It was Acting Lieut. Samuel Ric-cordi of the Homocide Squad who got the first hunch that the police were tackling the greatest mass-murder plot in the history of the United States. Checking insurance policies on Alfonsi for a possible motive for his murder, he found a surprising amount, $4,000, for a man on a W.P.A. labourers wage. Checking Petrillo, he found that he spent much of his time at the home of Mrs. Carina Favato, a fat, plain, middle-aged woman, and wondered why, as, obviously, he was not her lover. Checking on Mrs. Favato, he found that her common-law husband, Charles Ingrao, had died two years previously, leaving $9,030 in insurance, of which all but $530 was payable to Mrs. Favato, and that his wage had been $20 a week as a labourer; hat her 17-year old stepson, Philip, who had earned $6 a week as a baker's apprentice, died a year later insured for $6.500, all payable to her; and that Guiseppe di Martino, a $20 a week labourer and neighbour of Mrs. Favato, died after a short illness during which she nursed him. insured for $6,000 of which $1,979.00 was payable to her.—United Press.
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