnapped three weeks ago from his
home. $50 East Thirteenth street. A
hole between a blackened tooth and
its perfect neighbor in the front Of
the boys mouth made the identifica-
ton certain.
While Varotta was scanning the
body in Raymond Bohr's morgue in
Nyack the detectives in New York
were subtecting three men arrested
yesterday morning. but not yet
charged with connection with the case.
to an examination that left both the
prisoners and the policemen exhausted
In the meantime other detectives re-
newed their attack upon the five sullen
Italians who were arrested at the
Varotta nome June g. while demanding
ransom for the child. The three ar
rested yesterday morning are Saliva
tore Troia, GA East Fourteenth street;
Vincenzo Battaglia, same address, and
Giuseppi PalHstro. 2S4 Avenue A. The
detectives say that each Of the men
possessed firearms. Magistrate Sweet
zer held them In $4,000 bail each on
charges Of violating the. Sullivan law.
AS a result OF their prolonged ex-
animation of the Ave men arrested
June 3 Detectives Sesta and Sieco OF
the Italian squad took to Police Head
quarters a man they believe to be
Tony Susclli at his home. $50 East
Thirteenth street. last night. Suscilli
Is chauffeur, as is Varotta With
him to Police Headquarters the de-
tectives took batch OF letters, tele-
grams and other papers they found in
his room.
Got Tip From Suspects.
They held him for examination. de-
spite the fact he raved denials at first
| and then lapsed into stolid calm. re-
| fusing to reply to any question. He was
locked up for the night.
Later a second neighbor Of the Va
rottas was taken down 10 headquarters.
He was described as Joseph Margolio,
| II. a printer. OF 34S East Thirteenth
street. Detective Fiaschetti said he
would be taken before Assistant District
Attorney Dineen to-day.
There are now in the hands Of the
police ten men who are expected to show
the way to a solution of the mystery.
Giuseppi varotta was not killed be-
fore being thrown into the river. This,
according to Assistant District Attorney
Dineen. merely adds - the difficulties
that face the police. There is no way OF
knowing whether the boy was thrown
into the water, whether he was released
| by his captors and fell into the river
while running away or whether he es-
capped and met the same sort of fate.
DR.. Otto H. Schultze, medical assistant
TO District Attorney Swami, performed
the autopsy yesterday and reported that
there was no indication OF strangulation.
He said there were no fractures and no
cuts or bruises that were not gained
when the body came into contact with
driftwood and shoals in the river. But
to make certain. the doctor took the
brain and the lungs to the laboratories
at Bellevue and will examine them for
poison to-day. Poisoned or not. the doc
| tor said. the boy drowned.
/ Police Certain of Murder.
The police say that the chance that
the boy was not murdered is 40 remote
as to be unworthy OF consideration.
They say they have no clue to when
the lad was taken to Rockand County
or whether he was merely carried up the
Hudson In a launch and then thrown
overheard. They add that this is the
frst kidnapping case in New York 10
end In murder. DR.. Schultze says that
II Is hardly possible to state how long
the boy has been dead. He says that
his guess would be a week. or even less.
/ When Salvatore varotta gave the
police the letter In which his and their
lives were threatened by the writer's,
who demanded that the Ave men ar
| rested June be released, he turned
! over yet another letter. This second
letter conveyed the news that the men
who had his son had relented; that
they no longer demanded $1,000. nor
even s2.500.
I'VE need a Buick. We want the
price OF a Buick" the letter read. Then
II went on to say, according to varotta,
that all he needed TO do was to produce
the price Of the desired motor car and
his boy would walk home"
And I have not dollar now" said
Varotta. The men who came for the
money week ago come for $500. part
OF which was my savings and part I
borrowed. Now the police have that,
and I am with no money at all. tell
the undertaken who is bringing home
the body OF Giuseppi that I have no
money. He says II Is all right. that
later / can pay. And they want the
money for an automobile for my boy
a Buick. Not even a Ford could I
have given them"
The letter, not mailed. but slipped be-
meath the door Of the varotta fiat. bsde