At 4:30 am on this date in 1930, Patrolman Henry Steger was walking his
beat in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn. He approached the
police box at Gardner and Meeker Avenues to report in to his station and
there waiting for him, one on top of the other, were the
bodies of 26-year old Anthony Calderone and 29-year old Salvatore
Tavolino.
At first officer Steger thought they were
victims of a hit and run but his flashlight soon showed the bullet holes
in their backs and necks. There was no blood at the scene and both men
were from Manhattan so police determined that they had been killed in
that city and brought over to Brooklyn to be dumped. At some point prior
to his murder Calderone had done some shooting himself because a gun
was found on his person with three shots missing. One reason for the
shooting may have been revenge. Calderone and Tavolino were involved
with six other men in a robbery and both men were released while the
others were convicted so they may have been put on the spot for possibly
squealing
"He must have done something. They don't kill you for nothing." - Chicago Gangster Ted Newberry. Rubbed out January 7, 1933
3 comments:
Loose lips sink... guys with loose lips. Apparently Calderone and Tavolino didn't read the confidentiality clause in the criminal's code of ethics.
Loose lips sink... guys with loose lips. Apparently Calderone and Tavolino didn't read the confidentiality clause in the criminal's code of ethics.
They seldom do. They are always just so eager to get busy breaking the law.
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