Father and Son Indicted in Queens

A Queens investigation into a rising number of homicides, some of them believed drug‐related, led to simultaneous indictments yesterday of Marco Mucciolo of Queens in two ganglandstyle slayings and of his 31-year-old son, Joseph, of Brooklyn and four others for alleged possession of 14 pounds of cocaine imported through a “Venezuelan connection.”

Mr. Mucciolo, 61, reputed to be a “hit man” for the Franzese‐Colombo crime “family,” was accused of the contract murder last spring of Pasquale Macchiarole and the 1974 murder of Mauro Agnello, a former fireman and reputed loan shark. Mr. Macchiarole was described as an underboss in the TieriGenovese crime family.

The younger Mr. Mucciolo was arrested Sunday at Kennedy International Airport. He and John Di Gennaro of Manhattan and Edward Cavacuiti of Brooklyn had just met Maria C. Vitale, a Brooklyn legal secretary, and Neil Hullo, a Queens lumber inspector, all of whom were arrested when their suitcases were allegedly found to contain the cocaine, said to have a street value of $3 million.

Charles Monaco was having a drink in a bar when he was murdered.

Frank Morici had just said good night to his girlfriend when he was shot four times and left to die in a snow‐covered street..

Wayne Beuf answered the doorbell at home and was greeted by a hail of bullets.

And Ralph Broccoli was waiting for a companion in a nearly empty restaurant when three gunmen cut him down.

All four were killed in the same area of Brooklyn—the Bath Beach and Bay Ridge sections—over a three‐week period ‘ last month. At first the police considered the murders unrelated. But now city detectives and Federal narcotics investigators believe that the slain men had been involved in drug trafficking and that the outburst of violence may be part of a bloody struggle between two New York organized crime groups.

“Narcotics seem to be the common denominator in these murders,” said Lieut. Robert A. Kelly, commanding officer of the 10th Detective Homicide Zone in Brooklyn. “There seems to be a curious connection, and we're checking it out.” Possible Dispute Over Narcotics.

City detectives and agents of the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration said that the Brooklyn underworld murders may stem from disputes over narcotics spoils between the crime factions headed by Carmine Galente and one organized by the late Carlo Gambino.

The 35-year-old Mr. Broccoli is listed in city and Federal law‐enforcement files as a soldier” in the Gambino organization. Mr. Bent, who was 26, was once chauffeur for Mr. Broccoli. The other murdered men, Mr. Morici, who was 32 and Mr. Monaco, 31, are believed to have had narcotics or other crime ties with either Mr. Broccoli or Mr. Beuf.

All of the murder victims had arrest or conviction records on narcotics or other charges.

“Broccoli was the key person in these murders,” said an official in the Police Department's intelligence division. “He was a fairly important guy for the Gambino family in narcotics in New York, Florida and Las Vegas, and we suspect there has been a growing feud over drugs between people in the Gambino and Galente families. What happened to Broccoli and the others obviously is message that someone is unhappy with the Gambinos.”

Several local and Federal law‐en forcement officials involved in organized crime surveillance regard the Broccoli murder as part of a two-year-old campaign by the Galante organization to eliminate rival narcotics leaders in the Gambino group.

The body of a reputed organized-crime figure, once accused of extorting money from a prominent Queens nightclub owner who was later murdered, was found stuffed in the trunk of a rented car early yesterday in the Canarsie section of Brooklyn.

Two other men, also with reported mob connections, were found murdered yesterday about 10 blocks apart in the nearby Sheepshead Bay area.

Meanwhile, detectives here pressed their hunt for the two gunmen who on Tuesday night fatally shot Salvatore Briguglio, 48 years old, who had been regarded as a key suspect in the 1975 disappearance of James R. Hoffa, the teamster leader.

Lieut. John J. Yuknes of the First Homicide Zone in Manhattan said detectives were looking into many possibilities, including speculation that Mr. Briguglio was murdered to silence him in connection with either the Hoffa case or a murder trial scheduled to start May 1 in upstate New York.
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Mr. Briguglio, a business agent for Teamster Local 560 in Union City, N.J., had been indicted together with Anthony Provenzano, the secretary‐treasurer of the local, and another man for the 1961 kidnap‐murder of a rival union official.

Lieutenant Yuknes said that it was now believed that someone or some persons had taken Mr. Briguglio to Mulberry Street in the Little Italy section of lower Manhattan, where he was suddenly set upon from behind by two gunmen who knocked him to the sidewalk and shot him five times.

Detectives in Manhattan and Brooklyn said that they had no information that would link the Briguglio murder with any of the bodies discovered yesterday in Brooklyn or that even connected the Brooklyn killings with one another.

They also said that they did not have any; reason to suspect that there was war. under way between organized crime factions that would account for the Brooklyn murders. They noted there were a number of coincidences, but one detective, added, “The world is full of coincidences.”

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The man found in the trunk of the car was Pasquale Macchirole, 56, who was known as “Paddy Mac,” and reportedly had been associated with both the Vito Genovese and Joseph A. Colombo crime factions.
The extortion charge against him was dropped after the murder on March 30, 1972, of the key witness, Conrad Greaves, owner of the lucrative Conrad's Cloud Room nightclub in the El Capitan Motel near La Guardia Airport.

The Queens District Attorney's office had charged that Mr. Macchirole, whose name has been spelled in different ways at different times, would pose as “peacemaker” after hoodlums beat up employees or customers in restaurants or nightclubs. Mr. Greaves had asserted that he was forced to pay $400 weekly for “protection.”

Four men were charged with Mr. Greaves's murder. One was convicted, but the conviction was overturned on appeal; two were acquitted, and charges against Thcmas DiLio, a nephew of Mr. Macchirole. were dropped.

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On March 28, 1974--virtually two years to the .day after the murder of Mr. Greaves—Mr. DiLio's body was found in the trunk of a car in Maspeth, Queens.

The police found Mr. Macchirole's body yesterday after his family received an anonymous phone call telling them where to look, He had be ‘missing for three weeks.

Americus Scotes, a 48-year-old trucker, was walking his dog at 6:30 A.M. yesterday near his home on East Fourth Street, near Avenue U, in the Sheepshead Bay section, when he was fatally shot in the head and chest.

Police sources said that he had at one time been “loosely” tied to the Colombo faction.

On another Sheepshead Bay street—Boynton Place at Avenue X—was the body of Patrick Presenzano, 35. He had been beaten, shot in the head and his throat was cut. He was reputed to have been a member of the Genovese faction and to have been active in the narcotics trade in the Fulton Market area.
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Although the police said he lived on Nostrand Avenue in Brooklyn, a driver's license found on the body gave a Miami address. Lieut. John J. McCarthy of the 10th Homicide Zone said that he had probably been killed elsewhere and dumped where he was found.

Mr. Briguglia had also reportedly been a member of the Genovese organization.

Along with his brother and another man, he had been implicated by a Federal informer as being in the July 1975 kidnap‐murder of Mr. Hoffa, the former president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.

But authorities could not develop any evidence and no charges were ever brought against the three, even though investigators have believed that Mr. Briguglio was still a key to unraveling the unsolved mystery surrounding the onetime teamster leader.

A Newark high school principal who was shot to death in front of his home in North Arlington, N.J., last week was killed with the same .22‐caliber weapon used in at least three recent gangland slayings, according to reports of ballistics tests rereleased by the Bergen County Prosecutor's office.

The 35-year-old principal, James J Quell Jr., was shot last Wednesday night as he arrived at his home after attending a political rally in the Ironbound section of Newark, where he grew up.

The police, who found $1,900 in cash and a number of sports betting slips in his wallet, said Mr. Quell had been the target of Essex County investigations into gambling and a questionable $9 million construction cost overrun at Newark's East Side High School, where he was the principal.

According to Bergen County's first assistant prosecutor, Raymond A. Flood, the eight bullets removed from Mr. Queli's body matched those taken from the bodies of three men slain in the metropolitan area since 1976.
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Earlier Victims Listed

They were identified as Vincent Capone, who was killed in Hoboken in 1976; Frank Chin, a professional wiretapper murdered in his Manhattan apartment building in January 1977, and Thomas Palermo, a Brooklyn man found slain in Queens in April 1977.

Mr. Capone and Mr. Chin had been considered potential witnesses against John DiGilio, an associate of the Vito Genovese crime “family” who was convicted in 1975 for plotting to steal files on his alleged loansharking activities from the Newark office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

In reporting the ballistics tests performed by the New York City Police Department, Mr. Flood said the bullets from Mr. Queli's body had also been linked to .22‐caliber gun barrel found on Monday by a North Arlington man raking leaves.

Mr. Flood speculated that the killer might have discarded the gun barrel because he was afraid that witnesses had noted the license number of his car as fled the murder scene.

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The Quell murder is the latest in series of mystery slayings across the country that have been linked to .22-caliber guns — low‐power weapons that had rarely been used in gangland murders before.
Since 1975 the F.B.I. has compiled a list of about 25 men, including police inform-

ers and mob figures, who have been slain with .22's.

They include Sam Giancana, the Chicago Mafia leader killed in 1975, and Frank Bompensiero, a West Coast mob figure and F.B.I. informer, who was slain in San Diego in 1977.

The murder of Mr. Quell, who was slain in view of his wife and three young children, has drawn the attention of Federal authorities, including agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, who filmed mourners at his funeral on Monday.

Nevertheless. Mr. Flood said, there are no suspects.

The authorities working to solve the $5.8 million robbery of Lufthansa's cargo building at Kennedy International Airport last Dec. 11 now suspect that five people may have been murdered in connection with the holdup.

One man was found shot to death in his Queens apartment a week after the robbery, and a second was found frozen, with no marks on his body, in a truck trailer in Brooklyn.

The three others believed murdered, two men and a woman, simply disappeared. Law enforcement officials said they were working on the supposition that the three were killed and are not just in hiding, but refused to elaborate.

The officials said the five, in one way or another, were all believed to be connected with the group of what the authorities describe as a low‐level organizederime group headed by James Burke, a former convict who has been named, but not charged, as a key suspect in the Lufthansa case.
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The new avenue of investigation comes after more than three months of frustrating work by the Organized Crime Strike Force for the Eastern District of New York, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the New York City Police Department, the Port Authority police, the Nassau County Police and the United States Customs Service — an alliance that has produced some sparks of friction from time to time.

Now, with only one man formally charged for participating in the holdup. and the missing $5 million in United States currency and $850,000 worth of jewels yet to be recovered, investigators from the different agencies are sharing information and piecing together bits of the puzzle behind the largest robbery in the nation's history.

In one week, the offer of a reward of up to $500,000, extended by insurance companies for information leading to recovery of the stolen cargo, will expire.

Among the new leads being pursued by investigators now is the possibility that Theresa Ferrara, a 27‐year‐old partowner of a Long Island beauty parlor who disappeared on Feb. 10, was somehow associated with the Lufthansa robbers. The Nassau County police, investigating her disappearance, reportedly determined that she previously lived in a two‐family Queens house shared by someone affili ated with Mr. Burke.

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The police said Mrs. Ferrara was last seen at her beauty shop, Apples Hairstyle on Merrick Road in Bellmore, L.I., where she received what she said was an anonymous telephone call asking her to meet someone at a nearby diner. She left with out her pocketbook, money or keys and told her niece to come look for her if she did not return within 15 minutes. According to the police in Nassau County, she never got to the diner.
Similarly, they are looking into the disappearance, around the same time, of Martin Krugman, a beautician and alleged bookmaker in Nassau County. The police there say that Mr. Krugman's family specifically requested that no information be released about his disappearance. Authorities suspect, however, that Louis Werner, a Lufthansa cargo employee indicted as the “inside man” on the robbery, was heavily in debt to Mr. Krugman and went to him with the idea for the holdup and for help in assembling a crew to pull it off.

On a prior occasion when Mr. Krugman needed help, officials say, he went to Mr. Burke, who sent Thomas DeSimone, another former convict, to Mr. Krugman's aid. Mr. DeSimone, named by an informant soon after the airport holdup as hav ling participated in it, was on parole when he was reported missing on Jan. 14. His wife, Cookie, who has since been called by the grand jury investigating the Lufthansa case, went to the police to report his disappearance.

DeSimone's Friend Slain

At that time, Mr. DeSimone. who ?? in Ozone Park, was being sought for questioning about a murder that occurred there on Dec. 18. The Queens police had found Steven EdwardS, a close associate of Mr. DeSimone, shot to death in his recently acquired Ozone Park apartment and suspected Mr. DeSimone of having killed him.

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According to Chief Edward J. Stoll of the Queens detectives, both men had been associated with the Paul Vario crime “family,” a group he said had been responsible for other crimes at Kennedy International Airport. Mr. Burke, identified by the police as a key figure in that group. lives in Howard Beach. Queens, but was on parole and in a Federal halfway house with Mr. DeSimone at the time of the Lufthansa holdup.

Mr. Burke was also with Angelo J. Sepe on the afternoon that Mr. Sepe was arrested on.charges of having participated in the robbery, and now faces the possibility of having his parole revoked for having associated with known criminals and having made an unauthorized trip to Florida, following the Lufthansa holdup.

The Organized Crime Strike Force, headed by Thomas P. Puccio has decided not to seek an ind??ment of Mr. Sepe at this time while ??ng him in custody for having Violated his parole.

Mr. Burke's name was found by authorities in an address book belonging to Richard Eaton, whose frozen body was found in a trailer in the East New York section of Brooklyn in early February.

Investigators believe that Mr. Eaton may have played a role in helping the robbers “launder” the money taken in the robbery. In an effort to recover the currency, the police flew to Florida some weeks ago and searched a safe deposit box in which they had been told Mr. Eaton had placed millions of dollars, but they found nothing.

A Brooklyn man and his son, both said to be members of the organized‐crime family of the late Carlo Gambino, were shot to death late Monday night in the front seat of a car parked in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn, the police reported.

Shortly afterward, two of the three men who allegedly committed the murders were captured nearby during a shootout with an off‐duty Housing Authority police officer, who was moonlighting as a gypsy‐cab driver. The two men were each charged with two counts of murder and one count of attempted murder of a police officer.

The dead men were identified as James Eppolito, 64 years old, and James A. Eppolito, 33, both of 8721 Narrows Avenue, Brooklyn. The police said they were uncertain about the motive for the slayings.

The police added that the elder Eppolito had been arrested seven times since the 1930's on gambling charges and that he had allegedly been involved in running extensive gambling operations, which were reported to have involved the son.
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Witness Hailed a Cab

According to the police, this is what happened on Monday at about 9:30 P.M.:

Five men were sitting in a redtrimmed, white 1978 Ford Thunderbird sedan in a secluded spot near Shore Parkway and Brighton Sixth Street. Three of the men got out and shot both of the Eppolitos three of four times in the head. The three then fled, one in one direction and two others in another direction.

A witness to the shooting, whom the police declined to identify, followed two of the fleeing men and hailed a cab nearby at Coney Island and Neptune Avenues in order to get the driver to use his radio to call the police.

The driver of the cab was Paul Roder, 34, a sergeant with the housing police. Sergeant Roder jumped from his cab and ordered the two fleeing men to stop. Instead they starting shooting. Sergeant Roder ducked behind his cab and fired back, wounding both men.

The men were taken to Coney Island Hospital, where they were identified as Anthony Gaggi, 54, of 1929 Cropsey Avenue, Brooklyn, who was suffering from a hip wound, and Peter Piacenti, 58, of 266 Bay 10th Street, Brooklyn, who had been wounded in the neck. Both men were reported in fair coutition yesterday at the hospital. Sergeant Roder was not injured.

The third suspect is still being sought.

A Manhattan gang, whose memoers worked just a decade ago as teen‐age errand boys for major narcotics traffickers, has now emerged as a new and violent force of its own in organized crime in New York, according to confidential police and Federal agency intelligence reports.

The group, which calls itself the Purple Gang, after the hand of criminals that terrorized Detroit during the Prohibition era, has been identified by law enforcement agencies as being involved in the following criminal activities:

¶The murder—and in many cases dismembering—of 17 individuals with criminal backgrounds, including at least two police informers.

¶The large‐scale distribution of narcotics in the South Bronx and Harlem.

¶“Muscle” jobs for two organized crime family's extortion networks.

¶International gun‐running, including alleged ties to Latin American terrorists.

Citing a December 1976 report by the Drug Enforcement Administration. that speaks of the Purple Gang's “enormous capacity for’ violence” and “lack of respect for other members of organized crime,” the police say the group may at- tempt to become this region's sixth organized‐crime family. That effort, the police say, could result in a mob war.
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The enforcement administration's report asserts that one generation of criminals influenced and perpetuated a new, more violent generation: “The younger group, impressed by the antics, violence and wealth of the older traffickers began to emulate them and after a while became . . . uncontrollable . . .” The Purple Gang quickly became involved, the police said. “in the large‐scale distribution of kilos of heroin in Harlem and the Bronx.”

The activities of the Purple Gang have been closely monitored for two years by local police intelligence units as well as the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the D. E. A. This police work has not resulted in large‐scale arrests of gang members, though there have been some arrests on asault and narcotics charges.

“The problem with organized crime cases,” said a New York City police intelligence officer, “is that we know what's happening in the streets. Proving it in court of law, though, is another matter.”

Alleged members of the gang refused to be interviewed.

The Purple Gang, which has more than 30 members, according to local police reports, and 80 “associates,” according to the drug enforcement agency report, is an outgrowth of a youth gang on Pleasant Avenue in East Harlem. This gang, many of whose members were rela- tives of the neighborhood's established organized crime figures, acted as delivery men or spotters for the local narcotics traffickers, according to the report.

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In 1973, when a major law enforcement push against wholesale heroin distribution resulted in the convictions of Louis Inglese, the former drug boss of the Pleasant Avenue area, John Campopiano, and Carmine Tramunti, a highranking member of the Luchese crime family, the young members of the Purple Gang—according to the D.E.A.—moved to fill the vacancies in their local nar- cotics distribution network.
Narcotics traffic in New York is controlled by both Italian and black organized crime groups. According to one intelligence report, members of the Purple Gang were supplying the black heroin network of the recently convicted drug dealer Leroy (Nicky) Barnes with heroin for $75,000 a kilogram.

Authorities also believe that the Pleasant Avenue group served as a conduit for’ the disbursement of narcotics from this region's five organized crime families to the black groups controlling the street sale of drugs. The five local crime families, in order of size, are identified by the police as follows: Gambino, Genovese, Colombo, Bonanno/Galente, and Luchese.

The Purple Gang, while not organized in the strict hierarchical structure of traditional organized crime family, has, according to police reports, several “key” members who are either brothers or cousins.

Additionally, membership in the group appears to be limited to those who grew up in tale East Harlem area, largely young Italian‐Americans who were raised

BRIDGEWATER, April 10 (AP)— A reputed underworld lieutenant, freed from prison on a 26‐hour court‐ordered Easter furough, was shot and killed at a motel here early this morning.

John Lardiere, 68 years old, believed to be a one‐time lieutenant to Gerardo Catena, once known as New Jersey's top mobster, was found dead of gunshot wounds of the head, neck and abdomen. He was a former business agent for Teamsters Local 945 in Paterson.

Mr. Lardiere, Mr. Catena and five other reputed Cosa Nostra “bosses,” including Angelo Bruno, alleged overlord of Philadelphia and South Jersey rackets, were jailed in 1971 after refusing to testify during a State Commission of Investigation inquiry into organized crime.

The seven received frequent holiday furloughs from prison.

Mr. Lardiere was released from the Clinton Correctional Institution at 7 P.M. yesterday and was to return there by 9 P.M. today under an order issued byJudge George Schoch of Superior Court in Trenton.
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Police Chief Dix R. M. Fetzer said Mr. Lardiere had registered at the Red Bull Inn here about 2 A.M.

As Mr. Lardiere was about to enter his room in the motel's west wing, he', was shot and fell dead next to a friend's 1970 white Chevrolet, Chief Fetzer. said. He declined to identify the friend.

The reputed mobster, whose wife was killed by a massive dose of arsenic in a bottle of soda in 1974, had addresses in Newark and Maplewood.

“As far as we're concerned, his address was Clinton Correctional Institution,”said Leonard Arnold, the first assistant prosecutor of Somerset County. Mr. Lardiere had identification listing a former home at 17 Courter Avenue, Maplewood.

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The body of Mr. Lardiere, dressed in a business suit, was taken from the motel, whose restaurant and bar are a popular area night spot, to Somerset Hospital, Somerville, to await an autopsy by the State. Medical Examiner, Dr. Edwin H. Albano, or an assistant.
“He was shot three times that we know of,” Chief Fetzer said.

Mr. Arnold, overseeing the investigation, doubted that an autopsy would furnish any substantive information. “You don't have to be a physician to figure out why that man isn't living anymore,” he said.

Mr. Lardiere, Mr. Catena, Mr. Bruno and four other reputed mob chieftains were jailed under powers granted to the State Commission of Investigation to hold witnesses who refused to answer questions.

The others jailed in 1971 for refusing to testify about organized crime are Ralph Napoli of Newark; Nicodemo Scarfo of Atlantic City, an associate of Mr. Bruno; Robert Manna of Secaucus, then reputed Jersey City rackets chief, and Nicholas Russo of Trenton.

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Joseph Zicarelli preceded the seven into jail by a year.

Mr.Lardiere went to prison in August 1971 at Yardville Correctional Center.

His wife, Carolyn, drank soda from a bottle containing 50 to 70 grams of arsenic on July 2, 1972, while at a summer home in Dover Township. She drank about one‐fifth of the bottle's contents before she felt the effects of the arsenic.

Mrs. Lardiere died less than two hours later in Community Memorial Hospital, Toms River. Dr. Albano said that a dose of one tenth of a gram would kill an average person.

No clues or motive for her death have been uncovered.

The police investigation of the murder of Gino E. Gallina, a former assistant disrict attorney in Manhattan concentrated yesterday on the questioning of organized‐crime figures.

Mr. Gallina was snot to death by a lone gunman Thursday night on a street in Greenwich Village, and a 27‐year‐old woman acquaintance with him was wounded slightly. Many passers‐by witnessed the slaying. The police said they Were withholding the identity of the woman because she was a potential witness.

The police said that a number of underworld figures were prime suspects because Mr. Galling had been the lawyer of some of the alleged kingpins of crime.

“He was known to us as a mob lawyer,” a Federal prosecutor said yesterday. “We figured it would only be a matter of time before some disgruntled client would kill him. He had an extensive clientele of organized‐crime big shots.”
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The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Robort R. Fiske Jr., said last night that Mr. Gallina had visited Mr. Fiske's office at 1 St. Andrews Plaza, in Manhattan, on the day of the slaying.

Reached at his home. Mr. Fiske declared, “He was there, but he was there with a client.”

Mr. Fiske declined to identify the client or to say what business had brought Mr. Gallina to the government office only hours before his death.

Mr. Gallina, 42 years old, was ‘ shot eight times as be stepped froin his car With the woman on Carmine Street near Varick Street.

Homicide detectives denied a report that Mr. Gallina was “wired'—fitted with a radio transmitter—when found lying on the ground. Federal officials also denied a report that he had been working secretly for them.

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Mr. Gallina had worked in the Manhattan District Attorney's office from 1965 to 1969. He was named but not indicted as, a co‐conspirator in a 1975 narcotics trial in Federal Court here. A Government affidavit charged that he had been involved “in a corrupt scheme to obtain narcotics money.”
One of Mr. Gallina's clients was Frank Lucas, reputed to be a major narcotics dealer, who is now serving prison sentences totaling 70 years on two narcotics convictions.

Mr. Gallina lived with his wife and three children in Pelham Manor in West Chester County

John Cutrone, an organized crime figure with a long police record, was robbed and shot to death yesterday morning in a Brooklyn luncheonette.

One of the two assailants was masked and carried a submachine gun. Although there were other customers at the counter of Danny's Luncheonette, at 202 Avenue M in the Flatbush section, none of the others were robbed or harmed.

Detectives were trying to establish whether the 55‐year‐old victim was the target of a holdup or a casualty in a gang war.

Mr. Cutrone was said by the police to have been a former member of both the Colombo and Gallo crime “families.” Ten days ago, Anthony Pappadio, reputed head of the Luchese crime family. was shot to death on Long Island.
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This was the police account of yesterday's shooting in Brooklyn:

Pursued to His Death

There were a half‐dozen people in the luncheonette when one of the gunmen entered at 10 A.M. He ordered three doughnuts and three containers of coffee to go.

He was followed by the masked man with the machine gun, who said: “Everybody hit the floor!” All the customers obeyed except Mr. Cutrone, who started for the rear door,

The first assailant then pulled out a pistol, fired a shot into the air and followed Mr. Cutrone into the back room. Two shots rang out.

When the man returned to the front of the luncheonette, his partner asked, “Did you get it all?”

“Yeah,” the killer replied, showing a handful of money. Then the gunmen left.

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Mr. Cutrone had a record of many ar‐rests, but no convictions. He first came to police attention as a member of the Joseph Colombo family.
When Joseph Gallo and his brother Larry broke away from the Colombo family in the 1950's, Mr. Cutrone went with them as a member of their gang, the police said.

Larry Gallo and Mr. Cutrone allegedly were partners in bookmaking, policy gambling and some legitimate enterprises. Larry Gallo died of cancer a few years later; Joseph Gallo was murdered soon afterwards. Albert, the youngest of: the Gallos, took command of the gang.

Mr. Cutrone then broke with Albert Gallo and formed his own group, and a shooting war ensued in 1973 and 1974, according to the police. It ended with a peace pact.

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Mr. Cutrone and Joe and Larry Gallo were the only members of the Gallo gang who had been “made”—formally inducted into the Mafia—the police said yesterday.

They said that if Mr. Cutrone was a gang victim yesterday, the murders must have had the approval of Mafia higherups, because of his status.

Andimo (Tony Noto) Pappadio, a reputed leader of the Luchese crime family, was shot to death late Friday night outside his luxurious home in Lido Beach, L. I.

Head of Crime Family Slain L.I. By Gunmen Waiting Outside Home

The 62‐year‐old underworld figure was gunned down when he walked across the street to check on a parked automobile in which his suspected assailants were sitting.

His wife, Rose, had parked their late model Cadillac in their garage and had entered their house at 121 Eva Drive when she heard shots and saw a maroon automobile drive away. She found her husband sprawled dead in a roadway.

Nassau County detectives under Inspector George Chiminti began questioning reputed criminal associates of Mr. Pappadio yesterday in an effort to establish whether his death resulted from an internal struggle for power.
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Mr. Pappadio had long been listed by Federal authorities as a member of the crime family of the late Thomas (Three Finger Brown) Luchese, which was said to be active in bookmaking, loan sharking and labor racketeering.

In 1965, Mr. Pappadio was sentenced with another member of the Luchese family to two years in jail for refusing to answer questions before a Federal grand jury in Manhattan that was investigating organized crime.

Last summer Mr. Pappadio ‘had been one of the principals in an inquiry by Federal and Suffolk County officials into alleged efforts by criminals to control key contracts in the construction of the Suffolk Meadows quarter‐horse race track, now being completed. The investigation proved inconclusive.

The crime family led by Mr. Pappadio is said by local detectives to be small in number. Although it had previously operated mainly in the garment district of Manhattan, it is believed to have shifted much of its activity to Long Island.

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Mr. Pappadio had returned with his wife from an evening out when he was murdered Friday night. The family had two Cadillacs, and he had driven one off the driveway to permit her to put the one in which they had returned into the garage.
After parking the second car on a side driveway, he went to investigate the automobile in which his suspected assailants were sitting. His body was removed early yesterday to the Nassau County morgue in East meadow for autopsy.

A 46‐year‐old owner of a New Jersey garbage collecting company was shot to death in a midtown Manhattan parking garage yesterday in what the police called the apparent work of a professional gunman.

About two hours earlier, a 78‐year‐old woman was shot and killed in the doorway of her Valley Cottage, N. Y., home by a gunman in a passing car who the police said might have been seeking her son‐in‐law, an independent carting contractor in Rockland County.

It was unclear yesterday’ whether the two murders were related, though both had the earmarks of gangland slayings. The victim in midtown, Alfred DeNardi of 122 Smoke Rise Drive, Warren Township, was in the 20th Century Parking Garage at 320 East 48th Street, between First and Second Avenues, with a 38‐yearold woman companion at 1:30 A.M., waiting for an attendant to deliver his 1976 Cadillac, when he was shot four times.

“It looks like a hit, a rubout,” said Detective John Stewart of the Third Homicide Zone. “It looks like they came to put him away.”
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People in buildings near the garage told the police that shortly after hearing the shots they saw a man hop into the passenger side of a waiting car, which then sped off.

The police said they had been unable to obtain a full description of the car or either of the two persons in it. They said they believed that the shooting had been done with a 38‐caliber weapon.

The police said that Mr. DeNardi was carrying $150 in cash, but that there was no attempt at robbery.

Speaking of the gunman, Detective Stewart said: “The gunman races in from the street and pumps four shots'into DeNardi. Then he just turns and flees. That's all he wanted. There was no attempt at robbery.”

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The police said Mr. DeNardi's companion, who they described as “a recent acquaintance,” was unhurt. They said that they were witholding her identity during the early stages of the investigation.
Detective Stewart said it wasnot clear whether the “hit” had been carried out by members of organized crime of an independent team.

In the earlier slaying, Caroline Nadel was shot in the head about 11:30 P.M. Wednesday as she stepped onto the front porch of her Valley Cottage home. The bullet was fired from a car that sped away.

Her son‐in‐law, Natale Schet‐’ tino, who has been trying in recent months to establish an independent carting company in Rockland County, told the police that he had received threatening phone calls at home earlier Wednesday evening.

On March 2, three of Mr. Schettino's five garbage trucks were burned in two separate nighttime incidents that the police called the apparent work of an arsonist.

A reputed organized‐crime figure once charged with the murder of a restaurant owner who was a key witness in an investigation into an alleged extortion operation in Queens was found slain in the trunk of a car yesterday.

The body of the alleged crime figure, Thomas DiLio, was one of two that were found in the last two days in car trunks. The slayings were apparently unrelated.

The body of Mr. DeLio, 30 years old, of 19 Front Street in the Willamsburg section of Brooklyn, was found at 11:30 A.M. in the trunk of a 1972 Ford parked at 57th Avenue and Van Horn Street in Maspeth, Queens, the police said.

They said he had been reported missing on March 4 and had been dead for weeks. He was identified as the nephew of Pasquale Macciorole, a reputed Mafia figure.
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Along with three others, Mr. DiLio had been charged in 1972 with the gunning down of Conrad Greaves, a restaurant owner in Queens, who, at the time, was giving testimony implicating Pasquale Macciarole, among others, in an extortion scheme.

Eventually, one of the murder suspects was convicted, two were acquitted, and the charges were dropped against Mr. DiLio, the fourth.

The police said yesterday that Mr. DiLio had worked for his uncle's freight company in Jersey City and had been involved in an illegal cigarettedistribution operation. He was found dead, they said, in a car belonging to his girl friend, Elaine Noto of 51‐35 69th Street in Woodside.

The other body, found Wednesday night in the bloodstained trunk of a car in Coney Island, was identified as that of Anthony Orlando, 51 years old, of 466 77th Street in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn.

The police identified him as gambler who had about $100 and a wristwatch at the time he was found. They said that he had been roughed up and stabbed to death, and that his wife had reported him missing on March 22.

Dominick Scialo, whose partially decomposed body was found in a Brooklyn basement Wednesday evening, was slain three weeks ago by members of his own Mafia “family” because he had become impossible to handle, according to sources close to the case.

An affidavit filed Wednesday in Federal Court in Brooklyn said Mr. Scialo, reputed to have been a member of the Mafia family of Joseph A. Colombo Sr., was killed because “he had failed to follow the commands of the organization.”

The sources said that Mr. Scialo, who had a reputation for a fiery temper, had grown increasingly erratic and rebellious in recent months, demanding a bigger share of family rackets and disobeying his superiors.

Mr. Scialo, 46 years old, had been seeing a psychiatrist in Brooklyn because of problems with alcoholism and a violent temper, according to information gathered by investigators for the State Joint Legislative Committee on Crime.
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The affidavit said Mr. Scialo was killed by an underworld executioner known as “The Undertaker.”

Federal Bureau of Investigation agents found the body in a basement of Otto's Social and Athletic Club at 494 President Street in Brooklyn. The club is known as a hangout of associates of Alphonse and Carmine Persico, captains in the Colombo family.

The body of Mr. Scialo was found buried near the skeleton of a man with a bullet hole in the skull.

A Brooklyn synagogue's fund‐raising Las Vegas Nite program ended in violence early yesterday when a reputed associate of the so‐called Joey Gallo group in organized crime was killed by a shot in the head, apparently fired from outside the building.

The victim, Steve Cirillo, 31 years old, of 270 Degraw Street, Brooklyn, was believed to have been a player or spectator at gaming tables with his wife, Jo Ann. His death may have been another to stem from a struggle for control within the Gallo group of about 50 members. Since July 1 there has been one other murder and three men have been wounded.

Police records indicated that Mr. Cirillo had been arrested seven times since November, 1966, when a charge of possessing a pistol led to a misdemeanor conviction. In October, 1970, he was reported to have been accused with another man in beating another person to death on a street, but a charge of homicide was dismissed.

The police received estimates that 40 to 75 persons may have been in the basement of the Congregation B'nai Israel of Sheepshead Bay, 3007 Ocean Avenue at Jerome Avenue, at 2:10 A.M.
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The Men's Club of the Orthodox Jewish synagogue had started Saturday‐ and Sundaynight gambling programs —cards, roulette, dice — two months ago in hope of raising money for a new building.

A sound like a firecracker startled the players. Then a woman ran into the street, crying and screaming that her husband had been shot. Before policemen summoned by a call to the 911 emergency number arrived, the basement had emptied, with tables and cards strewn about. Mrs. Cirillo, 29, said she had been at a table away from her husband and had not witnessed the shooting.

Weapons Discovered

Policemen of the Avenue U precinct and detectives of the 10th Homicide Zone, commanded by Lieut. Bennie R. Pulice, found a rifle and a handgun in the synagogue's playground inside a foliage‐covered cyclone fence near a children's swimming pool.

Investigators suggested that the killer had fired either through a fence link or from inside the grounds, shooting through an open basement window at Mr. Cirillo, who was standing near a door under bright lights.

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The automobiles were towed away by the police yesterday morninng from the Jim Dente's Service Station across the street at 3010 Ocean Avenue, where they were blocking each other.
Mr. Dente said he closed his station nights at 7 o'clock and gambling customers frequently filled it with their parked cars thereafter. A 1:30 A.M. yesterday‐for the third time in two months—an oil truck was unable to deliver his 3,000‐gallon order, he said.

Despite anti‐gambling laws, Las Vegas Nites have become a fund‐raising technique for a number of Brooklyn and Queens synagogues, churches and other organizations in the last several years. Earlier this year, professional gamblers were reported trying to enter the field and offering fees to sponsors, but an official of the B'nai Israel temple insisted yesterday that his group ran its program alone.

Law enforcement officials believe the Gallo group, once a faction in the organizedcrime family headed by Joseph A. Colombo Sr., has been warring within itself over the leadership of Albert Gallo, successor to his brother, Joey, with a breakaway group led by John Cutrone.

Two men who the police said were “soldiers” in the Mafia “family” of Joseph A. Colombo Sr. were slain gangland style by shotgun blasts in the back early yesterday in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn.

The bodies were found on the sidewalk outside a bakery shop at 1729 86th Street, near Bay 16th Street. They were identified as Thomas Barbusca, 44 years old, of 19 Benedict Road, Todt Hill, and John Coiro, 35, of 113 North Pine Terrace; Annadale, both Staten Island.

They were attacked as they sat in a 1971 Buick that was registered in the name of Mr. Coiro's wife, June. Mr. Coiro apparently sought to flee the killers, the police said, because he was found face downward about 25 feet from the vehicle. Mr. Barbusca's body lay beside the automobile.

A Bid for Power?

Robbery was not the motive, the police said, since both men had money on their persons. A number of shotgun shells were recovered at the scene.
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The police said they had received undercover reports that both men had been making moves to increase their power in the Colombo family since the June 28, 1971, shooting of Mr. Colombo in Columbus Circle. Mr. Colombo has been incapacitated since then, and his replacement, Joseph Yacovelli, has not been an effective leader, since he has been in hiding from the authorities.

In April, 1971, the two men, along with Mr. Colombo and 25 others, were indicted on charges of conspiring to run a $50,000‐to‐$100,000‐a‐week numbers operation, which had its headquarters in a Bensonhurst social club. The indictment alleged that policemen were paid off to permit the operation.

It was also reported that the two had worked in a lucrative gambling operation with Dominick Scialo, a reputed “captain” in the Colombo family. Mr. Scialo has been missing since last January, when he started off on a Florida vacation, the police said.

Mr. Coiro's police record showed that he had been arrested in connection with two thefts at Staten Island stores, in one instance worth $35,000, and the other, $200,000.

Homicide detectives said that they had obtained sketchy reports from neighbors who said they heard shots. However, one commented:

“It's the usual thing in these type of killings. Nobody heard nothing and nobody saw nothing.

District Attorney Eugene Gold of Brooklyn announced the indictments of five alleged underworld members yesterday in the gangland‐style murder of two Brooklyn brothers in January, 1970.

Mr. Gold, at a news conference in his office, said that evidence developed recently had led to the indictments in the case. He said he would have “no comment whatever” on the new information.

Those indicted, each on two counts of murder, were Dominick Scialo, 47 years old, of 2323 East Fifth Street, Brooklyn; Larry Martire, 43, of 3811 Seagate Avenue, Brooklyn; Louis Millito, 32, of 552 Arlene Street, Bloomfield, S. I.; Alexander Cuomo, 35, of 1840 76th Street, Brooklyn, and Salvatore Gravano, 29, of 4572A Kings Highway, Brooklyn.

Mr. Gold said ivlr. Scialo, who has been identified as a captain in the crime “family” formerly run by Joseph A. Colombo Sr., had been involved in the sale of gold and silver with two brothers, Arthur and Joseph Dunn. The brothers owned the A & J Body and Fender Shop at 1911 Neptune Avenue, Coney Island.
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According to the indictment, Mr. Scialo accused the brothers of cheating him and, through Mr. Martire and Mr. Millito, put out a “contract” on the life of one of them.

A 60‐year‐old gambler was discovered yesterday morning shot to death from very close range, his body slumped in the back seat of his blue Cadillac, which was parked on the west drive of Central Park near 97th Street.

The shooting came less than a day after a 36‐year‐old man with Brooklyn gangland connections was gunned down as he drank alone in a bar in Borough Park, Brooklyn.

Detective sources here cautioned against speculative conclusions that the two murders signaled any renewal of underworld warfare. However, one detective at the department's organized crime control office remarked, “Any time you get two shootings of unsavory characters just a few hours apart, you have to assume it's not just a coincidence.”

Gangland Ties Reported

The intelligence division of the Police Department reported last night that a search of its files had indicated possible Mafia connections. It said the victim might have belonged to or been associated in some way with either the Mafia family once headed by the late Vito Genovese or tire family formerly run by Thomas Luchese.
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A spokesman said the records did not immediately make clear what the dead man's position had been in relation to either underworld group, but added that he did not seem to have been a ranking member in their hierarchies. Similarly, the man slain in the Brooklyn bar was identified as an underling in the Gallo gang, an often rebellious faction of the crime family headed by Joseph A. Colombo Sr.

The man whose body was found in the car was identified as Gaetano Delia of New Rochelle, N.Y. He was found at 12:30 A.M. by two patrolmen whose suspicions were aroused by the car parked on the roadway. He had been shot “more than twice” in the side of the head with a weapon whose caliber was not immediately determined.

More than $100 was found on his body, and the police discounted robbery as a possible motive.

The dead man had a record of six arrests in New York City and one in Mamaroneck, N.Y. The first arrest was in 1930 on a charge of grand larceny. The others were for policy and gambling violations, with the most recent in July, 1961. Records of possible convictions were not available yesterday.

The police in New Rochelle reported they knew little about the man. “He seemed to just live here, moving up in about 1962?” a detective lieutenant said.

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Victim Slain at Bar

The earlier gangland‐style killing in Brooklyn took place Saturday morning at a bar at 4520 11th Avenue. The police, said that a lone gunman, wearing a ski mask, entered the bar and fired 12 bullets from a 9‐mm automatic weapon, killing Anthony Careccia.
Carrecia, according to the police, was arrested four times between 1970 and 1972 on charges that included forgery, possession of stolen property and unlawful possession of currency. He was indicted in 1971 for attempting to sell two paintings by Marcel Duchamp that had been stolen from the Philadelphia Museum of Art. His conviction record also was unavailable.

Tensions were reported in the past between the Gallo and Colombo factions, but Federal law‐enforcement officials who monitor organized crime here said the slaying came at a time when those tensions seemed to be easing.

According to the officials, some of the 25 men loyal to Albert Gallo had been observed in recent weeks in the company of known Colombo associates.

The sex‐film distributor found beaten and shbt to death on Long Island Sunday had been “willing to talk” about reports of a mob take‐over of his business, an assistant Manhattan district attorney said yeserday.

The prosecutor, John Jacobs, said that in a preliminary interview, the distributor, Paul E. Rothenberg, had not challenged the assertion that “high‐level organized crime people” had forced themselves into the business as silent partners.

In another development, a high law enforcement source in Sullivan County said that Wantagh, L. I., man who was being questioned in connection with a murder case there was also being sought for questioning in the Rothenberg slaying.

The source gave his name as Michael Zaffarano, a Brooklyn restaurant operator who was said to have been a bodyguard to Joseph Bonanno, the Mafia leader.
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Mr. Zaffarano was not immediately reachable for comment, and police officials here and on Long Island said they had no information to provide.

Mob Pressure

Meanwhile, as the investigation into the slaying near Roslyn, L.I., continued, a wellplaced police official said pattern of mob pressure and violence against pornography dealers here had been detected.

“Known organized‐crime people have been frequenting distributors,” said the official, an expert in pornography investigations and operations. “That's a pretty good indication to me they're moving in lock, stock and barrel:”

The Chief of organized Crime Control for the Police Department, James Taylor, Said his office, too, had detected “this new aspect” of stepped‐up efforts by organized crime to control distributors, particularly of pornographic films.

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Mr. Jacobs also said there was information that organized crime “was cutting in like with Rothenberg” but he added there was no overall pattern of violence linking the Rothenberg slaying with recent firebombings of massage parlors.
One Man Indicted

Martin Hodes, a 42d Street peep show distributor and “massage” parlor entrepreneur, who Chief Taylor said had been “tied” to the Colombo Maffia family, was indicted July 13 with two associates in the firebombings of two of the parlors competing with one of his.

Mr. Rothenberg, 42 years old, was a partner of the Arro Film Labs at 75 Spring Street, which investigators consider the largest distributor of hard‐core 8 mm. sex films in the metropolitan area. He was found beaten and shot twice in the back of the head off Northern Boulevard Sunday morning.

Last fall, police investigators heard from informants that two men had visited Mr. Rothenberg, pointed pistols at him and informed the film distributor, that they were his new partners. According to the account, Mr. Rothenberg laughed —until they punched him in the face.

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Asked about this last spring in a telephone interview with a reporter, Mr. Rothenberg denied that the incident had happened.

However, Mr. Jacobs said he had reliable information that Mr. Rothenberg had been involved with “high‐level organized‐crime people,” among them a lieutenant in a Mafia family he declined to identify.

“There's no question someone moved in on the man,” said Mr. Jacobs, who had the case for investigation.

The questioning of Mr. Rothenberg had twice been put off by his lawyer, Mr. Jacobs said. He was due in again—and postponed it again—last Thursday or Friday.
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“I was anxious to have Rothenberg cooperate,” he said. “The people who killed him probably anticipated that too.”

Mr. Jacobs said that in a police raid of Mr. Rothenberg's film lab July 5 that netted about 9,000 reels iof pornographic films, no financial books or records were discovered to in dicate who was buying them.

“Everything Rothenberg was doing was cash,” he said, adding that without books it was impossible to trace the outflow of receipts to any partners. The Internal Revenue Service was also investigating, he said.

Mr. Jacobs also said the raid turned up subpoenas from the Securities and Exchange Commission seeking to question Mr. Rothenberg and a partner, Tony Aguila, in connection with an allegedly fraudulent stock deal.

Two men described as members of organized crime were named by the state police yesterday as suspects in the slaying of Carlo Lombardo, whose body was found alongside Route 17 near Monticello last summer.

Lombardo, who had a long arrest record and a reputation as violence‐prone, was shot two days after he reportedly tried to fire a machine gun at some guests in the Ravenite Social Club in the Little Italy section of Manhattan.

The weapon reportedly misfired. Two days later, on Aug. 10, his body was found.

Yesterday, the state police and the Sullivan County District Attorney announced that bench warrants had been issued for Peter Salanardi, 32 years old, of 32 Spring Street, and Nicholas Musolino, 21, of 163 Mott Street.

Phone Number Given

The two suspects were described as “armed and extremely dangerous.”

The police asked anyone with information on their whereabouts to call (914) 343‐1424 collect, and they promised to keep the source of the information confidential.
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The police refused to talk about a 23‐year‐old woman who was found wounded with the slain Lombardo. But there were hints that she was in police custody.

4 Shots Missed

The announcement, issued in the names of Maj. R. M. Kisor of the police and Louis B. Scheinman, the District Attorney, said both suspects had been indicted by the Sutlivan County grand jury for murder and attempted murder.

It said that the police have definitely resolved what events took place prior of the murder.”

The police declined to say what the events were, but reportedly Lombardo had run into the Ravena Club at 247 Mulberrystreet on Aug. 1 and fired four shots at a guest. The shots missed and he was thrown out.

A week later, according to the reports, he tried again with a machine gun.

Lombardo, 29 years old, was described as “a sort of a loner” and was not said to be a member of any of the socalled criminal “families.” But yesterday's announcement described him, as well as his accused slayers, as “a member of organized crime.”

A man shot fatally on a Brooklyn street on Tuesday was identified by the police yesterday as a “buddy” of a former member of the Joseph Profaci Mafia family in Brook lyn.

Federal authorities have said the Prof aci family was taken over by Joseph A. Colombo Sr., and the city police said the Brooklyn killing might be con nected with the Colombo shoot ing.

The victim, Dominick Famu lari, 44 years old, of North Bergen, N. J., was walking down a Williamsburg street near the Brooklyn Downtown Medical Center Tuesday after non, the police said, when two men in their twenties, armed with revolvers, came up behind him and shot him.

Famulari dropped dead with nine wounds in his back and head. The two assailants raced to a nearby car and were driven off by a third man. The police immediately discounted robbery as a motive because Famulari had $600 in his pocket and was wearing an ex pensive wristwatch.
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Deputy Chief Inspector Au gust W. Harms, in charge of Brooklyn North detectives, said Famulari had been arrested four times for burglary, grand larceny and gambling. He said his investigation showed that the dead man was known as a loan shark who operated in Williamsburg.

Called Friend of Franzese

He said further that Famu lari was a “buddy” of John (Sonny) Franzese, currently serving a prison sentence for bank robbery, and that Fran zese was a member of the Pro fact family.

Inspector Harms indicated that with the theories set forth by the Manhattan police that Colombo—who was said by the Justice Department to have in herited the Profaci family—was shot in an underworld power struggle, he thought it best to send the information he has gathered thus far to detec tives investigating the Colombo shooting.

Colombo was shot three times in the head shortly be fore the start of the Italian American Civil Rights League's second annual Unity Day rally on June 28 in Columbus Circle. His alleged assailant, Jerome A. Johnson, was fatally shot minutes later.

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Colombo's son Anthony, 26, vice president of the, league, has disputed the police asser tions of an underworld power struggle, contending that the police are using Italian Ameri cans in general and his father in particular as scapegoats. He repeated this at a news con ference yesterday at the league's headquarters, 635 Madison Avenue, and said the league was conducting its own investigation into his father's shooting.
He said that “we have turned up some information so far, but I'm not at liberty to say what.” He added that “when we have something which is firm, we'll turn it over to the law enforcement authorities.”

Mr. Colombo said his father, still in a coma in Roosevelt Hospital, was “out of danger and will live.” He said the prospects for his father's re covery “are better now than ever before,” adding that his father breathes each day with out the respirator that had been attached to him, and that “the infections are under con trol.”

He said he has been com municating with his father “and getting responses.” He would not say what kind, but said his father had “reacted” to news of the league's Camp Unity in the Catskills to “talk about my family” and to the “progress of the league.”

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On other aspects of the po lice theories; he said that “my father doesn't have any body guards,” when he was asked about the police assertion that Johnson was shot in a “spon taneous reaction,” possibly by a bodyguard. The police have also theorized that one of the guns found on the ground in Columbus Circle on June 28 belonged to the elder Colombo.

Mr. Colombo said, “My father doesn't carry a gun.”

Carmine Galante, the reputed organized‐crime leader, was slain in a barrage of gunfire and shotgun blasts in an apparent underworld execution yesterday afternoon as he dined on the patio of a quiet, sunlit garden in a small Brooklyn restaurant.

Two other men — a Galante bodyguard and the owner of the restaurant — also were killed. The 17‐year‐old son of the restaurateur was seriously wounded in the attack by three ski‐masked gunmen at the Joe and Mary Italian‐American Restaurant at 205 Knickerbocker Avenue in the Bushwick section.

All three of the slain men were unarmed. Caught by surprise, they were shot at point‐blank range as they sat with an unknown companion at a small table on the narrow concrete patio. The fourth diner, whose identity was being sought, was unharmed. He was said to have hurried away after the shooting, and investigators said it was not clear if he had played some role in the execution scheme.

Mr. Galante, a short, baldish, husky 69year‐old man, was blown backward by the force of a shotgun blast that struck him in the upper chest and by bullets that pierced his left eye and riddled his chest.
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Son of Restaurateur Shot

He and his bodyguard, Leonardo Coppolla, 90, who was shot in the head, died instantly. The restaurant owner, Giuseppe Turano, 48, was shot in the head and shoulder and died later en route to Wyckoff Heights Hospital; his son, John, 17, was shot twice in the back in another part of the restaurant as he ran toward the patio when the shooting there began.

The killers, believed to be underworld “hit” men fulfilling a contract, ran out, joined several armed accomplices who had acted as lookouts and sped away in two or three cars. Three stunned diners in the restaurant fled ahead of the killers, whose getaway was witnessed by storekeepers in nearby shops and neighbors gaping from the windows of three‐story tenements overlooking the street.

“I was walking down the stairs when heard sounds like cherry bombs going off,” said Lisa Santiago, whose apartment overlooks the patio. She said she had counted six blasts.

The proprietor of a business nearby, who asked not to be identified, said: “I heard a whole lot of shots. I thought it was some firecrackers. When I saw a guy with a rifle, all I did was come back in my store. I didn't want to get shot.”

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“There was no warning whatsoever,” said one police officer. “They just walked in calmly and began shooting.”
Indicative of the surprise with which the killers struck, a cigar Mr. Galante was puffing when the barrage erupted was still clenched In his teeth when the police arrived at the blood‐spattered patio.

Near the three sprawled and bloody victims, a half‐finished lettuce and tomato salad, some rolls, a peach and half‐finished carafe of red wine were still standing atop the floral‐pattern oilcloth on the table.

The patio was littered with double‐O buckshot, a large‐size shotgun pellet, and a number of .45‐caliber shell casings. The police said shotguns had definitely been used in the attack, but they said they were unsure whether the bullets had been fired from pistols or automatic rifles.

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Law‐enforcement sources said that Mr. Galante, whom many authorities considered one of the most powerful organized crime figures in the nation, had been marked for a gangland slaying for a year or more because of his alleged aspirations to succeed the late Carlo Gambino. The body of Carmine Galante lay behind an overturned chair, at right, as a police photographer recorded the scene terday in the backyard of the Joe and Mary Italian‐American Restaurant on Knickerbocker Avenue in Brooklyn. the underworld ‘figure once known as “the boss of all bosses.”

Lieut. Remo Franceshini, the head of the Queens District Attorney's detective squad and former head of the Police Department's organized‐crime squad, said he believed Mr. Galante had been executed on orders from a rival for power in the underworld, Frank Tieri, who is described by law‐enforcement authorities as the head of a crime “family” organized by the late Vito Genovese.

Mr. Galante, who had served 12 years in prison on a narcotics charge and an additional 17 months for parole violation, had been free on $50,000 bail since March 23 pending a parole hearing. He has been described by the police as the head of the 200‐member crime “family” formerly headed by Joseph Bonanno.

Apartment in Little Italy

The owner of a dry‐cleaning shop in Little Italy, Mr. Galante lived officially in an apartment at 160 Waverly Place in Greenwich Village, but law‐enforcement sources said he had lived for years with woman friend at 155 East 38th Street. The superintendent of the Waverly Place building said that in the eight years he had worked there he had never seen Mr. Galante.
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The shooting yesterday was the most sensational underworld slaying in New York since Joseph Gallo was gunned down on April 7, 1972, in a restaurant in Little Italy.

The slayings yesterday occurred at 2:50 P.M., according to accounts provided by the police and eyewitnesses in nearby shops and tenements on the block, Knickerbocker Avenue between Jefferson and Troutman Streets in a predominantly Italian and Hispanic section.

Although various witnesses were believed to have seen portions of what happened, many were reluctant to talk about the slayings and there were conflicting accounts about how many assassins were involved and how many cars they used. At least five; and perhaps seven or more. men, were involved, authorities said, although only three were believed to have fired the fusillade of fatal shots.

The police said the slaying had been carried out with swift precision. By one account, two men used a black Cadillac limousine to block off traffic on nearby Jefferson Street, apparently to insure smooth getaway, while five others pulled up outside the restaurant in one or two cars, variously described as a blue Mercury and a gray late‐model car.

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Deputy Inspector Martin Hayes said that three gunmen entered the restaurant while two others stayed at the front door, standing lookout and waving guns at passers‐by.

Only three customers, in addition to Mr. Galante and his companions, were dining in the restaurant, which is the width of two storefronts and has two indoor dining rooms, one behind the other, in addition to the outdoor patio in the rear. Yellow curtains hung across the front windows and just inside the door hung a picture of “The Last Supper.”

In the first room, the killers encountered John Turano, a Grover Cleveland High School student who has often worked at the restaurant, standing behind a counter and talking on a telephone. They ordered him to hang up and hurried toward the back, passing the mother and a 16‐year‐old daughter of the owner and cook‐counterman. In the second dining room, cloaked with brown wallpaper, they passed and ignored three diners at table and rushed out onto the patio.
Open Fire at Close Range

There, Mr. Galante, carrying $860 in cash and wearing blue slacks and a white, short‐sleeved shirt open at the neck, was seated with Mr. Cappolla, Mr. Turano and the unidentified diner in a modest but pastoral setting. Grape vines hung near the dining table and tomato plants sprouted from a small patch of ground nearby. Chest‐high wire fences separated the patio from adjacent backyards.

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The gunmen opened fire from a range of less than six feet, the police said.

Mr. Galante, struck in the eye and chest, was hurled backward onto the patio and fell on his back, his left arm slung across his chest and his right hand at his belt. A short black cigar protruded from his mouth, and blood streaked his face.

Half of Mr. Cappolla's face was blown away by a shotgun blast, the police said, and he also died instantly. Mr. Turano had part of the right side of his head and his right shoulder blown off, according to a witness in the hospital emergency room where he was pronounced dead.

'They Got My Father’

As the shooting on the patio erupted, the police said, Mr. Turano's son, ignoring the gunmen's warnings to stay put, began running toward the garden and was shot in the back twice, either by lookout man at the front or by the departing killers, who raced out and sped away.

A neighbor several doors away said he ran into the restaurant after the killers fled and found the wounded teen‐ager. “He shouted to me, ‘They got my father! They got my father!’ I looked at him and saw he had a big bullet hole in his side.”

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A blue Mercury believed used by the killers was found abandoned later in the afternoon at Ingraham Street and Gardner Avenue in a nearby factory district.

Other neighbors said that Mr. Turano's wife and daughter were in Italy on vacation and that Mr. Turano had planned to leave this weekend to join them. The police said they were told Mr. Galante had gone to the restaurant to have a “bon voyage” luncheon with the owner.
After the shooting, crowds gathered in Knickerbocker Avenue, a narrow, twoway street lined with three‐ and fourstory brick and shingle buildings with small shops on the ground floor and tenement apartments upstairs. A pizza parlor and a lawyer's office flank Joe and Mary's Restaurant.

While the neighborhood is somewhat rundown, the block on which the killings took place is in a portion of Bushwick that has remained fairly stable. Arson and decay have ravaged much of the Bushwick area in recent years, however.

3 More Gangland Killings Bring Total to 6 in 5 Days

Two more men were slain in gangland style here yesterday a few hours before a cortege of black Cadillacs escorted the body of Joseph Gallo, the murdered Mafia chieftain, to his grave in Brooklyn.

Early this morning, the ;police announced that yet another man had been found slain in gangland style. This victim, whose body was discovered at 10:30 last night in an automobile in the Sheepshead Bay section of Brooklyn, was still not identified at 3 o'clock this morning.

The two victims who were identified were Gennaro Ciprio, who was killed outside his restaurant in the Bath Beach section of Brooklyn, and Frank Ferriano. a New Jersey laundryman, whose 340‐pound body was found in a lower West Side parking lot.

Both men had arrest records, both had been shot in the head, and both were found with large sums of money in their pockets. The police said this showed the motive for their murders was revenge, not robbery.
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“Perhaps we're getting a rash of Mafia killings, like you get a rash of hijackings or bombings.” said Deputy Police Commissioner Robert Daley, “but there's no indication yet that these guys are related to the Gallo killing.”

The unidentified man found last night was in a parking lot in front of 2800 Coyle Street with a number of bullet wounds one of them in the back of his head, according to the police. They said they had been led to his body by an anonymous male caller who had telephoned the Brooklyn homicide squad and said, “If you are interested in the Gallo case, go to the parking lot at 2800 Coyle Street.”

Police sources said the victim was fuly clothed, wearing an expensive watch and carrying less than $50 in cash. The police said he had been beaten before he was shot.

The head of the Federal anticrime strike force in Brooklyn, Denis Dillon, said that Ciprio was an associate of Gallo's chief rival, Joseph A. Colombo Sr. But he said Ciprio was not a member of the Colombo Mafia organization.

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Early in the day some police officials said that Ciprio fit the description of Gallo's unknown killer, who was in his 40's and had a bald spot in front. But later the police said Ciprio was in his 30's and had a full head of lustrous black hair.
There was no immediate comment about the deaths from Police Commissioner Patrick V. Murphy or Chief of Detectives Albert A. Seedman. They spent yesterday attending a convention of police chiefs in the New York Hilton.

Gallo, who was known as Crazy Joe, was killed early Friday as he was celebrating his 43d birthday in a Mulberry Street restaurant one block south of Police Headquarters. Two lesser gangland figures, Bruno Carnevale and Thomas Edwards, were assassinated on Thursday.

As of yesterday evening, the police had made only one arrest in the latest killings. They charged Gallo's bodyguard, Peter Diapoulas, with illegal possession of a handgun after he was wounded in the Millberry Street shooting.

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A $5,000 Bronze Coffin

Diapoulas winced from the pain of his hip wound as he took a scat in one of 13 rented limousines that followed the hearse bearing Gallo's $5,000 bronze coffin to its burial site in Greenwood Cemetery.

High police officials said there were no mourners from the Colombo or Gambino clans —two Mafia families that have long competed with the Gallo family.

“This’ is‐surprising, and it could indicate a lack of esteem,” one Mafia expert said. Others said it reflected tension in the underworld in the wake of Gallo's death.

Carlo Gambino, the so‐called “boss‐of bosses” in the Mafia, was questioned by the police last summer after the near fatal shooting of Joseph A. Colombo, head of the Colombo clan. So was Joseph Gallo.
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Since then Gambino has avoided the limelight, and a police spokesman declined to say whether he had been questioned again about Gallo's murder.

Opponents of the Gallo family are known to have passed out cigars in the Colombo‐dominated section. of Brooklyn after Gallo was killed. And cemetery attendants said Gallo family members had asked to have a tent put up beside the grave yesterday, shielding them from the view of police cameramen or persons who might wish them ill.

About 50 mourners—the men in black coats, the women in furp and shawls—took places in and around the tent as two priests performed a brief graveside service.

Reached at Brooklyn diocesan headquarters, an aide to Bishop Francis J. Mugavero said that in past years the policy was that obsequies for persons whose lives had been touched by scandal should be “as private as possible.” But in recent years, he said, the policy has been somewhat relaxed.

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As the priests led the mourners in the Lord's Prayer, Gallo's sister, Mrs. Carmella Fiorello, fainted. One priest fell silent, in dismay, but the mourners prayed on as a relative held Mrs. Fiorello in place on her chair.

Gallo's surviving brother, Albert, was impassive and so was Gallo's widow, Sina, who was wearing dark glasses.

She held the hand of her 10‐year‐old daughter by an earlier marriage. The little girl had been in the Mulberry Street restaurant when Gallo was killed” and she had laid roses in his coffin with a ribbon marked “Love, Lisa.”
Mother Breaks Down

After the service, Gallo's mother, Mrs. Mary Gallo, hurled herself on the gilded coffin, sobbing: “My. baby, my son.” She was carried gently off to her Cadillac.

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Other mourners — including Jerry Orbach, the actor, and his wife — filed past, placing individual flowers on the bronze coffin, which was marked “Joseph Gallo.”

Then they drove away, leaving the hillside gravesite empty, except for green‐clad gravediggers and a group of Federal and local law‐enforcement officials who looked on from a little distance, beyond a budding tree.

Cemetery attendants said the officials had filmed the occasion from a panel truck. High police officials refused to comment, but one said: “Of course, this kind of funeral has been big deal for us, ever since Prohibition days.”

Mr. Daley said there was “cautious optimism” among the police over their chances for solving the Gallo slaying. He said that some of the more than a dozen witnesses who had been in the restaurant were cooperating and that some were not.

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Fingerprints Found

He declined to say what, if any, clues had stemmed from fingerprints found at the murder scene.

Speaking of the two men found dead earlier yesterday, Mr. Daley said, “There's no question these guys have criminal connections going back years.” Ciprio had been arrested eight times, and Mr. Ferriano only once—on a concealed weapons charge in 1958.
Ciprio was shot as he left his restaurant at 2:45 A.M. He fell, face down, and was later found to be carrying $1,300 and a.38caliber pistol.

Mr. Ferriano was wearing work clothes when his body was found, lying face up, behind a shack in the parking lot at 41 Dominick Street. He was unarmed but was carrying $100 in bills.

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“He Was a big guy, built like a wrestler,” said.a truck driver, Ed Duer, who saw the corDte. It took eight policemen to lift it into an ambulance.

Commissioner Daley said the police investigation would now spread to New Jersey, since Mr. Ferriano had lived there. And speaking of both murders, Mr. Daley said: “They, may be just people settling private scores.”

Eboli Is 15th Gangland Victim in Year

July 17, 1972


The slaying of Thomas Eboli early yesterday in Brooklyn was at least the 15th ganglandstyle murder in New York City since Joseph A. Colombo Sr. was wounded and incapacitated in the early moments of the Italian‐American civil rights rally he had organized in Columbus Circle on June 28, 1971.

Three men were gunned down during the remainder of 1971. This spring, more shootings took place in the underworld just before and after Joseph Gallo, a rival Mafia chieftain of Colombo's, was slain in a clam house in the Little Italy section of Manhattan while celebrating his 43d birthday.

Following are the names of the victims and the dates and circumstances of their murders:

Dominick Famulari, 44 years old, was shot nine times in the back and the head on July 21, 1971, while he was walking along a street in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. Famulari, who lived in North Bergen, New Jersey, was identified as a close friend of former member of the Profaci Mafia family that was later taken over by Colombo.

Dominick DeAngelis, 46, was found dead of three bullet wounds in his head on November 5, 1971, on 54th Street near Seventh Avenue in Brooklyn. DeAngelis, who was identified by fingerprints, had a police record dating to an arrest in 1947 on auto‐theft charges in Westchester County.
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Bruno Latini was found dead on Christmas Eve, 1971, with three shots in his head, in his car in a parking lot four blocks from his bar at Eighth Avenue near 52d Street in Manhattan. The police found $500 and a .38‐calibre pistol in Latini's pockets,

Thomas Edwards, who also was known as Thomas Ernst, was shot to death April 6 on the porch of the home of his father‐in‐law, Johnny (Dee) D'Alessio — a prominent name in the underworld — at 151 Jumel Street in Staten Island. At his death, Edwards was awaiting trial on charges of criminal possession and conspiracy to steal $70,000 in securities.

Bruno Carnevale, identified by District Attorney Thomas J. Mackell of Queens as a “soldier” in the Gambino family, was shot at close range with a shotgun as he walked near his home at 224‐15 Braddock Avenue in Queens Village. The police found $14,000 in his pockets. The shooting also took place April 6, only a few hours before Edwards was slain.

Gallo was gunned down early the next morning, April 7, minutes after he arrived at Umberto's Clam House at 129 Mulberry Street after he, his wife, and some friends had spent the night drinking champagne at the Copacabana.

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Gennaro Ciprio, who reportedly had been with Colombo when he was shot, was murdered three days later as he left his restaurant in the Bath Street section of Brooklyn.
Richard Grossman, identified as a hanger‐on in the Colombo family and a specialist in auto and credit cards theft, was found the same day, shot in the head in the trunk of an abandoned car in the Sheepshead Bay section of Brooklyn.

Frank Ferriano, a laundryman from Elizabeth, New Jersey, was found, slain, also on April 10, behind a shack at a parking lot at 41 Dominick Street in Manhattan. He had been shot several times.

William Della Russo, 26, who had been at/rested previously on narcotics and burglary charges, was found dead on April 15 outside a crowded bar in Brooklyn, 10 blocks from Ciprio's restaurant. He had been shot three times in the chest.

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David Wolosky, also known as David Kaye, was found dead —the victim of a chest wound —outside the Beth Israel Hospital at 16th Street and First Avenue on April 19.

Rosario Stabile, a 35‐year‐old father of four and a dispatcher for a Queens truck firm, was found shot in a car near Prospect Park the next day.

Victor Pearson, 36, of 130‐38 146th Street, Jamaica, Queens, was shot six times in the head and neck nine days later. His body also was left in a car, which the police found in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn.

Alfred Bianco, a contractor and a second cousin of Gallo's, was shot in the head at close range on May 2 at a luncheonette in Sheepshead Bay that the police said was frequented by Mafiosi. Authorities said, however, that he didn't have police record.

Mr. Bianco's slaying was the last with suspected underworld overtones until Eboli was shot.

Excellent newspaper coverage of mob hits.

Good thread, I remember many of these hits being reported as I was growing up. Sometimes you could just be in the wrong place at the wrong time and you see the wrong thing and the next thing you know, it's you they're talking about. I have great memories of NYC from the Seventies but it was a drug filled, crime ridden, violent place and time and definitely had an impact on who I became as an adult.

Damn, that was awesome. Thanks

Yeah that was some mighty fine reading

Nice Info....Stuff that slips through the cracks

Now do an “Organized Crime Murders 2010’s”

Your welcome guys. Gonna be posting the 80s soon...