The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-24
Gangsters Hurled
 Their Defiance
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 pitch black stench of the slaughter house district, their faces refiecting their fear of the death they faced, their hands held high in air.
 Four men stepped from the wait ing automobile to the curb; the fifth remained at the wheel.
 There was just one moment of deadly silence, broken only by easy idling of the motor under the hood of the car at the curb.
 Then guns blazed
 They blazed their defiance of a city aroused by the bandit outrage of last Friday night when six were killed and dozen were wounded during the deadly running barraee. They mocked a federal and local drive against crime, intended to be the greatest in history
 Three men against the wall top- pied to the ground at the first burst.
 The blazing guns continued to spit their lead, until 30 bullets had been imbedded in human beings or the wall behind them.
 The four men leaped into their automobile and speeded away.
 0H0 Ol tHe LIICc hS ures screamed, stumbled to his feet and staggered down the street. A night watchman on his rounds found him. He called police.
 Of the other two limps figures, one was dead the second suffering wounds probably fatal
 The slain man was identified as Anthony Ferari, 25. 143 George street, Brooklyn. his companions were identified as Murray Leon ardi, 21, 167 Hopkins street, Brook 1yn, and Angelo Currano. 22, 303 Stockton street, Brooklyn. Both are in St Catherine's hospital in dritical condition.
 No weapons were found on the victims, but police said Ferari and Leonardo had served terms in El- mira reformatory.
 Police got their story of what happened from Leonardo, who re- fused to give the names of their assailants.
 The attempted duplication of Chi cago's St Valentines day massacre broke on a city organizing a fight on crime, and salvaging the broken hearts, broken hopes and broken families tossed up as wreckage in the back wash of Fridays crime wave.
 A mass meeting expected to pack facilities of Central park was or ganized for tonight.
 Funerals of the shooting victims who fell along sthe 12-mile battle front were to be held during the day.
 And the tragic stories behind the killings, from families of police vic tims. boy bandit victims, and a taxi driver whose exact status had been in doubt, still tugged at the hearts of newspaper readers.
 Contention of Mrs Herbert Haase whose husband was slain with the two bandits Friday that he was not one of them, found support today with Detective Philip Knecht who took part in the battle.
 Another wounded taxi driver, first to oyertake the stalled bandit car. shot Haase, he said.
 1At no time did see Haase shoot. He was driving 50 miles an hour and couldn't. The two ban, dits shot from the rear seat all through the chase. Haase had no pun when his body was picked up.
 1How could he be bandit! aba widowed mother of two little chi,dren asked. Bandits don't come home every night and pour over help wanted ads, help the wives with the work, and live in dump like this. ru
 "The priest wouldn't even allow nJerbert to be buried in concecrated grornd because of the newspaper and police stories he was a pam dit" III, o,vor 1rsanctors' funerals today. SerVlces for Motorcycle Patrolman Churcn- iiJ will be at the Church or our Iadv of Mercy, Marion avenue ana 1aath street. Patrolman Walter webb will be buried in Greenwooa cemetery after funeral parlor ser vices. He was given Mason'c SGT V'e Tbe windows and families of the two men will receive $boo eaon from the Mendoza Fur Dyen company, whose payroh 'a,ii caused their deaths. They also WI" receive $500 from the police pen aion fund. $5000 over perioo oi o' weeks. and half pay thereafter.
 Services for the bandit frec''' w,Il he held at his home. s,.
 relatives of the other pahILt, t's pachorik, refused to accept ms bodv: 1t will be buried Tn rottet ,,, ? Haase. the bandit taxi driver WI" await decision of the churcn. ,a
 Gloria Lopez. the four-year nr girl slain while riding witn noi narents, will be buried WeonesuGayy' Gy
 Meanwhile the life of James o ui ondinno, 13, another victim or .ne Friday slaughter, hangs py s.o onr der thread. A bullet IS lodgea nea, his heart. A slight movement t,ay bring a fatal pressure or the We'sus ;s of the bullet itself may cause ''' Chicago Tells Why.
 ch,capo. Aug 24- (UP) - The Chicago Tribune in an editorial to- nv said the recent New York
 ine wave in which many nave Yen killed and wounded was caus-
 partly by the eastern city's TOT roer policy of minimizing crime
 "New York is on the battle +ront" declared the Tribune' Among other reasons for 1t there ia one which particularly deserves comment just now. u.,, +o
 If has been New York policy 10 .erve decorum by sending crime news to the back page. Chicago crime could make page one In New York, but New York crime went inside. ,. . Chicago adhered to the conviction that the best chance a city couId have against it's gangn would pc ss In uncomnromising publicity.