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i oR A thot gallate. > hte me oo me ae the tape across his “ace nade tt almost {npoastble for hia te breathe. <Ayenta were ohlized ta take Soth the victine te a doctor's o%*tce te have the tape renoved fron thetr faces The leader 0° thts gang was Fiagdon Fillion DeXornand. His companions were Joseph Peter Oddo, JosepA Alfred Lacaacia, William Joseph King, and John Nugavere. Mugavere was tn Army . untform and was a deserter. Lacascia and Xing were on carele . Sor state o/fenaes at the time of their arrest. L[eornand, the leader, woe an ex-convict who had deen discharged from a penitentiary in New York in May, 1943, after serving 13 yearse Be had been sent to prison for hie activities aaa strong-arm . thug tn the underworld gang of the late notorfoue “Putoh® Sohultg. He had been one of Schulta's princtpal lteutenants, witie tncarcerated if priaos cag Aad Spent the 7 nontha of his ,°reedom recruftting a gang ef hoodluma and ez-convicta to commit Af fackings. Jt wae no acctdent, o.” course, that “22 Agents rere on haad the nlzaAt 2% “scen*er 2, 21943, to round up thia gang tn thetr firet At jacking act. Cong before the crine cas actually committed agenta got wind of the act that Fe¥ornand was rounding up @ gang and wae reconnoltering vortoua trucking coapantes fn Few York City to find valuable cargo that could be easily hte Jacked. Hia pians were carefully iaid, aad ie Ace already sade arrangements to dispose of the £100,006. shipment 0% artaky. “sis cose was oresented to a “Vieral frend Jury tn the Southern Ctserte¢ of ‘ew Tork on Jansery 12, icdd, ind s