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The Boston Globe from Boston, Massachusetts • 13

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The Boston Globei
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Thirteen riving Wilmington GirPs Car THE BOSTON DAILY GLOBE THURSDAY, JUNE 19. 1938 1 fleuim cliatd Cmmm Hi Was Siain Near Area Where Brink's Money Was Found -iff I our new fashion center has been transformed into a floral paradise during our week-long -covered $57,000 in mouldy Brink's bills. In November of 1956, month after eight Brink's par BUCCELLl Continued from the First Page i Buccelli's arrest in the ticipants were sentenced to life imprisonment, Buccelli and fl LO ower his alleged accomplice. Ben Brink's case came in the Spring of 1956 after police nett, were convicted of receiv ing stolen money. Buccelli was given two years in the House of Correction and Ben nett received a one-year term.

Caller Told Police of Crash i 3 The first police learned of arrangement see more than 100 breathtaking displays! the Buccelli death came about as a result of a telephone call irom an unidentified witness who reported the auto acci dent. Buccelli was found slumped beneath the dashboard. A small FRIDAY bottle of medicine was found on the front seat but this, it was learned, belonged to a friend of the slain man. FASHION SHOW 2 P.M. "FLOWER GARDEN PRINTS" Police said a blood-smeared sheet was found in the car.

The key was in the ignition. The front of the car was jammed beneath the rear of the trailer truck owned by the I TREMONT ST. BASEMENT OFFICE yhere part of the Brink's loot was found, causing arrest of today's murder victim, "Fats" Buccelli, and another man. SON AWAITS SENTENCE Robert F. Buccelli, who is in Dedham jail sentencing in Medford armed robbery.

raided the B. P. contracting company office a little basement office at 617 Tremont st. in the South End and un- Friday, American Moulding Co. The truck driver, Jerry Zara, of Irvirigton, N.J., was asleep in a hotel nearby.

Buccelli's present address was not known. His friend told'the Globe he had "gotten a room some place" for the time being until he could become reconciled with his wife, Elizabeth, from whom he was 11:30 a.m. Miss 1 1 Fujiola: "Japanes Flower Friday, 2:30 p.m. and Saturday, 11:30 a.m. Mr.

Rene Landry (Cor-ham Artificial Flowers): "Artificial Flower Ar rangements." ill LIEGE, Belgium, June 19 (Reuters) Andrea Di Carlo, a 29-year-old Sicilian who bit a lump out of his Belgian girl friend's cheek during a quarrel, was sentenced yesterday to 14 months and eight days in jail. "In Sicily it is a mark of affection," he told the court. JORDAN'S NEW FASHION CENTER SEVENTH FLOOR NEW BUILDING divorced. Elizabeth, the friend said, was supposed to meet Buccelli today at her home, 92 Dakota st. Expert Watch and Clock JV iff 'W fUcf III Son in Jail The couple had two sons, Robert F.

21, now in Dedham jail awaiting sentence for an armed robbery in Medford, and Repair Service 5 DAY WATCH REPAIR John F. 16, believed to be attending school in Waltham. Robert was involved in the famous "terror" robbery at the uAv. if ri.c:.i. jjinroiM ciiipiwiy NEW ENGLAND'S LARGEST STORE Sensational GRILL SALE During vacation leave YOUR SILVER to be expertty RELATED REPAIRED STERLING r-toret to original brightness Pick up in the fail Medford -in January, 1957.

This is the same crime in which the now acid-blinded convict, Sal- vatore Mesiti, was also involved. Mesiti was blinded and horribly disfigured' from an acid I nam in nis ceil ai me waipoie JORDAN'S REPAIR SERVICE WAIN FLOOR 0 024 Washington A Summer St. BOSTON STORE btate rrison last October. Young Robert turned state witness at the trial and told how he was forced into the robbery by Mesiti and William A. OFF 150 Dickson, of Roxbury, another (Globe Staff photo by Tom O'Connor) MURDER CAR Chrysler Imperial, registered to Joyce Poirier, Lake Wilmington, in which "Fats" Buccelli was slain this of the participants.

Robert revealed that his life had been threatened several days after the robbery by Mesiti and Dickson, who took him for a "ride," taped his two men with a small pickup truck were at her Lake-st hands together and put a gun house helping her move her up his head, accusing him furniture and personal effects of giving out information on (Jmtam PROTECTS EVEN AFTER SWIMMING Bronzf an the DeSisto robbery. Neither of the two men was Buccelli, according to Tewksbury police sergeant Sam SUPER DELUXE BRAZIER with Hood, Rotisserie, Spit, Motor Smith who had gone to see the Poirier woman in connection with her complaint that her landlord had threatened her. In view of what happened to Mesiti at Walpole and the threat to young Robert Buccelli police today are inclined to believe the murder of Buccelli's father might be a revenge slaying by someone who wanted to harm the son. The window on the driver's Smith said he learned that Usually. 39.95 jrfJtMftitfA'r Shulton by the landlord did not threaten her, but simply notified her she would have to pay the back rent or get out.

98 side, of the expensive car in The sergeant said the Poirier which Buccelli met his violent 19 woman is the mother of four children, ranging in age from death was smashed to pieces. Police said this was not the 2 to 8, At one time she worked result of the crackup, but ap as a waitress in a restaurant in Boston's theatrical district. parently was the work of the slayer. A gun seized from two men Buccelli was a big heavv man who until about a year arrested after a stolen car chase ago had weighed over 300 today in Beverly was turned pounds. He had gone on a diet during the past year, a friend revealed, and had shed about Get set for a summer of easy entertaining.

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Pay 3 July, Vi August, Vt September 100 pounds. Poirier Woman Evicted over to isosion aeiecuves investigating the slaying of John F. (Fats) Buccelli. Beverly police said that gun, a revolver, contained but four rounds of ammunition. When it was stolen from a Beverly store several weeks ago it was fully loaded, officers said.

Boston police ballisticians In Tewksbury, police said that the Poirier woman had MURDER. SPOT Intersection of Tremont and Chandler South End" (circled), where car containing John F. Buccelli crashed truck. been evicted from her home last week because she owed four months' rent. They said they did not know where she examined the gun to determine had gone, but that last Sunday'if it was linked to the murder.

Aluminized Wagon Grill with Hood, Electric Rotisserie, Spit Buccelli 8th Man to Die Since Brink's Robbery 98 Usually 39.95 19 1 The million-dollar Brink's and it is considered a virtual certainty by police that he was slam, robbery continues to bring violent death to those connected with it. Elmer "Trigger" Burke, the New York gunman who fired a machine gun burst at O'Keefe John F. "Fats" Buccelli, in June, 1954, died in the elec Cook eomplett meal in this grill! Roomy storaga shall. Reflector hood maintains uniform heat, protects fire from wind. Removable fire box for dumping ashes.

Electric motor rotates spit to insure coolring throughout. Detachable hood for easy cleaning. found slain this morning, was the latest in a long line of vic trie chair at Sing Sing last tims who have met bloody January, BRINK'S ROBBERY LOOT, totalling $57,000, which caused Buccelli's arrest in 1956, was wrapped in newspapers and plastic bags and packed in picnic cooler in South End office. death since the $1,219,000 rob bery on Jan. 17, 1950.

Two years after the big score Burke, of course, was not involved as a participant or accessory in the Brink's case, but he became involved when he permitted himself to be hired Carlton M. O'Brien was ambushed and slain in front of Lotion, giant size (unbreakable plastic container) 1.25 New! cream (unbreakable plastic tube) l.OO dIui tax Subdues burning rays, promote! a smooth, even bronie fan. Contains no greasy oils to stain your suit, and won't stick. Safe even for a baby's delicate skin. Phone your order: HUb-feard 2-2700, ELiot 4-300O er mail to Box 191, Boston, Mass.

Please add 25c for delivery charge on orders totalling less than 3.95. his home in West Warwick, by the gang to rub out O'Keefe, just 72 hours after he had SPORTING GOODS THIRD FLOOR STORE FOR MEN D-820 Boston Framingham Maiden Free delivery anywhere in New England on purchases totaling $100 or more! On pur-chases totaling less than $100, free delivery in Massachusetts east of and including Worcester. Outside this area there will be a delivery charge. Catholic Congress Set for Week-End In June, 1956, William Cam been named as one of the "masterminds" of the Brink's plunder. The annual New England as well as the election of a new slate of officers.

Peggy Nichols of Milton, outstanding Catholic youth of 1957, will give the keynote address at the opening session. Bishop Robert Joyce of Burlington will celebrate the congress mass Sunday and preside at the closing dinner Sunday afternoon. Then in 1954 George D. Youth Congress will be held O'Brien (no relation), of Dor Jordan Marsh Company, Box 101, Boston 1, in Bennington, Vt, on Satur chester, who had been sus eron, a Dorchester longshoreman, was murdered in a South Boston parking lot, and police said he was killed because he had reportedly given the FBI some information on the Brink's case. Two of the original participants in the big holdup died before the trial.

One was Joseph Banfield of Charlestown; 6-820 Please send me the following: pected in the Brink's case and had been acquitted in Federal Court of the $681,000 armored day and Sunday at the Bennington Catholic High School. Delegates from the 11 Catholic dioceses will participate. Quan. Item Price car larceny in Danvers, was MAIL THIS COUPON TODAY OR PHONE HUbbari 2-2700 SUBURBANITES: Call ELiot 4-3000 Ecatur 2-2700; BLuehills 8-9800; NOrmandy 5-S300; WOburn 2-3000; TRinity WAIker 2-3613; LYnn 8-5310 Pioneer 5-1600 Jinx Rides Backs The four voting delegates from this area are Pres. Edmund found shot to death in his car in Franklin Park.

the other Stanley Gusciora of; Madden, Vice Pres; Anita Giar- ()f Ci Stouehton. Banfield died of rhiiin ers O'Brien's death was officially cahy and Treas. Edmund Shee- listed as a suicide, but most veteran police investigators natural causes and Gusciora of a brain tumor. The latter was disagree with this verdict. Nme Several months later in the WESTPORT, June 19 (UPI) Bad luck continues to pursue defeated gubernatorial candidates of Tuesday's Republican state convention.

J. Kenneth Bradley had a han of the Boston Council of Catholic Youth. A candidate for New England vice president is Miss Giardullo of the Star of the Sea parish, East Boston. The congress includes a workshop and panel discus JORDAN'8 TOILETRIES STREET FLOOR CORNER OF WASHINGTON AND SUMMER D-300 BOSTON FRAMINGHAM MALDEN serving time in a Pennsylvania jail at the time of his death. Eight of the defendants are now serving life terms at Walpole.

O'Keefe, the state witness, is in the East Cambridge jail. He has not yet been sen- Summer of 1954 Johnny Carlson, South End bookie and close friend of Brink's participant Joseph J. "Specky" CHARGE TO MY ACCT. NO.j OR I ENCLOSE A CHECK OR M. O.

SEND CHARGE ACCOUNT APPLICATION nat tire a lew nours after a barn owned by John Alsop Keefe, disappeared. Zone- -State. Carlson has never been found tenced sions on timely teen-age topics in Avon burned.

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