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laBig Shot in S. F. Faces Term in PenitentiaryHAS POLICEHISTORYThree Murders Laid to Previous OutbreakJohn Castro. South San Fran-cisco -truckman, who named Daniel BRrsetti, San Francisco £a»g man as the big shot11 in the gang- world of the Pacific const, was free but under watchful guard today as the result of his revelations.[In- [ Castro's story resulted in the. fastest grand jury hction seen1 in Sou Francisco in years when indictment* wore returned against Barnctti a nil his companion, Fernando Biaginj, Thursday night at a apcclul session of the inquUito-nx-JUB,:elyntsarsedan. rial botlj. j . Bo1h Guarded ngo e .If!1 Castro last Wednesday in [in- ^ T ..idshe----- WT' - - — v 11 ■ ♦ «4 WOU41 V AILiSnn Fi ancifco when he was niude I ho target far gangster .shots, was William Costa, ID-.veur-old Koufti i , Fnmciscn boy. Following the ^ j shooting bolli Castvn and Costa , were arrested by Ban KraueUeu po-J lice but both were given their tree-llftm iolt;lai’' aiov6»«ul!S of both,■ Jl«w«ver* wove being guarded lest ill | members of the Barr,mi giing I vi-renk iheir vengeancn o:; thu a ■ I BouLh Sun Francisco pair, bo! Cn^tro wns u former extra fire-de- lI,ari t*lu South Sm\ Fnimwu ,rt [department before he Uucnme~'u ' j truckman and acquired u still, with lff0|f1mgini near South City, ft was [he1 KcaTIRC. Wiaffini dismantled the ilwt| still M'ltliutiL Castro's knowledge iw I t!iat hilirr wont to' Ban Frun-’ | eisco Wednesday for Jiis money or LCk | on explanation.of! Accused Policenps : Barselti was revealed as the man ng whoso testimony in H25 sent one to San Francisco police office:* to jail nnd charged thirteen others with bribery. Bnrsetti testified that. hcs had paid Inigo sums for ‘‘protec-htm/* He Inter served a month in jtil at Merced on a liquor charge and was arrested in Stockton in 392b on a check charge, police records show.Police expressed the belief that itlie shooting may forecast reopen mg of a threc-y cur-old LP'ng war, which broke out over affections of ''Zlq Zee” Worth and involved “Ruby Face’' Biaymi, brother ot‘ the man alleged to have turned bis __|gnn an C«*tro and Costa. Gem eai underworld dandy, Alfjpduv I Sc aviso, one* of his executioners, of! nnd Cinnarm Brocunlo, king of jthu blackmailers” were killed be-! I'm* the gang war of three yearly. ago subsided, d- , Arrested Before af i tastro was arrested several nyjnmnLIu ugu following a raid on ht.! C lt;niniovein I avenue next door to | the Castro liunie, which revealed it still. The truckman was later re* Uijisnd for hud: ul‘ evidence, 11 v (ConUmmi on Pago Two)
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San Mateo Times
San Mateo, California, US
Sat, Sep 26, 1931
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