GANG'S TOLL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 38, 14 February 1931, Page 3 (Supplement)

GANG'S TOLL.

WOMAN MACHINE-GUNNED,

FUSILLADE IN PUBLIC STREET,

As she walked out of her Brooklyn home on her way to church, Mre. Eugenia Esposito was riddled by bullets from a machine gun. Three gangsters had been waiting for her in a motor car, their machine gun ready. Mrs. Esposito's estranged husband has been detained for questioning, but denies all knowledge of the shooting. The dead woman was only 22, and the mother of two children. The body of another gangster's victim, Dominic Tetta, was found under the stairs of a tenement house. He had been "taken for a ride" after leaving a dance at a cousin's house. Glass beads spilled on the floor near the body suggested that a woman was present when lie was shot. Tetta was a victim of the Sicilian vendetta now going on in the underworld of New York. Another murdered man, discovered by two aviators flying near Hicksville, Long Island, was identified as a burglar, released recently after serving a term at Sing Sing. A boy of 19 was taken for a ride in a car along the River Front and stabbed in the neck. Police in 1 Brooklyn have captured 16 reputed bandits. During last year there were 360 killings in New York, but a number of these represent shootings of desperate criminals by police in street duels.