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eee 3B While ganigland’s stan chief xecutioner thus was going to police spurred their for clues to his killers. At {the same time, Anthony bodyguard Jor the dead man, was acquitted of lvagrancy charges on which he ‘had been held in $50,000 bail. i The charge against Coppola ‘was dismissed in Manbattan i)Court and iramediately he was. ,|taken in tow by detectives for; ‘another round of interroge- ‘tion about last Friday’s murder yJof his boss in the Park Shera- ton Hotel barber shop. 7 Stories Conflict. “Yo Much official sitentlon'cen| ithe man who hired bim.as a {bodyguard was shot to death.| other gangsters. ‘Meanwhile, Chief of Deted tives James B. Leggett said Ht has been established the ‘two! guns police found Friday after’ the ‘slaying were: the muller guns; but were connected! ‘to no-ovher crimes and bore! no finge) ts. ‘It bas also learned the shop) Hiss. = gating this murder attempt learned that the elder states: Iman of mobdom had been’ discussing gangland business Jwith an outsider, who repeated| stello's revelations to fed- feral officers. Costello Rumor. When Anastasia was slain} last Friday morning in the barber shop of the Park Sher- laton Hotel, 2 rumor circulate3} the Silling was in reprisal for the Costello shooting. But,| those who knew Anastasia! Costello cut of the way, ¢ tello Avould be dead, ‘po-] ice ‘pfficial commented. “Al- Scalise, a HMeutenant of i bert] boys didn’t bungle a fob. seers. While -police’ a] 4 lup against a blank-wall'as to who, several wellinformed“po- tice | Bources “theorized as_to the why, of the kifling.- Ana: ‘Istasia was executed “because thike other “gang chieftans ‘be Atore < hhim, -tival -mobsters ‘feared he! was abotit 'to break V the uriderworld ‘code‘of silence, they believed. -=* = ‘> ‘These sources, pointed out *Ithat_ Anastasia het nm ques: n tioned several times in recent -\months by Federal Bureau of Utnvestigation agents and other -lfederal investigators, His last ‘\session with the gévernment sleuths was about three weeks AES. ‘ }|_ United States Attqrney Paul {Williams and his jassistants the fo ! boss of Murder, inc, ajout labor ricketeering. the Sen- Vate labor rackets committee ed to haul him in as @ ifritness.