Evening star., 1933-02-16
HAD LIVED IN HACKENSACK.

| HACKENSACK. N. j., February Is
(P.-Hugh McQuillan Of the United
States Secret Service, by telephone
| from his New York Office today, said
he was satisfied Giuseppe zangara,
formerly of this city and Of Paterson,
was the man who last night attempted
to assassinate President-elect Roose-
velt in Miami,
McQuillan came to Hackensack be-
| fore dawn today and questioned the
/ family of Frank Yanni, with whom
Zangara at one time lived.
The Secret Service man said he had
completed his investigation Of Zan-
gara'S activities in North Jersey, and
would not return here.
Zangara was known here also as Joe
Zangara, or zingara.
Took Citizenship Papers.
Zangara obtained his citizenship two
years ago and has never been in
| trouble with the police, according to
preliminary report made by Police
Chief Frederick Repperger to John J.
Toohey. secretary to Gov. Moore.
Toohey, acting On the Governor S
orders, called upon Chief Repperger Of
Hackensack and Chief John A. Murray
of Paterson to make a thorough investi-
cation into the incidents and associates
of zangara.
According to Repperger's first re-
| port Zangara was Colabrese who
came here from Italy II years ago and
settled in Paterson.
Two years ago he took out his citizen
ship papers in Paterson, although he
had moved to Hackensack in the mean
| tirr1p IJo ad ~, 10 in, 1Qo1
| Zangara was a bricklayer and was a
member of Bricklayers' Local No. 2 in
Paterson and transferred to Local No.
% in Hackensack when he moved there
In 1880, the report states, he owned an
automobile.
| For a period in 1881 no information
| concerning him Is available, 1t being
| stated that he was supposed to have
! gone to South America by some Of his
acquaintance. He appears to have had
no intimate friends.
Rosario Candrilli, local contractor, de-
scribed Zangara as an "inflammatory
| character"
| Refreshing his memory about the
brlcklayer he seemed positive that he
was a radical, and declared, He was
an anarchist, Socialist and Communist" I"
| Candrilli said he had employed Zan-
CARA on several jobs around Bergen
County and said he had reputation
as lunch hour" talker.
| Whenever a President was elected or
took Office, or a King assembled a throne,
! Candrilli said the bricklayer, with an
audience of his fellow workers, would
await the lunch hour on the job; then
with wild gestures, he would denounce
governments and the men in power
preach radical doctrines and advocate
| the killing of government leaders
| Was "Model Boarder."
Zangara had the reputation at the
Yanni home, which is situated in a
tenement section, of being a model
boarder" and displayed no abnormal
| traits other than that he hired two
rooms and used only one.
Members Of the family said he ex-
planned he did this because he did not
want any one near him. He was quoted
as saying a fellow boarder once stole
some money from him and that he
did not propose to take any more
The family said they had not heard
from him since he left except for
recent postcard mailed from Panama.
John J. McGrogan, business agent
OF the BricklayerS', Masons' and Plas-
| terers' Union of Paterson, said a man
who gave the name Of Joseph Zingara
| joined his organization about eight
years ago and had been in the vicinity
as recently as three months ago. He
left seeking employment.
| He described the man as about 80
years of age, a native of Italy, very
small and very quiet" He said the
man never Mad caused the organization
any trouble and Ahat he had not been
active In its Affairs