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'DAILY' NENVS. SATURDAY, OCTOBER '261557 MA sirs Reprisal for Shooting Of Costello Seen By Anthony Marino and Sidney Kline K. i i "i i 1 I i. mx i i i. sl III.

I Albert Anastasia, 55, burly, beetling Lord High Executioner of the old Murder Inc. mob, was shot to death yesterday by hired killers of his own kind in the Park Sheraton Hotel, Seventh Ave. and 55th St. He thus met a fate he feared and one he earnestly hoped would not be the lot of his family. Professional gunmen took his life in the same hotel, then called the Park Central, in which gambler Arnold Rothstein was slain a generation ago.

Why? Those who should know said it was because Anastasia ordered the shooting of gambling czar Frank Costello last May 2. With the bungling of that assasina-tion attempt' hese underworld intimates said, Anastasia knew that his own life was forfeit. Worried Most for Wife and Son More than his own life, Anastasia dreaded that his wife and his son, Albert 22, might be killed in revenge for the attack on Costello, a good friend of Anastasia told The News. That friend said that Anastasia ordered Costello killed because Costello was seeking a bigger share of the take in the policy racket and bigtime dice games that Anastasia was running. And, said the same source.

Anastasia increased the number of his own bodyguards from one to three and put guards over ihs wife and son after Costello es- l.v Krl Tony Anastasia (center) is accompanied by a relative and a det-tie as he arrive at th hotel barber shop to view'his brother" body. v. IP 4 when shot the foyer of his apartment house at 115 Central Park West last May. The News, source said he met Anastasia at the Jamaica Racetrack only last Saturday. "You look tired.

Al," the friend recalled saying. "What's the matter?" Anastasia, indeed did look worn, worried and years older than six months earlier, the friend reported. Told of His Worry The friend said Anastasia dis-spiritedly ripped up a handful of $100 tickets on losing horses and said: "I don't care what they do me but I'm worried about my family." "What do you mean?" the friend asked. "Forget about it. forget about Anastasia replied.

Then he walked off. Confirmation that the Anastasia household was fearful of an assassination came yesterday morning- from the handyman at the family's palatial home in Fort Lee, N. That estate, incidentally, is surrounded by a 10-foot-high metal link fence topped r. i 1 1. 4 TV 1 i i by barbed wire, and the grounds are guarded by two unfriendly Doberman Pinscher dogs, kept chained when the family is around.

Which One, He Asks A News reporter approached the entrance gate, summoned the handyman and asked to see Mrs. Anastasia. "What for?" the employe demanded. "Anastasia has been the reporter said. "Which one?" demanded the handyman.

"Albert." "Father or son?" "I think it's the father." The handyman looked impassively at the caller, replied that Mrs. Anastasia shopping, said the caller could not come in and went on with his chores. Mrs. Anastasia, it was established later, had been home at the time and remained there all day. Widow Collapses Advised of her husband's murder, she collapsed and was put under sedation.

The official police theory on Anastasia's slaying was that he was attempting to "take over the mob," but those in the know inclined to discount As the police put it, Anastasia had always ranked high in the criminal hierarchy but never had been the top man. They said he sought to capitalize recently on Costello's troubles with the government, attempted to don the leader's mantle, and put himself on the executioner's block in so doing. Death struck down the notorious killer at 10:20 A. M. in chair 4 of the barber shop owned by Arthur Grasso and Anastasia had a few seconds of life in which to learn that 'he was to die from the guns of hired killers, the breed of men with whom he made his own fortune.

A Bouncer in the Trade Anastasia was what is known in the barber trade as a bouncer, a man who patronized one shop, then another. One of the shops was Grasso's and his favorite barber there was Joseph Bocchino. At 10:18 A. M. he greeted Grasso and, Bocchino and sat down in a chair from which he could look out the window onto 55th St.

and Seventh Ave. Anastasia ordered a shave and and a haircut. His gray hat, blue topcoat and the jacket of his The remains of Albert Anastasia are carried from the hotVl baiWr -hop in a body bc. brown suit hung nearby. Also in the shop were four other customers, four larlers.

including the boss, a manicurist and twj bootblacks. Barber Starts to Clip Bocchino tucked the customary tissue around Anastasia's neck, wrapped on a protective sheet and started to clip the back of rl I I 4 -it- '7 tively. To slug r-pped throucH it. the irun so that it left powder burns. A third bullet tore irto hii left hip.

He rose frorn the chair, stumbled toward chsuf No. 3. Fourth in the Head Tie fourth bullet crashed int the back of hi head. Anastasia fell dead on hii back between Chairs 2 and 3. The killers, satisfied that their job wai done, walked rapidly from the barber shop through the door and Tanished.

In the shop, there were ariei reaction. The customers fled. The manicurist screamed ani slumped into a chair. Some ol (Continued pmf chairs from the lobby and walWJ directly to Chair No. 4.

Thy were at Anastasia's back. Ti.e notorious killer had made a classic mistake of the hunted by leaving his back to a door. 5-10 and Shorter 'One gunman was about the other a bit shorter. One wore a pea cap. Both had dark scarves masking the lower part of their faces.

One man strode to the left of Anastasia and pushed aside Bocchino with the muzzle of his gun. The other killer strode to Anastasia's right. Both began shooting. Anastasia, in his last minute of life, had time to glance around and start to rise. He raised his left hand protec Anastasia head.

The barber shop has two entrances. One is from a corridor off the 55th St. side of the hotel ahnd is connected to the shop by a sjniall foyer. The other entrance is from the hotel lobby. The gunmen opened the door foti Albert Anailaiii Thm and, too, warn violent irom the lobby, walked around a artition which screens the shop's.