Word: mazza
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John ("Aces") Mazza, 20, petty gangster, was murdered in front of an eastside Manhattan cafeteria. In his pocket was found a printed invocation: St. Joseph, Patron Of A Happy Death, Protect Me. ¶The body of John Franzione, who with four companions killed a detective last July and later squealed on them, was found on a Bronx refuse heap. ¶Two detectives followed two gunmen into a saloon on Lexington Avenue. The gunmen held the place up, shot it out with the detectives. Fatalities: Gunman Albert Checchia and Detective Christopher W. Shueing, whose father received the Congressional Medal of Honor...