Show fX-C fX AD AN WIFE MURDERED NEW YORK March 20 AP- AP Several gangsters battered their way into the armor plated home of Sam Sacco in Astoria today and S Sacco and the wife he had married last r after completing ing a prison term for murder Apparently Sacco had known ho he was walking In n the shadow ot of death tor for ht he ha wad sheathed the door of 01 his apartment walla heavy pIeces of ofIr Ir iron n and had c equipped It with wILh strong stron bolls boils But the gangsters smashed the thedoor thedoor door down while Sacco and his wife were still In bed and opened fire Sacco died with hit his gun Jun in his hand liand His nis wife was killed as shein she shela la lay tn in bed Police believed the tho shooting was the underworld taking the of hands against one law Into its own thing himself himself him him- who had done the same samo self years ears ago In 1911 Sacco's brother Joseph Continued on page paJe 5 I CONVICT EX-CONVICT AND WIFE MURDERED Continued from page 1 1 De Lucea was killed A man named was arrested and questioned C but finally released release But Dut SaccO would not accept the decision that De Dc Lucca was Innocent De Dc Lucca was as and Sacco was given twenty years for s con cond l degree murder With good behavior allowance be completed his time last summer summer and shortly after regainIng his freedom ise he married and took tho apartment In Astoria lie He took toole all possible precautions a against possible revenge lining h J Joor door so FO that bullets could not pene- pene It ani nd the tha locks s sto to withstand assault And he be kept hl his gun un hand handy But nil his precautions were In vain aln The armo almo plated door went batterIng and down before n a terrific acco dil died l under a t. t storm of bullets bul- bul lets iota that t led police to believe t machine ma- ma chine gun have been used than pistols NEW POSSIBILITY Although at first police were convInced that the double slaying ica wall the result or of hIs us killIng kUling ot of De Dc DeLucca Lucca Investigation ot of his prison record soon suggested another P pos pos- 3 I Last ast summer It was learned Sacco Upped tipped or off the authorities at Sing Sing that tha other convicts were planning a break for liberty As t result or of hIs the prIson bre break lt was To protect him from reprisal It was kept a s secret cret that Sacco had Informed on the convicts who had isad planned to escaPe but Ise he was suspected bus sus- b by his fellows and when he was Ieh released he was a man m marked for death NEW a w March 20 United Press Press James 28 was shot allot to death by an unidentified standing in In a ho waR VaS nearby doorway shortly before S Sa a a. a m. m was vas shot while talking with companions II ill front of a L restaurant In Greenwich Village Tiree bullets struck Dono Dono- lo 10 Tue assassin escaped and li vl In a en fl 1 to a hospital |