Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-07-23 | Page 5 | Chicago Cafe Man Killed in Vendetta War

tHI CHICAGO AGO CAFE CAff CAffMAN MAN KILLED I IN VENDETTA WAR W Wealthy Owner of Two Roadhouses in Suburbs Shot From D Darkness ss MURDERERS ESCAPE f r Bullets That Killed Two Ion on June 2 Thought Though In- In n. n j I tended for Late Victim I CHICAGO July 23 3 3 AP AP From From the he shadows of his own cafe four blocks loCkS from a police s station atlon booze gangsters or vendetta sla slayers late ate fast st night poured out a hail o of lead that hat took the life of Philip Piazza wealthy owner of two roadhouses Il in Chicago Heights a suburb K The killers believed to have been t four ur or more moreS were in an automobile automo automo- bile and after firing a It fusillade into the body of the cafe owner who may have been marked for death as the result of two other slayings in th the suburb they disappeared disappeared disappeared in the darkness Piazza Plazza was known to the police poUce as the ruler of the underworld in Chicago Heights and andas was as repute t J IP o be the payoff man for scores of alcohol cookers It was in one of his cafes that pl prohibition agents several months ago discovered one of f the l largest stills on record at atthe atthe atthe the same time seizing gallons gallons gal gal- lons ions of alcohol and 1000 gallons of vine wine An audit of his books showed that he had an organization of several several several sev sev- eral hundred men on weekly sal sal- aries ries T On June Juno 2 Mrs IrR Crystal Barrier and Giralmo Lamberta the latter a wealthy wealth jeweler of the suburb were shot and killed and another woman wounded in the Derby Inn a ro roadhouse road road- d- d house houe owned by Piazza and it was believed ed that the bullets were Intended in intended intended in- in tended for the cafe owner While police were inclined to believe the booze racket lay behind the slayIng slaying slay slay- ing they were canvassing the possibility possibility possibility pos pos- that last nights night's attack was wasEn wasn In En n retaliation for the killing of Lamberta on the theor theory that the Jewelers Jeweler's death was a double-cross double engineered by Piazza Piazza was under indictment in connection with his alcohol Chicago Heights like Cicero i recently became the refuge of gangsters gangsters gangsters gang gang- driven from Chicago and the Milano cafe in front of which Pi Piazza Piazza Pi- Pi azza was slain was known as one of their favorite haunts The suburb suburb suburb sub sub- urb is southeast of Chicago I. I I