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Killed. Anthony M. Ruffu Jr., 54, Mayor of Atlantic City, N. J., recently acquitted on four of 14 indictments that charged him with shady insurance deals involving municipal properties, connivance with keepers of bordellos (TIME, Feb. 24) ; with a brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. John H. Wiley, and a cousin, Mrs. Margaret Siracusa; when an automobile in which they were riding was struck by a railroad train at Absecon, N. J. He was shortly to have been tried on the remaining ten counts...
...January, the Journal has carried not less than a half-page a day crammed with news characteristically bold-stroked, free-swinging and Hearstian. As a result of its findings, the sober element of Atlantic citizenry have banded together, led by the Chamber of Commerce, to run Mayor Anthony M. Ruffu Jr. and his henchmen out of town...
...nefarious activities of Mayor Ruffu and his banditti, the Journal has reported...
...Mayor Ruffu, in addition to his manifold duties in selling insurance to the city and renting disorderly houses . . . using his office as chief magistrate of Atlantic City's law and government to jockey a gambling business into a friend's pocket . . . finds time to supervise [26] bureaus...
...Virtually every one of these public activities of Mayor Ruffu has called down criticism...