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Al Capone — Part 34
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Joueph [Pepe] Genero, 4T ote ci
onetime Capone Heuténant who was
always ready to turn a fpw doliars in
dcohol peddling, gamBling, or con-
‘ducting houses of ill ‘dame, was shot
to death last aight by naidentified
d | asssilants.
: Genero, who ‘real name wes Jos
; eph Annerino, was seated In a tavern
lat 1543 East 634 street when an
3 automobile, driven slowly west,
‘} | passed the front window. From this
lear two men in the rear seat thrust
7 shotguns and pulled the triggers.
S| Their aim was good and the charges,
crashing through the glass of the
4) window, struck Genéro in the head.
Witees Hire wien: Drive On.
MU Ba a RO
The high stool on which he was
sitting fell to the fioor as he oF
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pled backward. Jessie Warner,
years eld, 6315 Harper avenue, "ait
ress with whom he had been rolling
dice, screamed. The bartenders end
a few patrons took cover. But only
the two shots were fired and the car
of the killers wax driven rapidly west
to Harper avenue and then north.
aoe linen’ mul mo far minites !
Genero lived omy & fw maces
ter he was struck,
There wes no accepted theory as
to why he had been killed, Nor was
dt made clear what his recent activi-
eee,
Tes pag. peer
admitted she knew him.
home of his brother at 120 East 105t
street. The women and men wer
being questibned at the detective bu
reau early today. ‘
Genero waa tried.in 1927. for the
murder of Michéel Vinct, a gangster
who, on his deathbed, named him as a
killer. He was acquitted. In Decem-
ber, 1929, he was indicted on charges
of kidnaping in connection with elec
tian seeders fe the Teton sintt — a
Mv disorders 48 LUG A WCUUCHWL WEI,
but the cases were nol prossed.
In. 1932 he was shot and wounded
while he was conducting a gambling
| Danis in Calumet City, sibe-rimed
j the attack on Black Handers. .
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date old, 268 Bobby. Rossel, 4, ind?
Iwo men, “Dugo” Frank Costello and”
to Graziamo, were taken into. cunt
tady at 11721 Cahimet avesue ip
questioning. Mins Clarke dettied ‘that’
pakke had been living with Genero, bul
Third Man Questioned. -4
Later William Bondelli, 23, of 35t
East W17th street, was seized at th”
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