GANG’S TOLL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21266, 21 February 1931, Page 23

GANG’S TOLL.

FUSSILADE IN PUBLIC STREET. As she walked out of her Brooklyn home on her way to church, Airs Eugenia Esposito was riddled with bullets from a machine gun. Three gangsters had been waiting lor her in a motor ear, their machine gun ready. Airs 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. Ho had been “ taken for a ride ” after leaving a dance at a cousin’s house. Glass heads spilled on the floor near the body suggested that a woman was present when ho was shot. Tetta was a victim of the Sicilian vendetta now going on in the underworld of New York. Another murdered mana, discovered by two aviators flying near Hicksville, Long Island, was identified as a burglar released recently after serving a term at Sing Sing. A hoy of 19 was taken for a ride in a car along the River Front and stabbed in the neck. Police in Brooklyn have captured 16 reputed bandits. During last year there were 360 killings in New York, but a number of these represent shorrings of desperate criminals by police in street duels.