New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-05
Boys Murder
Keeps Varotta
Out of a Job
Concerns Afraid 10 Employ
Stricken Father, Believing
Black Hand Vengeance
May Extend to Business
Family Now Faces Want
would Starve if 1t We're
Not for Service Bureau
at Bellevue He Asserts

Notoriety given to him in connection
with the murder of his -year-old
son, Giuseppe, whose body was found in
the Hudson River after the boy had
been kidnapped, has kept Salvatore Va
rotta out Of work for more than ten
weeks. He says employers refuse to
have him OH their pay roll because Of
fear that persons seeking revenge may
attack him where he works or use
bombs to blow him up.
Varotta has wife and three chill
dren, Adolfo, ten years old; John,
seven, and Giuseppe, few weeks old.
Ever since he quit his regular job on
May ID, the day his Giuseppe dis
appeared. in order to help the police
search for. the kdnapers, he has had to
depend on charity, it is said, to pay his
rent and to provide food for his family.
Varotta Loses Job
Two days after the boys body was
found Varotta returned to his old Job
as an expert automobile mechanic and
truck driver for a wholesale grocer at
Tenth Street and Sixth Avenue. He
was told that his services were no
longer needed. He soon found another
place, but when it was learned that he
was the father of the boy whose murder
had received so much attention in the
newspapers, he was dismissed.
1T is pity that because person
has suffered a misfortune he is
deprived of fair chance TO make liv-
ing" said Varotta Yesterday at his
home, 1914 East Thirteenth Street.
Had l been given the same space in
cess / had achieved l would have been
offered moro jobs than I could have
accepted. But because l have been
given SO much publicity in connection
with tragedy in which | and my wife
were only innocent sufferers l am told
that nobody wants me. The public
knows that one man has been convicted
of the murder and that four others are
awaiting trial. Knowing the revenge
full spirit Of Italians. employers fear
they may become involved in some vio-
lence which my boys murderers may
infict on me.
Eager to Leave City
IF I could get together enough
money / would move with my wife and
three remaining children to some other
clty where l cOuld get J0D. used
to earn $50 week with the grocery
house. For the last ten weeks I have
earned nothing. 1t is enough to make
me crazy. We would starve if it were
not for the service bureau of the
Bellevue Hospital, which pays sur rent
of SIT month and gives US something
to live on.
when I went back to my old job
they told me they would let me know
when they wanted me. OF course
never heard from them. l got anoth +
job.
A few days later the boss called me
in and said: Aren't you the
Varotta whose boy was murdered by
blackhand gang?' I told them the
truth. Then they said | had better
get out, as some Italians might blow
up their place in the hope of killing
me. Some people wonder how it is
that my boy was taken for ransom
when l have not got penny. I tell
them that the blackhand gang heard
of my obtaining little money by way
of damages for injury to my oldest
boy, but that money was spent long
ago.
Appeal Made for Work
81 would like to know whether in
this great country an honest, willing
man ought to be deprived of making a
/ living just because his son has been
murdered and whether there is not d
business concern which has enough
courage to employ such a man."
Roberto RafPaele, one of the five