Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 194, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1912 — MISSING BOY HELD PRISONER [ARTICLE]

MISSING BOY HELD PRISONER

One Foot Was Trapped In s Fanes and He Could Not Free Himself, so He Went to Sleep. New York.—The mystery of the disappearance of three-year-old Americus Trodoro of 1018 Dekalb avenue, Brooklyn, who was thought to be In the hands of Black Hand kidnapers, has been cleared up. Americas, whose father is a barber, was mlfsed from his home at 8 o’clock in the evening. Early the next morning Sergeant Reynolds of the Gates avenue station was passing the lawn of a house In Stuyvesant avenue, near Kosciusko street, about a block from the Trodoro home, when he saw a child’s foot between the pickets of the iron fance. He looked in and saw a small boy fast asleep on the grass. It was Americas. The sergeant found that the boy's foot was tightly wedged in between the pickets and that the lad was a prison the grass. Americas said that he was searching for his pet eat and had gone Into the yfed to look around. While ellmbtag the fence to got out he caught his foot between tbe pickets and could not release himself. No one passed and bis .cries were unheard. Finally, tired, out, he went to sleep o nthe grass.