GRIM MURDER RECORD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20620, 19 July 1930, Page 2 (Supplement)

GRIM MURDER RECORD.

FIVE IN ONE DAY.

UNDERGROUND FEUD.

GANGSTERS AND " SQUEALERS.'

Underworld gangsters in New York created a record of murder for any American city, except Chicago, on May 18, by

killing five men, alleged to bo "squealers," and seriously wounding another. There have been a number of " squealifigs" to tho police lately about New York's gangster plots, and racketeer leaders are believed to havo grown uneasy, and to havo ordered their henchmen to enforco the law of silence bv imposing death penalties on persons suspected of rrjvjng away information. ° New, secret methods of keeping racketeers and gunmen under surveillance havo been recently adopted by New York police, against which the underworld is now Irving to protect itself by terrorising " stoof pigeons" or decoys, and by strict observance of Chicago's underworld " code of honour," under which there has been only one Chicago " squealer" in recent years. " Tho fn ■st man murdered on May 18 was Paul Gallo, a real estate dealer and plumber, of Mulberry Street, in New York's underworld Bowery district. He

was shot when entering his West Street house early in tho morning, accompanied bv his brother-in-law, Albert Peppi. A small sedan motor-car swung alongside the pavement while Gallo was putting his key in (he door, and a man fired four shots. Gallo fell, ■ mortally wounded. Some hours afterwards Anthony Eiterone and Salvatore Sazalino, two notorious managers of the underworld, were found dead together at Brooklyn, with bullets in their bodies. A sedan motor-car answering to the description of the one used in the murder of Gallo was seen at the j,pot a short time before the bodies were found, and the police believed that Elterone and Sazalino were " taken for a ride," or killed in tho motor-car. The bodies were thrown out, and all identification marks were removed, but the police identified them through fingerprints, both having police records. The fourth victim. Jack Yalenti, was also " taken for a ride," but the police have only a vague description of the motorcar. Yalenti's body was found dumped at the foot of a wall in the Unionville section of Brooklyn, with four bullets in the head. Christo de Oro, an underworld dealer in lottery tickets, was tho fifth victim, being

shot dead shortly aftor arriving in New York from Norfolk, Virginia.

Benjamin Schnite, with no address, whose affairs are not known, was hovering between life and death in (Jouverneur Hospital, aftor nearly becoming the sixth victim of the " murder racket."

Schnite was visiting his wife at her father's apartment, in the underworld section, and, while whistling from the street to attract her attention in an upper window, he wns mysteriously shot in the neck with three bullets, and fell unconscious.