Feb. 7, 1970


CRANSTON, R.I., Feb. 6 (AP) —Louis J. Taglianetti, said by the police to be an underworld figure, and a woman companion were found shot to death tonight at the bottom of a flight of steps leading to Broad Street apartment house.

Taglianetti, 67 years old, was under an indictment for the slaying in 1962 of underworld enforcer, John Jackie Nazarian.

Taglianetti was shot as he left the building and the woman, identified by the police as Elizabeth McKenna, a resi dent of the building was shot when she ran after him, the police theorized.