The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-21
GHETTO YOUNGSTER FOUND
 DEAD IN EAST SIDE BASEMENT
4-Year-0Id Son Of Tailor, Missing For Three Weeks, Discovered Under Dramatic Circumstances

NEW YORK. Nov. 2O.-A man came plunging up the steps from foul, unfrequented basement beneath a Suffolk street tailor shop on the lower East Side, his face greenish and his eyes staring with horror.
 "'rhe kid" he shouted to all Suf- folk street "The kidt The kidi He's down there, dead!"
 Within ten minutes Suffolk street was swarming with thousands of Ghetto folks in a welter of excite ment. "The kid" meant Irving Pick elny the 4-year- son of a poor garment maker All the East Side had been watching out for Irving for three weeks. They converged on the dirty block of Suffolk street where the man had emerged from the dark hole beneath the tailor shop, shout ing, The kid The kid"
 Push-cart peddlers wavered be- tween impulse and caution, then gave way to impulse and joined the wild scene. Within 1 , minutes it was nee essary to call out all the reserves of the nearest police station to disperse the crowd lest some be trampled in the crush.
 A woman tore away from the bor- der of the maelstrom and ran to the tenement where Samuel Pickelny and his wife were sitting, sad-eyed and worthless, before the remains of the breakfast herring.
 O O O
 Breaks News Abruptly.
 They've found him; they found the kid" she told them in a blast of ella tion at being there first with the news.
 Pickelny jumped up.
 "Dead?"
 But the woman was on her way spreading the news.
 They found the kid"
 Pickelny's uncertainty, the agony of three weeks, ended few minutes later when the police told him the boy was dead. Irving apparently had been enticed to the basement by a fiend and killed where his body was found, perhaps within the hour of his disappearance on October 26. The little boy appeared to have been suf- located
 "Oh. God! My boy! Thank God, he Is where no more harm can come to him"
 Pickelny sagged into a chair in the office of the medical examiner at the morgue after the ordeal of making the Identification. Utterly crushed had driven him and the boys mother nearly frantic for weeks, Pickelny was unable to move for a moment. Then he began clubbing his temples with his fists in frenzy of grief
 Oh, it's Irving. all right" he said. There's no doubt about it. 1 made the little coat foi him myself in my spare time. I made the pants. His mother made the blouse. My baby oh, my baby. He is safe now, but how he must have suffered"
 O O O  Searched Unceasingly.
 Cornelius Willemse detective cap tain and terror of the east side gangs, had devoted all his own time and had several of his detectives un- ceasingly for two weeks after the They had searched dozens of basements and had followed clues all over the city and to adjacent cities
 Captain Willemse, the man who caught Kid Dropper and a dozen mem- bers of his gang with the pistols on them in one swoop a few weeks ago, had turned to the hunt for a baby of helpless, poor par ents with the same zeal. A few days ago he was compelled to turn his at tention back .U the gunmen as the crime wave broke over the city. He declared a mometnary truce. however when the report of the finding of the body was brought to him and rushed with his men to the basement to examine the place for any belong ings which the murderer might have left behind.
 The lower east side was particu- larly aroused when the murder of Irving Pickelny became & certainty because only a few days ago Gov. Al Smith, also an east slider, commuted the sentences of two Italian murder CTS who were awaiting execution in the death house at Sing Sing for a similar crime in the same region These men had kidnapped the son of a Sicilian peddler for ransom and after the boy had been held for stipulated time he was killed and thrown in the Hudson river. The trials were long and costly and in the end the governor extended olemency to the killers. Because of threats of venge- ance, the murdered boys family was spirited out of the country by several wealthy American women, among them being Miss Anne Morgan
 There is only a faint hope of find- ing the murderer. A little Italian girl was murdered in the same manner in a tenement basement in Brooklyn less than year ago and no arrests were made. And the Kidnapping of Irving Pickelny followed soon after the po- lice gave up the search for an in- fant Kidnapped from a baby carriage on the lower west side late in the summer