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Show UNION OFFICIAL SHOT TO DEATH NEW YORK, Oct t 'UP) Sara Gappel. labor union official, wae aasaaainaud early today, nine hour after a gunman bad critically wounded Man Rubin, a union agent who reportedly helped "put the finger on" Mu Silverman, "labor rarketeer No. 1." Rubin was shot Just before Slhrer-man Slhrer-man arrived here by airplane from Loa Angeles to face prosecution en enough extortion and comprise counta to send him to prison for 110 years. Killed at Time Cappel was killed at almost th same moment that Silverman was being fingerprinted and placed la a cell a' police headquarters, j Mrs. Gappel was waiting far her , husband to return home from a union meeting at 1 a m. when she heard two shots. 8h found his body In th hallway. Gappel was treasurer of th Painters and Paper-1 he nrfrs' union, local eel. Polic aaid dissension la th rank of Gappel'a union might explain his asaaasination. Special Prosecutor Thomaa E. Iwey refused to speculate specu-late on whether there waa any connection con-nection between It and his investigation investi-gation of tabor union rackets. It was learned, howe r. that he had one lubpenaed the records of the union and that he waa convinced i that he had driven the racketeer out of It Trailed Fran Hem Rubin, who acted aa agent for local lo-cal 240 of th Cloak Driver and Helper' union, was shot by a man who trailed him home from a subway sub-way station in an automobile. When District Attorney Sylvester Ryan asked who shot him. Rubin replied: -Ask Mr. Dewey." It waa aaid that Rubin had appeared ap-peared before Dewey on four occasion occa-sion to (iv Information against Silverman, who returned her voluntarily vol-untarily after detective had found him In California. |