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The Salt Lake Tribune, Saturday, March 12, 1960 wy'Vj Death Claims Widow of Mario Lanza 1 1 1 fc T' '4. a-yi4 jt 4s 4 5- 4 -i -1- tm ft 5M vc AihcIiU4 Freu Wireift Grant Cooper, defense attorney for Dr. B. I room awaiting: serdiet by jury deliberating Bernard Finch, sits In almost empty court- the fate of U-S. Briefs.) Cobalt Pills Research America at a Glance Urge to Kill Shoots 2 Jury Indicts Policeman In Robbery Chicaco TrJbun Srvlc CHICAGO, March 11 A Chicago policeman was indicted by a federal grand jury Friday for aiding four robbers and sharing the loot they took from a savings and loan association.

THE GRAND Jury action disclosed the bizarre relationship of James Shannon, a 27-year-old policeman, and four boyhood chums turned bank robbers. Donald S. "Mannion, an assistant United States attorney, told reporters that Shannon helped the gunmen after the daring daylight robbery last Aug. 11 of the Almira Savings and Loan Assn, in which $9,200 was taken. MANNION SAID Shannon, then a judo instructor in the police training jschool.

helped the four men assemble after the robbery, shared in the division of the loot, and twice sought to cover their tracks In one instance, Mannion said Shannon interceded in behalf of one of the gunmen caught in a brush with police. THE ROBBERS were iden tified as Louis E. Antonuccl, 24; Harold E. Gilbert, 25, and Donald B. Goldie and Edward Jordan, both serving time in Illinois state prison for other crimes.

The four men pleaded guilty to the savings and loan robbery earlier this week and are awaiting sentencing in Federal District Court ACCORDING to the government, the four gunmen drove to Gilberts home in northwest' Chicago after the robbery. Then Goldie and An-tonucci drove to the South Side, evading a road block established by police. Gjlbert and Jordan remained at Gilberts home. On the South Side, Goldie and Antonucci met Shannon. At their request, he drove to Gilbert's home and picked up Gilbert and Jordan Then the five men met in a South Side tavern owned by Shannons father.

Mannion said the gunmen divided the loot in the basement of the tavern in Shannons presence. ON AUG. 12, the day after the robbery, Gilbert and Antonucci left for Florida, later going to Havana, Cuba. EU' bert left behind his white sports car for the use of Goldie and Jordaif. On the night of Aug.

13, Goldie and Jordan drove to jhe Shannon saloon, parking the car on a slight incline in the street. While the two were drink Ing, the car began to roll down the street and struck a parked car. The owner of the parked car called police. While police were on the way, the two robbers, joined by two other saloon patrons, threatened to beat the owner of the parked car. BEVERLY HILLSTCADf; March 11 (UPI) The widow of the late Mario Larfza, never fully recovered from the shock of the death of the famed singer, was found dead Friday in a bedroom of her home.

A DOCTOR said Mrs. Betty Lanza, 37, apparently died of natural causes. She had been dead several hours when her body was found, police said. Asphyxiation was- believed the cause of death. The doctor said the fact that it was difficult to administer oxygen and there was an obstruction to the flow of oxygen led to the conclusion Mrs.

Lanza was asphyxiated. The coroner's office also listed the tentative cause of death as "asphyxiation. An autopsy will be conducted to determine exact cause of deaths The body of the 37 year-old mother was found about 3.30 pm. Friday by Anna Maria FattorL-. governess of the four Lanza children, and Joe Toth, a business associate of Mrs.

Lanzas brother, Bert Hicks. Mrs. Lanza was overcome with grief when the singer died Oct. 7 at Rome, and never fully recovered from the shock and the strain of going through thre public funerals here, in Philadelphia and in Rome. JHtoS FATTORI, who called for an emergency squad in a futile attempt to revive Mrs.

Lanza, said the singers widow asked Thursday for a massage because she had trouble breathing. However, Mrs. Lanza had never before told anyone of such a difficulty, Miss Fattori said. Dr. Morris Wilbume, who examined the body, said Mrs.

Lanza was lying on her bed. She was dressed in pajamas. The door was locked, but the physician said this was not unusual. Mrs. Lanza had lived in the home for more than three months.

It is a rented house iiv the exclusive Beverly Hills residential area, belonging to actor Fred Clark and his wife, Bea Benadaret. Three of the four Lanza children were in school when Mrs. Lanza was found. TO TRY CARDEN INSURANCE FERTILIZERS It It Iht very ktit kind I Itrtlllnr ytt mm pet-libly vim. 100 lbs.

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The maximum cost for cobalt is $5 per curie, pr $18,000 for this shipment RADIUM, however, would last 1,600 years, while alt has an effective life of five years. NOW IS THE TIME Youth With By Associated Press SAFFORD, March li Explaining he just had an urge to kill someone, the 15 year-old son of an Air Force sergeant Friday admitted slay ing two Mexican farm workers with repeated rifle shots. Young Donald St. Johns was seized in Safford when he tried to trade the death weapon for gasoline to run a car owned by one of the victims. SHERIFF Skeet Bowman said that, within an hour after the bodies were found near the 2nd Week Begins LOS ANGELES, March 11 (UPI) The Finch-Tregoff murder trial jury went into a second week of deliberations Fire Ladder Topples With Laddies PHILADELPHIA, March 11 (AP) An 85 foot aenel ladder, poised over a burning church, collapsed Friday, carrying two firemen to the church yard.

CAPT. ROBERT Rainsford, 45, and ladderman Thomas Gleason, 47, were pitched off after the falling ladder wedged against the side of the build ing, narrowly missing the flames. Rainsford was hospitalized with head injuries. Gleason and two others the firemen operating the ladder from the ground, and one who had just started up, suffered cuts and bruises. them briefly and, then, "open ing up with 16 shots from his .22 rifle.

ONE OF the victims, Manuel Trejuda Zamudio, about 40, had been shot once in the left side, twice in the back, once the thigh and once in the heart. Porfiro Casas, about 30, was shot in the neck, head and back. Officers said St. Johns, the son of Sgt. and Mrs.

St. Johns of Williams AFB, fixed the time of the slayings at about lam. Gets Threat Call BRADENTOWN, March 11 (AP) Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelts life was threatened by an anonymous telephone caller Friday night shortly before she addressed a Democratic party rally here.

A MAN CALLED the desk of the Holiday Inn Yacht Club where the rally was held, said he was going to kill Mrs. Roosevelt and state Sen. Ed Price of Bradenton and then hung up. Blast Rips House CULVER CITY, CALIF, March 11 (UPI) An explo sion Friday blew off the front of an eight unit apart ment house, injuring an esti mated 15 persons, many of them children, police reported. INVESTIGATORS dug through the rubble of the house and reported the blast apparently was caused by natural gas in the builhing.

BROWS BLOOMING fUT FLAIRS mam gate of Williams Air Force Base Friday, the youth told of shooting the men, taking a few dollais fiom their pockets and fleeing in their car. Sheriffs Sgts. Lester Jones and Tom Kirkham quoted the boy as saying: "I just had the urge to kill someone. The officers said St. Johns told of meeting the men on the bank of an irrigation canal early Friday, of talking with for Finch Jury Friday with no sign it was even near a verdict THE COURTROOM was al most filled with spectators in anticipation of the jurors coming in Friday, and a crowd of more than 200 assembled on the sidewalk as Dr.

R. Bernard Finch and Carole TfegtXIf game out of the courthouse en route to lunch in jail. After deliberating until 5 they were locked up They resume their study of the evidence Saturday. Only one or two were smiling Friday in contrast to almost gay behavior early in the week. The belief was growing that this may be a hung jury on at least one defendant, resulting in another entire trial Finch, 42, and Miss Tregoff, 23, are accused of murder and conspiracy to hnurder in the July 18, 1959, shooting of the surgeon's wife, Barbara Jean.

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Defense Atty. Robert Fu-gazi said Motherwell is a con man but insisted a con man will take her money, but not kill for it "A con man is not a man of violence, Fugazi said. If the victim is not recep tive, then the con man moves on, because a found the corner he knows 1 there is another sucker. The state has proved this! that Motherwell is No. 1, a liar; No.

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