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Pasqualino Lolardo, successor to Tony Lombardo, as he was found in his spartment after entertaining thres “friends.” Mote the Bourbon and the wine. When the police were summoned to the Lolardo home after an uncommonly long time,they found the Mafia King’s body lying in a luxurious front room. His face had been shot away and he could hardly be recognized. Except for a beautiful velvet pillow which she had tenderly shoved under his head the body, said the widow, had not been touched. She did not talk very much, but the little table in the center of the room with its half-empty giasses of whisky spoke eloquently on the circumstances of the man’s death. . With his wife Lolardo had returned to their home from a loop shopping tour at 3 o’clock in the afternoon. At the entrance to the stairway leading to their flat, a cheap and dismal looking place outside, they were met by three men whom the widow said she had seen many times for several years. She did not, however, know their names. All went upstairs and Mrs. Lolardo spread a lunch for the three men who departed at about 3 o'clock. Five minutes later however there was a knock on the rear door. Mrs. Lolardo was in the kitchen ironing at the time and she did not get a good look at them, she said, when they were admitted by her husband. For half an hour or more the visitors made whoopee and there was much clinking of glasses, joking and loud laughing. And then at 4 o'clock, according to Mrs. Lolardo, the gun-play started. There was a scramble for the door and when Mrs. Lolardo walked into the front room she found herself a widow. The pillow was slipped under his head and the widow went to answer the door-bell being rung by her sister-in-law, Mrs. Joseph Lolardo, wife of the well-known body guard. Anna Lolardo, the sister-in-law,telephoned a funeral par- lor for an ambulance and the attendants came, took one look at Mr. Lolardo and summoned the police. During the ques- tioning of Mrs. Lolardo it was finally extracted from her that she had really got a good look at the last visiters and 1! nao reat ovr & Bt OUR SL Se shot FIsiiels mata, when a picture of Joe Aiello was pushed in front of her face, she nodded that one of the visitors was he. While she was still in custody an effort was made to find Mr. Aiello but it was unsuccessful, although eighteen or twenty of his henchmen were gathered together from the dives, pool-halls and bakery on the North Side. All were paraded before the widow but she recognized none of them as her husband’s guests. Resolute attempts were made to solve this murder, and it will be important to remember that wires were tapped at several places and that Mr. Joseph Lolardo was heard to say that he would get even with _ a certain mob. The murder was never technically solved, (4a) tat. ey eer ene ek Oe ee Sree waa ata BiIWMougN Il Was Estanlisned (Nat MY. LOlardo’s VIBITOTs were not all Italians. The death of Lolardo again brought moving day to the Capone alky cookers on the Near North Side. It also brought contro! of the Unione Siciliane to Joe Aiello and what appeared to be a rosy future for his allies. It also brought a fierce and deadly determination to the hearts of the Circus mob to avenge themselves. A few weeks later the Valentine Massacre happened,