Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-05
POLICE TRAP GANG
IN BABY KILLING
Vincent Coll and Renchmen
Taken After New Staying.
Raid Ends in Battle.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, October 5.-Vincent Coll
and four members of his gang arrested
in a roundup in Manhattan all have
been identified as the gunner who &C.
cupied the automobile from which bull
lets swept a Harlem street July %. kill
ing one child and wounding four others
Inspector John J. Sullivan announced
today
These prisoners are the baby killers, "
Inspector Sullivan said, as the five
mounted the brightly lighted platform
in the police lineup.
They are responsible for the shooting
in East One Hundred and Seventh
street. We have information that each
and every one of them was in the auto
mobile at the time of the killing"
Police refused to say where they got
their information because of danger to
their informant.
Named as Trigger Man.
Frank Giordano, who is nearly 10
years older than the gangster leader,
actually did the shooting, Inspector
Sullivan said.
Giordano was arrested in an apart
ment yesterday several hours before
Coll and Dominick Odierno were cap
tured with two girls in West Side
hotel Five pistols and a silencer were
found in Glordano's apartment.
Mike BaiSle and Pasquale Del Greco,
also arrested in yesterdays roundup,
shuffled onto the platform under the
glaring lights with Coll, Odierno and
Giordano
The tail, young gang leader, who
sighed with relief last night when ne
found that men who showed pistols
against his stomach as he encountered
them in a hotel corridor were not mem
berS of the gang of his arch-enemy,
Dutch" Schultz, Bronx beer baron, but
only the police arresting him for muir
der, appeared to be perfectly at ease.
Women Captured With Gang.
Arrested with Coll and Odierno in the
hotel were Lottie Kreisberger, who told
police she was Coils wife and said she
would rather have ham sandwich With
Coll than q fortune with any other
man, and Betty White.
Coils disguise was ludicrously re-
vealed as he stood on the brilliantly
lighted platform. His hair had been
dyed black-not very skillfully. And on
his upper lip was feeble attempt at
mustache.
Giordano described himself as an
acrobatic dancer and inspector Sulli-
van identified Odierno as a ''profes-
sional assassin" and charged him with
having killed Joseph Mullins, Dutch
Shultz follower last FRIDAY.
Five other members of the Coll gang,
arrested in a raid on house in Averlll
Park, a suburb of Troy, N. Y, last night,
were expected here today.
Two Others Sought.
Although Inspector Sullivan charged
all five of the men in the lineup today
with the Harlem shooting, Assistant
District Attorney P. Francis Marion
today to seek indictments for flrSt-de-
gree murder against only Coll, Giordano
and two other men not yet arrested.
When the formal charge of murder
ing 5-year-old Michael Vengalli last
July % was read to him at the police
station this morning, he denied 1t. He
said he had been out or town all sum-
mer, returning only Friday. Two pistols
were found in his hotel room.
PCllce COMMISSIONER MuliooIiey, INV INV
ever, said there was no mistake. Wit
nesses, he said, had identified Coll
positively as one of the men in the au-
tomobile from which poured bullets that
raked the Little Italy" street on which
children were at play. The Vengalli boy
was killed and four Of his playmateS
were wounded. One of them was tum-
bled from a baby carriage. The gunflre
was meant for a man lounging in a
doorway. Though go shots were fired,
the man was unhurt.
Coll also was identified as one CT the
bandits who robbed a milk company
plant of $1,000 a year and a half ago
In a hold-up in the Bronx, police said
Coll had $4,000 in his pocket. Sew
eral other members of his gang each
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