AMAZING MURDER.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20360, 18 July 1934, Page 5

AMAZING MURDER.

Victim Survived First Four Attempts. THREE MEN ELECTROCUTED. NEW YORK, June 12. Three men, who committed one of the most remarkable murders in history, were electrocuted in Sing Sing prison. They were: Frank Pasqua. 26; Anthony Marine. 27; and Daniel Kreisberg. 29. They -were convicted of murdering Michael Malloy, a “ rum-soaked derelict,” after 4 Marino and Kreisberg had conceived the idea cf insuring his life for £357. First .they plied Malloy with large quantities of liquor, hoping he would drinl-c. himself to death in a short time. Then they tried wood alcohol a poisonous' liquor that killed its hundreds during the Prohibition regime. It did not poison Malloy. He drank it eagerly. Determined to carry out their plan, they went to Frank Pasqua, a young undertaker, and put their problem before him. Pasqua suggested that the best way was for Malloy to get “ accidentally ” nun over by a motor car while he was drunk, and then the body could be delivered to his undertaker’s establishment. Once again Malloy was made drunk, and the gang took him into the street. There Harry Green, a, tari-cab driver, who had been brought into the plot, drove down on him. Malloy staggered aside, but the cab ran over him. Just to “ make sure ” Green reversed his cab and ran over the victim again, and he was left lying in the street. Shredded Tin. A few weeks later Malloy dumbfounded the. pl6tfers by walking into Marino’s “ speakeasy ” and asking for whisky. Then they tried to poison Malloy. They gave him sardines, including the tin. They cut the tin into shreds to mix with the sardines. Malloy asked lor more. The gang .changed Malloy’s

diet to oysters, pickled in wood alcohol. Malloy ate them all. At this stage the plotters got so desperate that they stole Malloy’s identity papers, put them in the pocket of another “ down and out,” and got him run over. But he also recovered. Returning to Malloy, they made him drunk once more, took him out on a freezing winter night, unbuttoned his shirt, poured water over him, and left him to freeze to death on a park bench. Next day Malloy walked into the “ speakeasy ” again and said- to Malloy: “Give me a few goes of that good liquor.” It was not-to cure a cold, for Malloy 'did not even have that. The “man they could not kill” had beaten them again. The last stage was that the plotters rented a furnished room, made Malloy drunk once more, and took him there. There they killed him by forcing a gas tube into his mouth. Their victim was dead at last. The gang did not even bury him decently, tor Malloy went to a pauper’s grave. .. The taxi-cab driver got only £4 out of the insurance money. Pasqua, the undertaker, got £l3. Kreisberg £lO. and a bar-tender £l2.