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cme ANH Oe ge at Se RI ote e antege 38 we ',)man who wasn't there when While gangland’s slain chief xecutioner thus was going to police spurred their for clues to his kilktrs. At ithe same time, Anthiny 3Corppola, ‘bodyguard Jor the deaQ man, was acquitted of vagrancy charges on which he {had been held in $50,000 bail. The charge against Coppola ‘Iwas dismissed in Manhattan i)Court and iramediately he was: i]taken in tow by detectives for; ‘another, round of interroga- 1 thon about last Friday’s murder of his boss in the Park Shera- ‘'} ton Hotel barber shop. _ Stories Conflict. “| Much official attention’ cen: ‘|tered on Coppola, the pudgy! the man who hired him.as a {bodyguard was shot to death. J|Coppola, 49, hed given con- as “uncooperative” by ‘pols Police feel Coppola _ ould be of aid if he--woukd “talk other gangsters.* +‘) =-FARy Meanwhile, Chief 6f “Deted tives James B. Leggett said it has been established the ‘two! guns police found Friday afer ithe “sjaying were the -mulker guns; but were connected} ‘to no-ojher crimes and bore: no ‘Jt Was also learned the shop . Fat! flashy Moretti, a -close pal of} Costello and Anastasia, hed & blabbing loud’ and long a New Jersey if ortiy before fou¥ gun- ‘}men silenced him in a lunch- Scalise, a Heutenant of eral narcotics agents and FBI Costello was shot in the, head May 2, but only slightly, wdunded. Detectives investi-! gating this murder attempt learned that the elder states-| man of mobdom had been! discussing gangland business with an outsider, who repeated stelio’s revelations to fed- eral officers. Costello Runtor. When Anastasia was slain last Friday morning in the barber shop of the Park Sher- aton Hotel, a rumor circulated the Killing was in reprisal for the Costello shooting. But, ‘those who knew Anastasia fram the bloody days of Mur- der Inc. promptly discargec this report. ~~ vg | “If Albert A. had wanjed Costello cut of the way, Gos: tello \vould be dead,” one ¥po- lice jpfficial commented. “Al- bert'| boys didn’t bungle a job. 1] While police appeared tobe -jup against & blank~wall as to ll who, several well-informed po Afore him, -“sival: -robsters Jteared he:was abotit to break - Vthe uriderworld ‘code of silence, ‘they believed: ==" 4° 07" 1” These sources, pointed out ‘lthat Anastasia had been ques- tluoned several times in recent ‘Imonths by Federal Bureau of ‘investigation agents and other ‘federal investigators, His last + ‘tsession with the g vernment sleuths was about three weeks ago. co United States A ey Paul ; ed to haul him in as &@