The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-06
POLICELED To
Boys BODY BY
Slayer TALE
7-Year-0Id Kidnap Victim
Found in Swamp With
Throat SIaShed.
C0NFESSES IN DETROIT
Squad of so Searches
Meadows After Word
From Michigan.

By United Press
NEW YORK, Dec. 6.-The body
Of Joseph Storelli, 7, who was
murdered and left in the meadow
swampland Ecar Secaucus, N. j.,
was found by detectives today.
The detectives began searching
for the body at dawn after they
had received word from Detroit
police that Peter KudzinoWski had
confessed to kidnapping the boy,
slashing his throat, and hurting
the body from the Susquehanna
bridge.
Soon after the boys body was
found, Judge Leo S. Sullivan of
Jersey City issued a murder war
rant for Kudzinowski.
If he valves extradition police
lieutenant will start for Detroit to
bring him to New Jersey. Police
Inspector Underwood said the case
would be submitted to a grand jury
in Jersey City Friday.
The body of the boy, who lived
in New York, was found near the
SuSquehanna railroad embankment.
1t bore evidence of brutal mistreat-
ment.
The boys throat had been cut
from ear to ear-So deeply that the
head was nearly severed.
Rusty Knife Found
A bloodstained. rusty knife was
located near the body. 1t was the
small, sharp type of knife used by
butchers in trimming meat.
After Kudzinowski, alias Roy
Lambert, alias Roy Rogers, had been
identified, DETROIT police notified
New York police that the man had
confessed to the murder and asked
if New York police would claim the
prisoner.
According to the Detroit police,
Kudzinowski also admitted a muir
der in Scranton, Pa.
Joseph Storelli was standing in
front of store near his home
watching fish swim in tank on
the evening of the kidnapping. His
sister Magdalena was with him, but
she left Joseph and went home to
supper.
Later Joseph'S playlnates saw
him with the strange man. Joseph
failed to come home and his mother
started a search OF east side cellars.
Police, volunteers and firemen
joined in the futile hunt.
Joseph M Saccaro, a taxi driver,
read of the kidnapping and saw the
boys picture in a tabloid paper. He
told police it was the same boy he
had taken to Grand Central station
with a man who acted nervouSly.
Signs of Struggle
At dawn today squad Of sixty
policemen clad in hunting toys, be-
gan a search of the meadows under
direction of Captain William Hogue,
Of the Jersey City police force, In
spector- John Underwood and Cap
tain John Stork, who knows every
inch of the Secaucus meadows.
After an hour of search, Captain
Hogue came upon the body hidden
under a brown overcoat.
The body was lying face down.
ward in the tall grass.
The clothing, which consisted of
a blue sweater, brown overalls, shirt
and white underwear, was diSar-
ranged and bloodstained.
The boys arms were stretched
over his head. His salt and pepper
cap lay five feet away.
Hurried examination revealed a
large bruise on the back over the
right kidney. The body was frozen.
The spot where the discovery was
made, is some distance from any
dwelling. 1t is lonely and deserted
and only the lights from the road
in the distance, are visible at night.
The grass was higher than a
mans head when the crime was
committed so that struggle might
not have been seen from the road