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...Boston press has already come under much criticism for its coverage of the burning murder of Evelyn Wagler and the stabbing death of Ludivico Barba. Banner headlines reading "Woman Torched to Death" and "Man Stoned to Death by Youths" on successive days were sensational, especially when compared with the actual circumstances...
...gasoline murder of Wagler on October 2 was a vicious, senseless act, but when police discovered Barba's body near the predominantly black Columbia Point housing project the following day, newspapers jumped the gun in assuming it was another "roving gang" slaying...
...armed with clubs and knives collected around a Columbia Point school, forcing jittery authorities to close it. As a result, large groups of idle black teenagers were soon wandering the area, and in quick succession they claimed three white victims. Two of them were stabbed and robbed, and Ludivico Barba, 65, a retired contractor who was fishing off rocks at the point in his rubber waders, was stoned by a gang of about 30 youths. They then stabbed him to death and robbed...
Boston Mayor Kevin White offered a $5,000 reward for information leading to the capture of Mrs. Wagler's murderers, and police soon arrested two suspects, aged 15 and 16, in the Barba killing. The mayor made a point of keeping all Boston schools open on Friday, claiming that despite the week's double horror his city "is still the most livable, walkable, decent city in America." But many parents-both white and black-kept their children out of school, fearing that the savage eruption of violence might not yet have run its course...
...autopsy, which showed that Barba died from hemorrhaging as a result of stab wounds, was released at midnight Friday and The Globe changed the story for the later editions, Doherty said...