Salt Lake Telegram | 1940-03-28 | Page 2 | Probers Balk Gang Slayings

PROBERS BALK GANG SLA YINGS NEW YORK. March 28 0 District Dis-trict Attorney William ODwyer disclosed Thundsy thst gunmen seeking to silence two prize Informers Inform-ers In the Investigation of Murder, Inc., Intended to assassinate them In their Manhattan hotel hideaway. hide-away. The Kings county prosecutor said the mobsters had taken a room directly across the courtyard well from the quarters where Abraham (Pretty Boy) Levlne and Tony (the Duke Mstfetore had been sequestered seques-tered for questioning, and planned to shoot them through the window. Spirited Away O'Dwyer withheld further details de-tails of the plot, adding only that Levlne and Maffetore, whose wagging wag-ging tongues originally "broke" the rase against the death on the dotted lino syndicate, had been removed re-moved to another hide-away. The widening scope of the case now far and away the biggest mast murder Investigation In New York criminal annals was emphasized with the disclosure that 330 detectives detec-tives have been assigned to help O Dwyer track down members of the crime syndicate. The reinforcements required a shifting of the detective force of the entire city. In addition, O Dwyer moved, tcjake overthe. entire floor of the Kings county courthouse to handle this aingle phase of his activities. Other Developmenta Other awift breaking developmenta develop-menta In tha Investigation included: in-cluded: 1. Charles (Lucky) Luciano, convicted white alaver, now serving 30 to SO years in prison, was linked directly with the slaying of a narcotics nar-cotics peddler In Nassau county. 2. Frank Galluccio, the gangster whose knife carved the underworld trademark on the face of "Scar-face" "Scar-face" AI Capons in a dance hall brawl in 1923, was arrested for questioning. 3. Pennsylvania state police and Scranton, Pa., authorities reopened the Investigation of three unsolved gsng slayings in an effort to connect con-nect them with Brooklyns Murder, Mur-der, Inc. 4. fnew Jersey authorities traced the murder gun in the alaylng of T. Norman Redwood, Teaneck, N. J., aandhog union leader, to the Brooklyn alaughter syndicate.