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Al Capone — Part 34
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“Veta.
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always ready to turn a few dollars in
cohol peddling, gamBling, or con-
‘ducting houses of il Zame, was shot
to death last aight by unidentified
assailants. . a
Genero, whove real name wes Jos-
eph Annerino, was seated in @ tavern
at 1543 East 63¢ street when an
automobile, driven slowly west,
passed the front window. From this
car two men in the rear seat thrust
shotguns and pulled the triggers.
‘Their aim was good and the charges
3 crashing through the glass of the
window, struck Genero in the head.
‘illers Fire Twiee; Drive On.
‘The high stool on which he was|
sitting fell to the fioor as he top-
pled backward. Jessie Warner, 32
years old, 6315 Harper avenue, walt-
‘yess with whom he had been rolling
\aice, screamed, The bartenders and
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.
Genero lived only a few minutes
er he was struck, '
‘There wes no accepted theory es
\{to why he had been killed, Nor was
[it made clear what hia recent activi-
—_—_—
"Teiegpad peer
questioning. Miss Clarke denied that’
he had been living with Genero, buf
admitted she knew him. 5
‘Third Man Questioned. -4
Later William Rondelli, 23, of 3st
East 7th street, was selaed at th”
home of his brother at 120 East 105t
street The women and men wer
daing questidned at the detective bu
Teau early today.
Genero waa tried. in 1927. for the
murder of Michael Vinci, 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-
tion disorders in the Twentieth ward,
but the cases were nol prossed.
In 1932 he was shot and wounded
while he was conducting a gambling
Paliis to Calumet City. atbovbinme
the afiack’on Black Handers. ‘
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