Gaspare Magaddino, an al leged Mafia triggerman sought by the local and international police in connection with mur ders and bombings here and in Sicily, was found slain on a Brooklyn sidewalk early yester day.
The police, called by neigh borhood residents who heard a shot at 5:15 A.M., said Mr. Magaddino, who was identified by the Federal Bureau of In vestigation, was apparently shoe as he walked past a panel truck found parked not far from the body, which lay in front of 2462 East Second Street, be tween Avenues X and Y, in the Sheepshead Bay section.
They said that Mr. Magad dino, who was dressed in con struction worker's clothes and carrying his lunch in a paper bag, had been hit in the head and right shoulder with by a “blast from a singleâ€barrel 12†gauge shotgun found in the truck, which had been stolen. Mr. Maggadino, it was learned after his slaying, had been liv ing about a block away, at 2538 East Second Street, with his second wife, Marie, 42, whom he married last September.
The 62â€yearâ€old Mr. Maggadino, who was wanted by Inter pol, the international police or ganization, in connection with several bombings in Sicily be tween 1965 and 1967, had no known convictions.
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He was a cousin of Stefano Magaddino, reputed Mafia boss of the Buffaloâ€Niagara Falls area, and of Joseph (Joe Ba nanas) Bonanno, who is be lieved to have been, on and off, the Mafia boss of Brooklyn. Gaspare Magaddino was be lieved by the police in Queens to be the man who walked in to Cypress Gardens bar and res taurant in Ridgwood on a Fri day evening in November, 1967, and killed three diners— two Mafiosi and an “innocent bystander relative†— with a 45â€caliber submachine gun.
He was also sought by thel Nassau County police for the 1964 killing of Albert Galente, a 47â€yearâ€old cement worker believed to have been involved with gambling. Mr. Magaddino was believed to have left the United States for Sicily after that killing. He also was wanted by the United Staes Naturaliza tion and Immigration Service for having reâ€entered the coun try illegally.