From
outside sources the police heard that the child had been
stolen, but, although he was receiving constant letters and
telephonic communications from the kidnappers, Dr. Scimeca
would not give them any information. It is known on pretty
good authority that the sum of $10,000 was at first demanded
as a ransom, and was lowered by degrees to $5,000, $2,500, and
finally to $1,700. Dr. Scimeca at last made terms with the
kidnappers, and was told to go one evening to City Park, where
he is said to have handed $1,700 to a stranger. The child was
found wandering aimlessly in the streets next day, after a
detention of nearly three months.
The second case was that of Vincenzo Sabello, a grocer of 386
Broome Street, who lost his little boy on August 26, 1911.
After thirty days he reported the matter to the police, but
shortly after tried to throw them off the track by saying that
he had been mistaken, that the boy had not been kidnapped, and
that he wished no assistance. Finallv he ordered the
detectives out of his place.
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