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The Boston Globe from Boston, Massachusetts • 13

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The Boston Globei
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Boston, Massachusetts
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13
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The Boston Globe Thursday. March IS. 1965 13 Walpole Bat Murder May Have Been Motive for Smith Shooting iWoburn funeral director Ev 56 erett J. Bixbv. The Bixby house bombins was the one for which va CArYiBRSDGEPORT convicted and sentenced to 15 to 18 years.

He was released SAVINGS BANK on parole after about seven years. 07 PAID ON fl Alt trrmnrrc A 1 he sat in the front seat of his car with a girl friend, Marilyn Marks, outside her house on Cedar Somerville. A .38 caliber Smith and Wesson revolver which police said belonged to Smith was found in his car. It was loaded with five bullets. It holds six.

Chief O'Brien said there were many possible reasons Smith was shot. Known as one of the best "dynamite men" in the business, Smith was allegedly involved in the bombing of several homes back in the mid-'50s, one of them the home of gett and William OHIalley. went to trial for the LaTorella slaying and were acquitted. Although the bat murder was committed just outside the right field foul line and within view of some 200 convicts and several guards, testimony in court was far from sufficient for a conviction. Chief O'Brien said Smith, who was released from Walpole last November, was in possession of vital information concerning the LaTorella killing.

By JEROME SULLIVAN The baseball-bat murder of a Walpole State Prison inmate far years ago may have provided the motive for the shoot-iaf in Somerville last Sunday of ex-convict Francis J. gith. Police Chief Thomas J. Orien revealed today. tfn May of 1961, inmate jderick LaTorella was tten to death with a base-fcft bat during a ball game the prison nine and theNatick Town Team.

fwo convicts, William Dag The chief described Smith1 as "a big wheel'' while he was in prison and said he wielded great influence over a certain faction of convicts there. This group would always do his bidding, according to O'Brien. Smith is still in Massachusetts General Hospital where doctors are fighting to save the sight in his only good eye. His right eye was a glass one. Shattered glass from his spectacles entered the good eye when he was shot while Bullets removed from the body of Deegan showed he had been hit twice in the head and four times in the body.

Capt Renfrew, who heads the Chelsea detective bureau, said that two .38 caliber guns and a .45 were used in the alley slaying off Broadway, Chelsea. The police official said he believed an argument which Deegan had with a North Shore cafe owner several weeks ago was a factor. Capt Renfrew said it appeared Deegan had been set up for the kill. LATEST PER ANNUM DIVIDENDS 4U ALL AtvUUillJ QUARTERLY Another ex-convict, Edward (Teddy) Deegan, 35, of Maiden, who became Greater Boston's 19th gangland murder victim last Friday night, was shot by three men firing three weapons, according to Capt. Robert P.

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