New-York tribune., 1921-06-12
Discovery Made as Mother
Prays at Shrine and Be-
lieyes Her Child Has
Been Recovered Alive
Lad Slain ON Land.
Bruises Indicate
Corpse of Kidnap Victim
Floats 10 Shore Near
Nyack; Long in Water

Giuseppe Varotta, the five-year-old
boy, who was kidnaped May "a from
IN front of his parents home. 3S4 East
thirteenth Street, was found dead
Yesterday. The discovery OF his body
vas a startling verifcation of threats
which had been made to his father as
recently as last Monday by letter that
his boys body would be found floating
In the river.
It was within the limits of tide flow
On the shore of the Hudson at Pier
mont, n. Y, that the body was found,
on a promortory known as Piermont
Pier which is the southern limit of
the Tappan Zee. Because of the con-
dition of the body, which had been in
the water for some time, Coroner E
C. Flenders issued burial permit and
II was inferred at once in Oak Hill
Cemetery, Nyack.
Body To Be Disinterred To-day
Salvatore Varotta, the boys father.
had no doubt whatever, however. after
examining the clothing that was on the
body, that it was that of his son. The
body will be disinterred to-day. Va
rotta spent the night at Nyack to be
present at the eXhumation. Those who
saw the body said that it was that of a
child who had died struggling either
against drowning or against an attack.
Marks on the body led some to believe
that the latter was the case and that
the boy had been killed before being
flung into the river.
In total ignorance of the fatal ter
mination of her husbands quest or
even that the boy found at Piermont
was dead, Mrs. Yarotta spent most of
the night on her knees before candles
which fiickered on her mantel in honor
Of the saints. Her husband had not
dared to tell her of his fears. She
prayed that the boy found at Piermont
might be her boy and that he be
brought home to her soon
Eager tears of happiness which weeks
OF alternating hope and disappointment
had failed to exhaust welled in the
eyes of Giuseppe's mother as she knelt
i in prayer. She knew, she said, that at
last her boy had been found. They
had told her of the clothing worn by
the boy at Piermont and it was the
clothing of her Giuseppe. There was
the sailor blouse with it's blue collar
and cuffs, the khaki trousers, the
brown laced shoes that had ben half
soled, the brown stockings and-dear-
est OF all-the little red garters which
she had found time to delight Giuseppe
by making in spite of the demands
made upon her time by housework and
the sewing that must be done before the
new baby came.
The saints were good to her, said
Mrs. Farotta. All her trouble was
over now and soon would be as if it
never had been. Hundreds of BOYS
might have worn sailor bouses with
blue collars and cuffs, khaki trousers,
brown stockings and even half-soled
shoes, but who but Giuseppe had such
red garters?
:, At every footstep on the stairs Mrs.
Yarotta half rose to start for t<p. door.
AZ any moment, she felt, that door
night open and Giuseppe ride in upon
MS fathers shoulder as he so often
used to do when ne had gone to the
corner to meet his father.
Policeman Joins in Grief
Patrolman Brady, who has been sta
toned at the Varotta home ever since
the trap was sprung there in which five
alleged Black Handlers were caught
shook his head sadly every time the
eager, lifting tones OF the woman
%ltnn came to his ears.
us sad" said Patrolman Brady,
terrible sad, but what could be done
lsas no use TO be telling her the lad
vas dead until we knew for sure twas
hsrs' h.' And it may not be, it may not
That phrase-'it may not be. it NAV
NOT be- was on the lips of Patrolman
1fady many time last night during
.he vigil in which he warned all conner
against giving Mrs. Varotta a hint that
sne ooy at Piermont was dead. In it's
10y II was a prayer no less sincere
.ah Laah those which were being offered
'sIore the Pickering candles.
detectives Trazza, Festa and Appel
accompanied Varotta to the undertak-
;ng rooms of Raymond F. Bohr e. Co.
n ~ Nyack, where the clothes taken from,
me body found by the river still re-
NAMED
Father Identifies Clothing
var6tta picked UP a sailor blouse
sManed by water and faded by the sun
ous still showing the blue collar and
Iahs u and the chevron on the sleeve
ne erumpled it fiercely in his hands
ana crushed it to his lips.
mat is my boy" ne whispered.
30 with every small garment, even
tne garters of faded scarlet, in
S.fich the stitches of Mrs. Varotta
snowed brilliantly because the silk she
,aao, used had not faded. Each one the
tFs'nef seized, embraced and kissed
Nsen time he whispered family:
ul.t Is my boy"
When he had seen them all Varotta
sanS into chair and bowed his head
" ms hands. He was in q stupor OF
e.hef' stunned by the sudden confirma-
,1Oh Of the fears which had houndec
'''a Cay and night since his boy van
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