The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-03-31
AnnasaIerri, IS; and Nicholas
Pececca, Her Sweetheart,
ln County Jail
FORCED ITO RUN AWAY
Parents Beat and Kicked Her
aldsTbreatened to Kill
Here She Declares

Romance Is ended for little Is
searIotd Anna salerri, dark-eyed
daughter Of sunny Sicily. Her
two weeks Of freedom have been
spsnt and she Is now to go
hack 70 her slum home in sixtieth
street. Brooklyn, where she will
once more be forced to cover I'M
der the furious hand of her tyran-
meal step-father.
Anna and her lover, Nicholas
peeecca, were arrested Monday at
Grant Town by Marion County au-
thortties, at the request of the
New York City police department,
andswere lodged in the county Jail
here. Representatives OF the
New York department. will serve
papers on Pececca, charging
abduction and take both him and
Anna back to face justice as It
IS meted out in the metropolitan
city
sittng on her little cot IN the
same cell with Dorothy Wolfe,
VINO y charged with stealing dia-
mond ring, pretty young Miss
salerr1 yesterday afternoon told
me sIory OF her1 tragic elopement
ana me events which forced her
70 nee from her nome with NICK
oaas Feceeea.
you blame me for running
aways asked the girl, with her
pink cheecks flushing pinker and
tne IRE OF INDICATION burning In
ner EYES: LOOK at my arms.
sne sala Daring them to the ell
BOWS see the cuts and scars
when my father and mother
MADE whens they were drunk and
pest me. Seelmy hands, here and
mere. wnere my mother bit me.
Annass arms still carried the
marks and bruises OF numerous
blows Gashes across her hands
pore mute witness OIL bites intlict-
egt she SAID, BY her mother. Two
ot her tingernatls had been BIT
ZEN ln5oagn ana the wounds were
NOT yet nealed.
calls Father Devil"
tather IS devil, cried
Anna he IS not my father at all
pns my step-tather ana has no
flsit Sto peat me. MY father,
VINO was good to me, died three
years ago, and since then l have
knoBn nothlng put beatlngs and
blows and curses.
Nv was hell lived in there.
NY father and mother would get
drum. every day and fight, and
tnens they would both beat me. My
motneE would get q knife to Kill
me but would run from the
mouse. once my father pointed a
gun az me and said. I will kill
You but ran away from him.
One night they threw me out OF
the house and had to sleep in
the cold street with nothing to
cover me.
went to a school and 1t was
hard for me for ! came to Amer
iea from Sicily when | was Z, My
teacher, Miss Perkins, liked me
and tried to help me. was in
"A class when ran away.
NV mother would go to the
school and curse Miss Perkins and
say y could not come any more,
btltaMiss Perkins would make her
SO away or she would have her
arrested. My mother said she
would Kill me II ! went on TO
school Miss Perkins told me to
come though, and l would not
stops
" step-tather is devil. He
does not work anywhere. l do
not know where he gets his money
Tor mother and him to get drunk
on would not do things they
wanted me to SO they cou.. get
money and they would beat me
20 make me. but would not.
Ny step-father Is named
George origlia. II you do not be-
heSe me what l say, ask any one
In Brooklyn what sort OF a man is
George origlia. They know him
md they will tell you. They say
he Is the worst man in Brooklyn
and I think he Is. My mother Is
like him and they both beat me.
pheys will tell you Of my mother,
TOO In Brooklyn, what she is like.
My father and my mother,
they lied to the police about me,
and they lied to the people who
wfttesthe italian Journal. In It
they said am only 10 years old,
hut I am Isl will be Is years
plds5o April 8. They say MCKEE
isS4 years old, but Nickie, he is
only q. They say l had no rea-
INTO run away, but they do not
saw fffeV said fhaV would kI1I ma