The evening world. Newspaper, September 3, 1907, Page 16

HELD FOR RANSOM BY BLACK HAND Police Sure Gang Stole Little Louisa Florentino to Extort Money. Ld DON’T BELIEVE FATHER. : He Denies’ Having - Received _, Any Threat or Demand é f \_ from Blackmailers. £ _ Although Pietfo Florentino, father of “ Loulesa Florentino. the six-year-old ebiid who wan kidnapped as she was walking down First avenue on Sunday mear her home, No. 43 East Eleventh denies: ‘he hax received Black the police are convinced nor i Candid with them, fearing to incur the wrath of the murderous blackmailers whose venge- fance would fall on his child. “Detective Tucker, of the Fifth street station, after vainly attempting to xet Florentino to admit the Black Hand @emands on him, questioned an elder won of the family, This youth admitted hat bis father had been threatened. Water he denied that such was the cnee. ~ : detectives are firm in the belief that the little gtrl ts being held prisoner fn one*of the Itaitan colonies in Man- Ihattan 20 Brooklyn and that the same ung of kidnappers who stole the Calla Boy from Brooklyn and a number of ether little ones, at! children of Italtans reputed wealthy, are now holding litte Taitva = - *There-is also a theory among the po- Bide that relatives of the child's father or mother sre her kidnappers. This, Qrowever, has not been supported by facts. Florentino, who is a baker, has iq his establishment his brother, his brother-in-law and a young man who Grives his delivery wagon. i Were All at Work. sYheee three are all well known to ‘Wicola, the nine-year-old son of the _ thmily who was walking with Loutsal Erie, Pacifics, Reading, Brook when she was snatched up on the street, aod all were at the bakery at the time, The baker's wagon used by the kidnap- Pers to carry the girl off was not Floréntina’a wagon. ae Little Nicola has been trained well in keping facts secret from the police. epmmitted or who are the sufferers, to prefer making his own terms with the kidnappers, and that these terms include the payment of a handsome Fansomi the pollce have no doubt. Little Nicola Florentino's first story about-the kidnapping was to the ¢ffect that he and his sister were walking Along the street when a baker's wagon drow up at the curbing. Th a ree Sprang out faa id seized the git and made off with her. Le Now, he says that he-met a “big man on First avenye The man, who Wore a-musta: che-and spoke Itallan, had asked where~fie and his sister were ink. cola says he told the man 4y Were bound for the candy store, Boy's Story Confirmed. ‘Then ask: in thers<how much tar Montcax are worth,”~ the man told him, i The boy says an he entered the st Ipaving bis sister on the street, wet We saw the wagon drive up contin ag tw. men. He asked the ‘wink of the store the price of the harmonicas, the man when he ing down the str his little sister were gone “The detectives have found that Doy told the truth about calling a returned to tell 1g man and the the store, which Is at No. 316 East. > wtreet. Miss Florence Minovitz, who was behind the counter, remembered the in- jeident RAIDS GAME. THAT CAPTAIN DIDN'T SEE stnspector___Captures_-Crap- _ Shooters Who. Were Unmo- lested by Precinct Officers. 1¢ Wagon dash-| undertone, THE EVENING WORLD, Kidnapped Girl Who Police _ Say Is Held by Black Hand STOCKS ADVANCE ON FAR DEMAND lyn Rapid Transit and Smelting Lead. The resumption of operations interval reeulted in These were mostly gains helped by the| . Fiorentino when questioned by the|hicher prices established abroad durins ~,, police seemed absolutely stolid about| the cessation of business here, but ¢ the stealing of his daughter. He seemed] umber of the industrial stocks showea in substantial amount, and steady and vigorous rising American Smeltini advance of 4 &. St. Louls and American with tendenc: 8. Reduction pre and National Léad Central, Great Northern Ore Certiti Amalgamated Copper and Anaca of 9 Some irregularity developed in afternoon, owing to the Ing ordera and the realizing sales. and acted 4 ue fell t 2 sing, Union Packie touched 130 rise of 2 5-8, and there was an rovement also of 3 in Southern Ra E Union The ma fing] trading was dull al sales of stoc 620,100 stares and of bx The Closing Quotation To-day’s highest, lowest, and net final quo Mila, Chain Amal closing Lietectives from the office of Inapec- stor” Swey carved thelr way with Sivex ms above a five Manhattan ay . early to-day and. Arrested elght twenty men, who “re engaged In wooing ne God- Fortune in the uncertainties of a Fame. + raid was made over the heads of nanding officers of the Green- ce Station, in whose precinct is located. Capt, Aloncle, of that station, is upon his Lieut who was on » In his ate are that wicked gamesters were full operation almost under ils eyes. sent one of his Ke In Uh real dollars from Ne Jost thirty of the dice. ime during t proceedinis Bio on the table. Who ipanions broke into the game early $102 In sight try to dis- Mus OF aR police a A Mara § Philadelphia Presa.) understood that Capt item fi ting record.’* . He alwaye fights fiercely t any attempt to have him as- feld. to duty in T. & 8 Balt & Ohio B. Rap. Tran Can, Pa Chee & Com, Prod. ( Com, Prod. Del, Ll. & Del Den & Ho & Kilo Imter, M Mh Central Inter. P Inter. Paper Towa Cent per Sloss, Sbef, 60, Pact! Bo, Pas, vf. in} me Many obildren of Italians have had 1t| stocks to-day after the three days’. holl drilled into them to tell nothing to the} day police no matter what crime has been|changes from FriSey's closing leve) moderate tocka were later in the session taken if Was buoyant at an New York, Chicago «| Allan 3, Canadian} 1 3-4, Great Northern preferred, Denver the contict of buy- im: rket held strong to the close, | Me "pany, PINKERTON’ BODY MET BY MCURNERS Friends of Late Detective Chief on Pier to Give Tribute to the Dead. body of iRobert Pinkerton ar | rtved at Hoboken to-day on the North German Lioyd liner Bremen. This shir |was carrying the head of the detec tive agency to England two week when he died at sea, and the body never deft -the #hip.but was ight back i emall fractional declines. baie bad shea 55 ethoaiine Bt! Loula|& San (Feantlaco second vre:|. Robert Pinkerton. Jr, met the liner ferred tuse 1o- Srie first. preferrec |&t Quarantine and came in wi Titi Union” Facil, Northern: Paciic: |body,Helwas met at the oler by Ne eadins. tyn Transit. ‘Third 1 sivertol nuevand ‘American /Smetting Ave- brother. Allan Pinkerton, and his un point tnd_ Southern Petitic, Ne fele, Wiliam Pin jead of | the Central. Toledo. St. Louls & Westerr | Western branch ncy.: | With preferred and American Looomotivc | them wei any and ofti- lupge fractions. ‘Trading was. fir. cers of the axency and friends. Wher he saw quite a crowd of acquaintances, Robert Pinkerton, Jr. demanded angri | ly of his Orother “Who brougnt these people here?” — | Pinkerton responded that they | were friends who d come of i Pacific 23-4, Lackawanna 4, Consoll- OW" Wisi to {ne dated Gas 2 1.2 Mae, Nor iker_ took n- | Pacific, U. Day Mr. te ace in Brooktyn funeral services ‘afternoon in held & Wo Grande, Kansas City Bouthern y wilt preferred and ftepub: 1 mnael nt in) Grace | Miasourl “Pacific, Noriliwestern, Mibne- [Se roay wtternoon. ; apolls f& St. Louls, Colorado Fuel and | Trananennnigers aeayranct ternational Paper 1. Chicago Untor = | Traction preferred sold at an advance BIDS OPENED FOR FIVE | TORPEDO-BOAT. DESTROYERS however, remained notably | WASHINGTON, Sent. 3 aah strong and the mar WAS Not off the y Department to- than a mode: fraction fr construction of five torpedo- fetronx Street Railway under the terms of the ers inaumes had following session, t the defic 0 the num: cted. | is act was fixed » and no bidd at $Me contracts sement at wishie ndeatena of mi ments. those--0f x Tor tw crt Bath Inzn Works, | mene < Com. boat at Fore Quincy, | Bis, ey : *y| WHEAT MAKES GAINS IN ACTIVE MARKET, rea r starting ac dy in the market ¢ ced and closed with gains. ther was reported In the West s favored the rise In prices | n wax also up. December, K prices 5 10: May, 110 7- mber, 68 1 rber, MH “JLTED COLLEGE jbam College football malmed and; Venetta, W. V shipbuilding ,Wefalte, im MAN AND ELOPED WITH ANOTHER —— Swain Deserted as He Pre- pared for Wedding Vows to Kill His Rival. | Gries conic wena) | ITHAGA, N._¥., BSept.3-—-On the eve} of Tier marrage to + man. and after two years betrothal. Miss Marie Noble, @ weil keiown. young lady of this eloped last nigot with David ite, one time member of the Ford- team Yale nari to be in, New York © Dantlel D, Kline, Corrreit sertel Nance, Villlagaport mild junior mt ay, vowing ‘that he White on aight. Mrs. Nobles ts at her home ated, but Mrs. White, the mother of} le young man, says that ‘Miss Nobles uly loved my son better than she did tr. Kline," and asked the reporters to rite the elopement up as a romance ather than as a ackndal Mra. White {x a seriter of melodramas. White met Misa Nobles this summer, hey were both musicians an dsoon b me Interested in each other, While he romance was progressing Kline ar- ived on the acene, and preparations for he wedding wore made, Yesterday Miss obles and Kiine were on the atreets uying things for thelr home. Last ight the girl slipped ‘away from her nome and met White near the Lehigh { station. They boarded a train going south, and nothing more has been heard of them, DEAD, 11 HURT IN WRECK WHEN RAILS SPREAD Chesapeake and Ohio. Train - Derailed Near Kanawha Falls, W. Va. : pros- CHARLESTON, W. Va., Sept. 2—A Chesapeake and Ohio local train was derailed a mile below Kanawha Falls last night. Five persons were killed and eleven injured. The dead ar William Campbell, of | Walter Saunders, of | Wendall, W. Va.; Stlas Vaugnt, of Gau- ley, W. 'Va.; Alien Leving, expressman, Hinton, W. Va., and ai unideatitied | White man. i Robert Allen suffered am broken leg. | Injuries to the others are so siigat that! they continued on their journey. | eading of the railn Is supposed to! caused the accident. The track was torn up for several hundred yards. Trains were delayed for several hours. | ee pees H TEMPLE IRON ALSO CALLS | CHARGES SCANDALOUS. Reading in Replying to Goyern- ment’s Allegations. PHILADELPHIA, Sept answer, that of the Temple Jron Co. was filed in the United States ( ¢ ‘ourt here to-day in the sult of the Federal Government against the railroad and coal companies that are cha 1 maintaining @ monopoly of the an. wolte coal Induwtry jn restraint of vernment in {ta bill of com- int charged that certain of iracite coal carrying roads the construction ‘by independe: operators of a railroad to carry a! their product to tidewater and that ther forced the Independents to turn thelt ol over to the railroads whieh had formed a pool to_handle this traffic In onler ty e the pool ffs rallrod urchased the entir al TOOK, $215,000, Of The” Temite V0 Company, which operated @ small Iron furnice near Read) Pa, but which had the right under Its charter to own andj operate coal mines The answer of the Temple Iron Com- pany denles that the coal roads curs Onased the capital stock of tha pany aud ‘also denier that the ron Company has “throttled c tition in the franmportation and »: racite coal.!? The Temple Tron Company's answer, as iid those of the’ three Reading com- panies {last —wank,reters et Government « charges AS Tilnent ami soamdalou er JANUARY COTTON IN DEMAND BY TRADERS, | com- ‘empie | je of Cotton opened lower to-day in re. | mponse to poor cables from Liverpool, | ‘The weather m@p showed an absence f rain In Texas, ‘Bhe trading was ac tive with a liberal demand for January, | The opening prices were: Septemb. 11.8; 12.18 bid; November, 1 to 12.43} | mber, 11.62; October. Novem: 2.28, to. 12.30; Ds 12.4 to : January. 12.48 to February, March, 12.53 to 12.54; April 12.61 to 12:62, "~ JAMES McGREERY & G0); LADIES’ SUITS. 12 Bot Fall models. Iniported Bl Plaited or gored m 23rd Street. January, | * of novelty and plain fabrics, GTFUERSUVUAYTY, SEPITEMS GRAPHERS 10 GIVE UP EFFORT TO REACH GOULD fas, President Small, Back from) Secret Mission, Says They'll “Stand Pat.” National President Small, leader of the striking telegraphers, returned last night from the Tet mission on which | he left Saturday. “T cannot teli you an next Saturday.” he sald thing will be doing.’ The Western U in directors will meet on Sept. 10. The atrike jeaders de- nounce as false ‘thin, despatch whiah'| they say the telegraph companies sent out to mislead the strikers: ~ Plans to end the thlegraphe announced at ne unt! n some- trike were the regular meeting of the Telegraphers’ L ‘A committee of forty- five delegates f MW aeetions of ¢ try will ineet In New York on § bs tn readiness fhould the compantes evince discuss terms of settlement It waa miso announoed at the meeting that | the operators had alent thelr demande; from Id per cent. Increase In wages to 25! ‘per cent. “I want to say that there will be no further efforts: to reach the Goulds to bring about a settlement.” said Chair- mian Russell. of the strike committee, westerday “We have received funds from the Order of Railway Telegraph- ers and We are in @ position to stand pat." <The ‘strikers will open an agency .at the Astor House thls morning for the purpose of xetting employment for strikers on the railroads. many of | which are ging extra men, WRECKERS LAID TRAP FOR FLYER OWN. Y, CENTRAL Jersey City Excursionists Peril When Disaster Is Barely Averted. in} SYRACUSE, N.Y., Se) —The police of this city have arrested two younz forelxners, who are unable to speak Enxilsh, in connection with an attempt made early this morning to wreck the Buffalo special, a fast pass train on the New York Central, at Jordan twenty miles west of here. Ties wore placed on the luckily the train was signa a short Cistunce trom cause there was an carrying New Jersey pec Hoboken from Nisgara Falls, next block, The passenger train resunied its Jour hey under slow speed and w the ob Atruction was He trucks of the Ic but there was no A wrecking train to the ac wand —t loitering arrested. FE LUNG AL NIGHT TO YACHT Fishermen Rescue Sailing Party, in Wreck on Barne- gat Bay. track, but ed to stop n be- nN train, back to on the exe About the ATLANTIC CITY, ter clinging to thetr overturned boat ‘1 Barnegat young 1 Ashermen near her | The men, William Haddon and Eu- geno Sullivan, of Camden, N. J; Le- row Webb, of Philadelphia. and How- krd Derby and Lodge Parker, of iniend Heights, set out yesterday’ Ina (hirty= foot open sailing yacht to vlew the races of the Inland Heighta Yacht Club, ‘On the way back tw Island Helghts the boat captized and all the men. all {ood swimmers, had no trouple in Extnbering onto’ the overturned craft. They drifted about unl. early Stale triorning when they wete discovered by the. fishermen, j a pee FAMINE THEATENED. TON, Ky 3.—Practl- Kentucky, directly adjacent to Oh ts threatened with a coal famine, ac- Ms fing to wholesale coal dealers, A cortiesaler here, who represents a group Whomines in Kentucky which supr te. Beate with coal, says the short tf carn to haul coal from. th careity of men to mine coal and sortaze in production Bay all of ‘ast night five n were rescued by passing nd landed at Island Helghts, COAL Sept> except h Stores. Tailored Suits made 29.50 and 35.00 ack Serge Skirts, nodels, 14.50 34th Street. er ee Slates In nil sizex, pee, tre? if us these Biack- board Erasers. 4C Liarge — Conposition Book, goad’ nual- 3 ity paper; each, JC Largest Assortment of emposition Looks in the citys at, ex Ie? School Crazons, col Ore. packed tn wooden box, earn Ie Erasers, several styles, nuit, Joe New York’s greatest and. most important sale of School Supplies. 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