Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-24
Joe A|ELLO, RIVAL
OF CAPONE, KILLED
Partner of Bugs" Moran
Trapped as Retreat Is Cut
Off by GangsterS.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, october 24-Gangster
guns, silent in Chicago for some time,
opened up again last night and removed
Joe Aiello, one of the few remaining
rivals of Alfonso Capone, from the pic
ture of Chicago's crime.
Aiello, reputed alcohol king, partner
of George Bugs Moran and with
Moran listed by the Chicago Crime
Commission as public enemy" was
shot and killed by gang of men, num-
Der unknown, as he left the apartment
of Patsy Prestogiacomo, an importer,
i'll North holman avenue.
Seventeen or more bullets were fired
into the gang leader f.om machine and
other guns secreted in three different
positions as A!ello walked into what the
police said was one of the most
elaborate assassination plots in gangland
history.
Found Himself Trapped.
AS he stepped out of the Presto
giacomo apartment, presumably to
enter a cab that was waiting to
take him and Prestogiacomo to his
home, machine-gun fire opened from
third-floor window of an apart
ment across the street. Aiello turned
and fed back into the vestibule and
attempted to arouse some one in the
apartment. Finding his way blocked by
locked doors, he fled into the apartment
courtyard, only to meet the fire of
machine guns coming from a window
of building to the north. Fleeing to
the rear of the court in an attempt to
escape over a back fence, he ran into
fuSillade of shots coming from the
basmeent of the building housing the
Presto apartment
A police sergeant and James Duane,
a cab driver, who had responded to a
previous call for Mrs. Prestogiacomo for
cab to take Aiello and her husband to
Aiello's home, took the wounded man
to hospital, but he died before his
arrival
Thus was added another victim to the
long list of gangsterS slain in the in
ternecine strife that had its beginning
in the Staying of Dion O'Bannion in
1924 and which included the machine
gun Staying OF seven followers of Moran
year ago last st. Valentines day in
a North Clark street garage.
Capone Is Suspected.
Various theories and beliefs were ad-
vanced by the authorities in possible
explanation of gangland's latest slay-
ing. One Of these was that Aiello's
death might have had some connection
with the Staying last June 8 of Alfred
Lingle, reporter for the Chicago Tri-
bune, known as a friend Of Capone.
Some officials said they suspected
Capone and mentioned the hostility be-
tween Aiello and Capone In support of
their suspicious.
assassination might have been prompted
by his wish to control the destinies OF
the Unione Siciliane, which was at one
time dominated by his lrienu, 1ony
Lambardo, who was killed at Madison
and Dearborn streets some years ago.
Another report was that detectives had
limited that a New York gang, headed
by a man known as Joe the Boss" and
believed connected with the Unione,
might have been involved.
Shortly after the Staying two men
were reported seen running from the
front of the west end building, one of
them carrying a machine gun. They
fed in a sedan. A Few seconds later
reported to have followed the sedan.
Later an automobile, with its license
plates removed and its engine numbers
obliterated, was found burning in an
other section of the city.
The police said they learned that the
apartment from which the firing first
began was rented by a young man 10
days ago, indicating that Aiello's death
had been plotted long in advance Of
last nights shooting.
Aiello was SO years Of age, which is
considered old for man engaged in
gangland activities. He was the second
of the public enemies" to meet death
since the Crime Commission issued =.
list of undesirables last April The
other was Jack Zuta, whn was '.,.4I
last August in resort in Wisconsin.