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Perfect in Shooting CATANIA, Sicily, Aug. 5 (UP) {—Vito Grasso, 26, began a 26year prison sentence today for shooting his teacher to death after he failed an examination.

Gang Slugs Kill King Of South Chicago Policy

Slayers Leave Anderson Man {~ 7 Half-Blinded Killer

Roe’s Body p : i re Ll; ets New Trial On FBI's ‘Hit Parade In the Gutter : hil

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5~The By United Press

FBI today added IL.eonard Joseph CHICAGO, Aug. 5 "Theodor (Bad Eye) Zalutsky, a half-blind » RY — e@ } (Teddy) Roe, the king of a huge convicted murderer with a weird gambling ring on Chicago's South Side, was shot down in the gutter last night by gangland guns, and his empire was up for grabs. No one knew who would mount the throne and take over. the 54-year-old kingpin's lucrative operations. But the hgmicide squad 10 really wants would wait and watch. : vill do a little Roe was murdered in front of 1 his ‘home, Two shotgun blasts : hit him in the chest and another h blew a hole in the right side of Nome.

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Irregularities in selecting a grand jury won a new trial : today for an Anderson bar-

tender convicted of secondlegree murder, The Indiana Supreme Court Na og : vesterday voided the indictment | against Walter R. Rudd, sen- _ NGA, NS MORE ~The: tenced for shooting to death John odore ( e y) oe, 1C4g0 S 1 ondon, Anderson, in 1949. The South Side policy boss, who was high court reversed the Madison slain in a gutter in front of his County Circuit Court conviction. : “Statutory provisions were disregarded concerning the selection : -

sense of humor, to its list of "10 most wanted” criminals, Zalutsky, under life sentence for the murder of a Miami, Fla, policeman has been at large since Sept, 3, 1951, when he escaped from the state prison at Raiford, Fla. It was his fourth successful prison break. He replaced bank robber Jeorge Arthur Heroux on the “10 most wanted" list, Heroux was picked up in Miami, Fla. on July

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his neck. He never had a chance to draw his own pistol. The millionaire was the undisputed king of the policy racket, about the only kind of gambling still thriving strongly in Chicago since the Kefauver crime investigation and the federal gambling stamp law.

Costello Spars For More Time

(of - grand jury) and placing of | °

names in the jury box,” the Su- |

preme Court declared.

Errors Cited Other errors in picking the grand jury included improper security provisions for keeping the grand jury box locked, the draw-

25. However, the FRI list is still not up to full strength; a replacement is needed for Gerhard Ar ® (thur Puff who was caught after i a wild gun battle=in New York July 26. : Thinks It's Funny

The FBI said Zalutsky's ideas)

HAVE YOU SEEN HIM?— Leonard Joseph Zalutsky,

in his pocket which made a good |

prop in front of a group of peop.e.| about comedy are limited to thd; ya would pretend his eye was| use or Lie grin) eve. At one pothering him, then quickly slip : : J J time, he carried a spare around the false eye from his pocket and! were jealous of Roe’s rich take BY mited Fresn |clared. iL — throw it to the Roig the| from the policy wheels. Once NEw YORK, Aug. 5—Freedom| Although there was. “no bad . FBI sald, became his “standard” | three men: tried to kidnap him, necame a fleeting thing today for | faith, fraud or corruption,” the 3 PEL ; s “stands but Roe managed to whip out his prank (The Boss) Costello, errors were substantial enough to oman a S ero S 0 mi S Nevertheless. FBI agents warn own gun and shoot his way {ree.| The overlord of the underworld reverse Budd's conviction, the Su- that Zalutsky can be vicious and A syndicate hoodlum, Leonard hag only three more days to enjoy |Preme Court said. cold blooded. They point to his

: eo oo " (Fat Lenny) Caifano, was Killed the comforts of his apart { The court ted that Clerk of * ’ : B a ! § 8s. apartment » court note a 3 recent escape as an example, in that gunfight. facing Central Park, his Sands Court Charles C. Harrold and| VICI e escue oax 00 Ing um ro oi away oe after

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It has long been known that gangsters. from the West Side

|ing of names for jury service and {the calling of persons for grand

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: : {jury duty, the high court de- : . San Teasony For Freedom THE 'VICTIM'—She says he ‘saved’ her for political publicity. aft, wants to 1ign. Top Re-

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mpment of the 1 Train, 84th ar 1 Veterans, at Shakamak asonville.

Roe’s body was found in the Point estate and the fine restau-|Jury Commissioner Ray Houston Mining Mah gutter by Park District Patrol- rants he frequents. y | (flinging lighted gasoline bombs at man Wayne Williams. Police; On Friday, €ostello has a date commissioner, — Vernet

were Republicans, The other jury the tower guards. They started a

By United Press ately be located either at his ; ; Turner, A 14-year-old East Side boy

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5--May- home in nearby Falls Church, {tremendous fire, . could find no eyewitnesses to the with the U. S. marshal. was-a. Democrat; (nard H. (Snuffy) Smith, who has|ya or at the store. His wife said last night told police how he RT He Bt in he Pr slaying, but several people, in-\ Unless Costello's $2000 bail is| Mr. Turner didn’t have a key Dis ups and downs as a hero,|she did not believe the rescue was: Nis 9-year-old playmate and wait-|, 5504 the wife of the prison dencluding the gambler’'s wife, heard continued the marshal will escort to the jury box, as required. The | faced arrest today for the “bravely, hoax and she had never heard * nearly eight ous before ist and forced her at knife point the shots. : his 61-year-old charge to the|key was held by Mr. Harrold. deed” which made him the toast/y;. gmith mention wanting to telling anyone of the death. _\to fles with them. She was later Joseph Turner, 45, a filling sta- privacy of a prison cell to serve| : of the capital last week. |run for governor Joe Frederick Perdue, 2518 ,4ja35ed unharmed. tion operator, told officers he had an ‘18-month term for contempt | Commissioner Absent False-alarm charges were] > |Eastern Ave, was brought into; His Identification seen a gray auto with two men|of the Senate Crime Tvestg ating) The court also found that Mr.|lodged against the Medal of Hon-| Calls it ‘Fantastic’ [police headquarters at 10:30 p.m.| z4utsky, who has been quoted in it cruise back and forth near Committee, Turner was not present, and had or winner after a bereaved young Roland M. Bennett, 27, a fel- bY his father. as saying he will never be taken Roe's home before ‘the shooting. U.S. District Attorney Myles J. not been notified, when on Mar. mother, whom he “rescued” from Jow-employee of Mr, Smith, who Four hours earlier, the family a)jve, is 37, of medium height and Mr. Turner said the men had Lane set the date yesterday in a|28, 1949, the grand jury was|a sixth-floor window ledge Thurs- was named by Mrs, Whomble as of Dennis Wayne Barker, 2522|phujld. He has dark hair, his good finally parked in an empty lot letter to Costello's attorneys, drawn for April term. Rudd was day, confessed that her attempted go-between in the fake suicide Eastern Ave, had found the boy's eye fs blue. The left one is quite behind a billboard. George Wolf and Kenneth M. indicted in April. suicide was just an elaborate arrangement, termed her story Pody propped up against a tree noticeably artificial. His arms are Empty shotgun shells and tire Spence. The name of one prospective hoax. “fantastic and completely false.” Near their home. decorated by several tatoos and marks were discovered behind! Mr. Wolf, however, was said juror, Walter Stohler, was drawn| Mrs. Ernestine Lucille Whom-\ a. grin was busted from , \t Ppolice headquarters, Joehe has scars on the back of his the sign. to be in Washington making a second. But he wasn’t called and Ple, 21, said she was offered $500| 0 coant to private on AWOL told detectives he and Dennis had |left hand and over his right eye‘I Was Scared’ last-ditch effort to stay execu- didn't serve, the court found, |l0 fake the jump because Mr. [been boxing in his back vard yes-|hrow.

charges onl few weeks er| ~The slain gambler's wife, Mary, tion of the mandate which would, Rudd had pleaded not guilty.on Smith wanted publicity to PI ro reins highest. ‘mi. |1erday afternoon while their par-| In the past, Zalutsky has gone heard the shots and flung open a send Costello to jail for the first/grounds of self-defense. {mote himself for goyernor of Vir-\,...v qacoration jn World War 11}°0is Were-away, (under the aliases of Frank Beck, window. time since 1915 when he was put; Rudd testified he bounced Mr, 8inia. ; {for risking his life to put out a| They went into his house, Joe Frank Beckwith, L.eonard Mason, “Teddy, Teddy, is that you?” behind bars for carrying a pistol London from an Elks Club bar,| Assistant Corporation Counsel sald, and he found a 20-guage Leonard Mavis, Leonard Matey,

: fire aboard a B-17 bomber aboard she screamed. When she heard illegally. gi then was wounded by a shotgun | Clark King promptly issued a t mp shotgun in the bathroom. Joe said |and John Savitsky.

| 3 | { When Snuffy broke into the] 3 . I. ato, she Samed he wi. te7ce and An oma S00 08 iis was ening. tn ci, ie 0, OITEE AT FORCE TSO o0 pepalies again, In To4T, i, was PA10%0 {0 8 0 Dennis ow shut and called police. 0 anwser, on Mar.|q.; ; ry) aus $ $ . Ful The D said he went to Mr. London’s;, the police. Conviction on the| for Pleading guilty to charges ofl ,, gy, 01q looked at. It, AMBASSADOR Your ten dollars to CARE

‘I was scared,” she told offi- 15, 1951, certain questions popped i : »ddling a fake sex cers. “I couldnt go out. We by the crime committee at its Deon ig TATA eiean tne|charge carries a penalty of $300 DE AOTTORE| ther, passed it back to Joe, young both have been scared to death sensational televised hearings jy. chotoun. fine or 10 days In jail, or both. |. "Who were assured it would|Perdue sald. The gun suddenly since Caifano was killed.” that sent Sen. Estes Kefauver (D. Re Denies 1t Waa Fake restore their “vigor.” He drew a/Went off, blasting Dennis in the HY mak Roe may have been killed to Tenn.), its chairman, on a futile! . Mr. Smith told the Washington g, snqed sentence for that one, Side of the neck, Joe said. o Wid MAS you avenge the shooting of Caifano, Guest for the presidency of the McCarthy Recuperating Post Mrs. Whomble may be suf-iynan the court took cognizance Frightened, Joe told the detec hs? ¥ one of the over who was an underling of Tony United States. From Two O ti fering “from hallucinations of ,¢ hic war record. tives he dragged the hody out by | ten million ambassadors who Accardo, top man in the local| Costello, who became known perations |grandeur.” He firmly denied the [the garage and propped it against have sent CARE packages syndicate. as “Faceless Frank” because he. WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 (UP)— suicide attempt was a hoax and _ . la tree, to the needy people overseas. On June 18, 1951, three men Permitted only his hands to be Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R. Wis.) (said he never had. ‘seen or met” Nickel Beer a Hit; | He sald he returned to the | Nothing does more to lift the tried to kidnap him, Roe saiq, televised, was convicted on Apr. 4, planned to leave for Wisconsin | Mrs. Whomble before attempting! - |house, wiped the blood from the spirits of th 1 1951, on 10 counts of contempt. today to te I 'to drag her in off the sixth floor 10 Have a Long Run | : SPs of the POPIS Oversea The gambler had been warned by | ‘ y recuperate from two. rag no e six floor floor, burned the spent shell cas- than a CARE package sent but good! = . an associate, Wendell (Cat Eyes) rr Yr {major operations. ledge. 7 | MANDAN, N, D.,. Aug. 5 (UP) |ing and replaced thé gun where he b A a P wh 8 Sizes 14 to 20 : { Lyons, and was armed. He req Dodged Politics | Sen. McCarthy - was released “If this girl was making an act,| —The nickel beer is here to stay. had found it. y an American who wants {i 4.45 five shots from the hip and] MILWAUKEE, Aug. 5 (UP)—|yesterday from the Bethesda [she should be in Hollywood,” he| Tavernkeeper Joe Wetzstein| About 6p. m. Mrs. Ownie Bark- to be an ambassador of hope || y Caifano fell dead. {Officials of the Wisconsin Marine|(Md.) Naval Medical Center, said. [featured a 5-cent beer during a er, 59, the dead boy's grandmoth- and freedom. (2 Roe was charged with murder, Corps League said .yesterday|Which he entered on July 13 for| Mr. Smith, who works as a recent three-day local celebration. er, started searching for him. She Won't you be an ambassador today? Published by The Indianapolis Times as a public service in co-operation with The Advertising Council

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oN but the charges were later|that delegates attendng the or-|operations on sinus and hernia salesman in a Washington radio- Business boomed. found the body about a half-hour dropped. For a time police in- ganization’s annual state conven. (conditions. TV store, said it was “ridiculous”| Mr, Wetzstein said today the later. vestigated the possibility that a|tion Sunday “tried to keep out| His office said the Senator to say he was running: for gover- special price will be continued] After hearing Joe's tale, defec “city policeman, serving as Roe’s of politics” when they failed to(plans a few weeks of “rest and nor because he just recently dajly between 3 and 6 p. m. He's tives released the youth fo his personal bodyguard, had fired the act on a resolution commending recuperation.” His aids said the moved into Virginia. afraid it would hurt business to father until an investigation could hs f shot which killed Caifano. Sen. Joseph McCarthy. {Senator is ‘coming along fine.” Mr. Smith could not immedi- up the price again. he held in the case today. $50 for Nickel ti ce

When Roe testified to Sen. Estes Kefauver (D. Tenn.) during| the congressional crime commit-| tee hearing here, he spoke fréely on the hope that federal author-| ities would leave him alone. That may have offended fellow gang-| sters. 3 ! Roe admitted to Mr. Kefauver

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