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mVw i'ww1 i i The Boston Globe Tuesday, January 26, 1965 RmtiiiinnnniminniimniiiiiiiiimiiuM We'll Keep on Their Backs' Gangland Notebook 5 I Plymouth Heist Link? Gangland-Type Slayings 1964 PLACE Mar. 15 Dorchester NAME William J. Sheridan Francis Benjamin May 4 South Boston Building Damaged In Winthrop Fire WINTHROP A smoky, two-alarm fire damaged the warehouse of Ideal Pet Distributors and the and Supply 356 Main here at 12:22 this morning. Fire officials said the cause of the blaze was undetermined All This, WOBURN ABBEY, Eng. (UPI) The Duke of Bedford had this to say about marriages between aristocrats and commoners: "Not many years ago the' aristocrats would not dream of marrying into 'trade.

Now, I there's nothing nicer than to marry into a nice chain of supermarkets." May 12 Wilmington Russell C. Nicholson July 23 Paul J. Collicci Quincy Vincent A Bisesi METHOD Shot Beheaded Shot Shot Strangled Drowned Shot Shot Aug. 20 Harold A. Hannon FBI who was curprised that Reddington was slain.

His name, his photograph, his home address and the type of car he drove have been contained in a confidential Boston police circular for more than six months. This circular, bearing the names and pictures of 18 to 20 known hoodlums, divides the list into two groups those friendly to suspected slayer and FBI fugitive George P. McLaughlin and those hostile to him. Reddington was carried as a known associate of McLaughlin's. FBI agents had been keeping an eye on him for the last several years because, in addition to his prior activities as a member of a car-theft and loan-sharking ring, he Boston Harbor Wilfred T.

Delaney Sept 3 Pembroke Leo C. Lowry Llfc-iiA) ft1 Stabbed, Shot and declined to estimate dam- Stabbed, Shot! age. The state fire marshal's Shot Butchered Shot mond's Department Store. and Supply Co. is a hardware firm.

No injuries were reported. office was called to investigate. Police said there were no animals in the building. The company supplies pets to Ray- Sept 4 Watertown Sept 26 Maiden Oct. 17 Everett Nov.

13 South End Nov. 26 Hingham. Dec. 28 Roxbury 1965 Jan. 10 Dorchester Jan.

15 Wilmington Jan. 23 Weymouth Jan. 25 Revere Ronald P. Dermody Carleton Eaton Anthony Sacramone William J. Treannie Edward P.

Huber George Ashe John F. Murray Robert J. Rasmussen Henry F. Reddington Joseph Francione Stabbed, Shot JOSEPH FRANCIONE SLAYINGS 5 'i Shot Shot Shot Shot 1: Without apparent gang affiliations. By JEROME SULLIVAN Underworld executioners have claimed two more victims in the last three days, and the shadow of the $1.5 million Plymouth mail robbery falls over both.

Joseph Francione, 35, became Monday the 18th to die in Greater Boston's 10-month toll of gang murders. Francione, who had a. police record dating back to his teens, was shot in the back of his head in his apartment at 49 South Revere. He had been a suspect in the mail-truck heist of Aug. 14, 1962, the biggest cash robbery in the nation's history.

Chief Postal Inspector William H. White disclosed this, but he declined to say why his agency believed that might have been involved. Postal investigators, however, had kept Francione under periodic surveillance ever since the robbery. Early Saturday the-bullet-riddled body of Henry F. Reddington, 51-year-old ex-convict, was found face down in his real estate office on Main South Weymouth.

A source familiar with the underworld revealed shortly after the mail robbery that Reddington was overheard talking "big sums of money" with several cronies as they sat over drinks at a North Quincy motel. One of the Reddington group owned a pretty good-sized boat which he had docked in the Neponset area. At the time of the Plymouth heist there watf a strong report that the loot might have been transported by boat to a rendezvous outside the harbor. Things have reached the point in this warfare that the public is playing a guessing game as to where and when the next victim will be racked up. There is hardly a detective on the Boston police force or an agent in the local Continued from Page 1 The commissioner said that murder suspects are included among the underworld characters watched by police eyes.

McNamara informed the ait nam SALE! "We're going to keep on their backs," Mulloney said. Mulloney, Dept. Supt. John; I F. Slattery.

chief of detectives; 4 -1 I 1 iL.i 1: Eighteen men have been slain in the savage onslaught which began 10 months ago. The first victim, William J. Sheridan, had no criminal press at a conference in his office that at least two of the murder victims were followed by local authorities whenever they came into Boston. if iiunn juiiuvau, Jiedu oi me Homicide Division, and Capt. Jeremiah Sullivan, chief of the narcotics and vice division, was suspected of involvement in making or distributing counterfeit $20 bills.

In 1961 and 1962 these bills circulated throughout New England and New York. Reddington used to hang out in the bar of a North Quincy motel. It was in the parking lot of this motel that the bodies of two Providence men were found stuffed in the trunk of an abandoned car last July. One of these, ex-convict Paul J. Collici, was a former friend of Raymond Patriarca, alleged Cosa Nostra chief in New England.

Collici and his fellow victim, Vincent A. Bisesi, had been working in Boston and Quincy at the time. Reddington was the third on the confidential police circular to meet violence. The other two were Harold Hannon, whose trussed body was fished out of Boston Harbor in August, and Edward (Punchy) McLaughlin, who was shot, but not killed, in front of the Beaconsfield Hotel in Brookline last Fall. The police circular is beginning to take on the appearance of a list of those marked for death.

will appear at the City Council hearing. Francione in Debt Francione moved to South Revere, a year ago from He identified one of the victims as Henry F. Reddington, long a ront-ranking criminal entrepreneur and suspected of involvement in the $1.5 million Plymouth Mail and $1.2 million Brink's robberies, as one. Reddington was murdered Saturday in his Weymouth real estate office. Four bullets were buried in his body.

"As far as the killings are Watertown. He reportedly was engaged in passing forged checks and was in debt to the loan sharks. His estranged wife, Theresa, 31, of Medford, was sentenced to 30 days in Charles-St. Jail. concerned, we have informa dv tneisea JJisinci oun tion," the commissioner said.

Judge John MacLeod for con "What we need is evidence. connections. His death was believed a mistake or the result of an argument with George P. McLaughlin, 37, his suspected killer now listed among the FBI's 10 most wanted. Yesterday's murdered man, Joseph R.

Francione, 36, shot three times in his apartment at 49 South Revere, was a suspect in the $1.5 million Plymouth mail robbery. State and local authorities are looking for a bank robber believed present when Henry F. Reddington, 51, was gunned to death in his realty office at 1595 Main st, Weymouth, early Saturday morning. The murderous pace picked up after the turn of the year. Five men have died since Dec.

28 and four in 15 days. On Thursday, representatives from the Boston police, the attorney general's office and the Suffolk district attorney's office will appear before a City Council committee at a public inquiry into the unsolved murders. Two men have been arrested and accused of murder- tempt. We know whom we are going Mrs. Francione, who used the after.

Orders were issued all po Javits Urges Senate TV, Desk Microphones alias Nancy Hill, was arrested for passing a bad check. The contempt citation was for tell licemen in the city "to be on the lookout for known crimi ing police she had no criminal Mattapan Brawl Hughes Sentenced In Youths Stabbing James P. Hughes, 19, of Cor- assault and battery with a nals, to make an investigation record and giving a false name and file a report. WASHINGTON (AP)-Sen. oar lnTZ Jacob K.

Javits urged today in 'an uniformed police and de- tectives will be abreast of ac dual resolutions that major tivities. Francione appeared in court and made restitution of $245 for her bad checks. He is free in $10,000 bail for fur thefts. They have two children. He was last seen alive by rell Roslindale, received dangerous weapon Judge Frank E.

Smith or Senate debates be televised. He also proposed installation of a public address system' in the dered the sentences to run four, five-to-seven year prison terms today in Suffolk Superi McNamara said the surveillances and mass pickups will continue. concurrently Senate chamber. or Court on a count of man Hughes was found guilty last Confiscated in last night's slaughter and three counts of jnight by a jury of eight men The New York Republican his landlord, Angelo Vaiarella, who said the victim was outside shoveling snow at 2 p.m. raias were a cancer William Trnnip whnse and four women of man said his colleagues should volver and a .762 Italian Be-iWrheroH was fnnnri slaughter in connection with A little while later, Vaiarel retta pistol.

vacant in the South End the death of William Lownie, la said he heard three shots Both were being checked by Nov. 13. 18, of 390 Ashmont Dor and ran to Francione's apart In custody, awaiting Grand ment and found his lodger police ballistics to see if they had any connection with the wave of murders. Jury action, are William Mur face down on the floor. chester, Apr.

22 in Mattapan after a dance. The incident in which Lownie was stabbed and three other youths knifed State police detectives were, scheduled to question one of the men caught in the dragnet. took place on Deenng rd. ray and Robert Cook. Murray's brother, John J.

Murray, 35, of Cambridge was found shot to death at Tenean Beach in the Port Norfolk section of Dorchester Jan. 10. Dist. Atty. Lawrence There was no sign of his killer or killers.

Mail Holdup Suspect Chief Postal Insp. William F. Thy want to talk to him about Cameron prosecuted and Dan several of the slayings. iel J. O'Connell was defense Serial numbers on one of Counsel.

make use of electronic advances so their debates could be heard and witnessed by more people. Javits suggested that microphones be placed unob-strusively on each senator's desk, possibly in inkwells left over from the days when quill pens were in use. "Often vigorous debate on the Senate floor is completely missed by visitors in the gallery and heard only partially by the working press, Javitts said. In proposing to permit TV coverage of selected Senate de White disclosed that Francione was under Federal surveillance John Murray and the Jan. 15 since the mail robbery Aug.

14, victim, Robert J. Rasmussen, the weapons was obliterated, police said. Plymouth Suspect All of the men picked up had whose beaten and shot body 1962. He would not disclose the re was found in Wilmington, were sults of the watch. state prison parolees.

Mrs. Francione was informed Police Supt. Herbert F. Mul criminal records, most with a history of tailgating (stealing of her husband's death in her loney said last night's roundup Jaywalkers To Be Fined After Sept. 1 Starting next Sept.

1, Boston pedestrians who ignore traffic crossing regulations will be subjected to fines for was only the first of many.jail cell. She said nothing. from trucks) and burglary. mj I ii' mm bates, Javits noted the public SENTENCED in stabbing case, James P. Hughes, 19, Roslindale.

gallery seats only about 300 Misses and petit es A-( If and said "the right to witness public business should not be confined only to those whom the Senate chamber will hold." Similar proposals offered by save 20 to s45 on luxurious Javits and others in the past have made no headway. jaywalking. Plans for Boston's Pedestrian Lifesaving Campaign were unfolded this afternoon in ff meeting of the mayor's traffic advisory committee, headed by James H. Fairclough Jr. Fairclough, a vice president of Jordan Marsh told the 57-member committee of business and civic group executives that Boston had the worst pedestrian death and injury record of any city TRIMMED COUNCIL Continued from Page 1 Two weeks ago Mrs.

Craven sponsored another resolution and Thursday's hearing is the result Langone has sent out invitations to various law enforcement officials, including Alfred W. Gardner, chairman of the Crime Commission. WINTER COATS STAY HILTON One call gets you instant hotel reservations at confirmed rates at all Hiltons worldwide, Statler-Hiltons and other leading hotels. call HA 6-7575 in Boston Arrangements confirmed for sales meetings and group, tours. MIITON MOTtlUH'1 Ill MUSI (II, all Stitltf Hilton Hilton Inn (iltport) York H.i'mi it Usually $100 to $125 00 5 7S in the country.

"Now we are going to hive an intensive campaign to correct the situation," he said. Fairclough said 75 persons were killed in city traffic accidents last year 55 of them pedestrians. "In Boston, we have to achieve this safety goal as quickly as possible, so we need a more accelerated program," he said. Robert S. Kretschmar, chairman of the educational campaign, said that the theme of the safety drive was "Jaywalkers must be taught, not caught." The jaywalker fines will be $1 for each of the first three violations in calendar year and $2 for each offense thereafter.

Other speakers were Mayor Collins; Boston Traffic Commissioner Thomas F. Carty; John L. Baldwin, vice president and general manager of Kenyon St Eckhardt, an advertising agency; Police Commissioner Edmund L. McNamara and Fire Commissioner Thomas F. Griffin.

A- t. Gardner has accepted the invitation, along with Joseph F. McCormack, chairman of the state Parole Board; George B. McGrath, state Corrections Commissioner; Joseph McBrine, City Penal Commissioner, and Atty. Gen.

Edward W. Brooke. Others planning to attend include a representative from Dist. Atty. Garrett Byrne's office; Police Supt.

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