Eboli Is 15th Gangland Victim in a Year

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The slaying of Thomas Eboli early yesterday in Brooklyn was at least the 15th ganglandstyle murder in New York City since Joseph A. Colombo Sr. was wounded and incapacitated in the early moments of the Italian‐American civil rights rally he had organized in Columbus Circle on June 28, 1971.

Three men were gunned down during the remainder of 1971. This spring, more shootings took place in the underworld just before and after Joseph Gallo, a rival Mafia chieftain of Colombo's, was slain in a clam house in the Little Italy section of Manhattan while celebrating his 43d birthday.

Following are the names of the victims and the dates and circumstances of their murders:

Dominick Famulari, 44 years old, was shot nine times in the back and the head on July 21, 1971, while he was walking along a street in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. Famulari, who lived in North Bergen, New Jersey, was identified as a close friend of former member of the Profaci Mafia family that was later taken over by Colombo.

Dominick DeAngelis, 46, was found dead of three bullet wounds in his head on November 5, 1971, on 54th Street near Seventh Avenue in Brooklyn. DeAngelis, who was identified by fingerprints, had a police record dating to an arrest in 1947 on auto‐theft charges in Westchester County.

Bruno Latini was found dead on Christmas Eve, 1971, with three shots in his head, in his car in a parking lot four blocks from his bar at Eighth Avenue near 52d Street in Manhattan. The police found $500 and a .38‐calibre pistol in Latini's pockets,

Thomas Edwards, who also was known as Thomas Ernst, was shot to death April 6 on the porch of the home of his father‐in‐law, Johnny (Dee) D'Alessio — a prominent name in the underworld — at 151 Jumel Street in Staten Island. At his death, Edwards was awaiting trial on charges of criminal possession and conspiracy to steal $70,000 in securities.

Bruno Carnevale, identified by District Attorney Thomas J. Mackell of Queens as a “soldier” in the Gambino family, was shot at close range with a shotgun as he walked near his home at 224‐15 Braddock Avenue in Queens Village. The police found $14,000 in his pockets. The shooting also took place April 6, only a few hours before Edwards was slain.

Gallo was gunned down early the next morning, April 7, minutes after he arrived at Umberto's Clam House at 129 Mulberry Street after he, his wife, and some friends had spent the night drinking champagne at the Copacabana.

Gennaro Ciprio, who reportedly had been with Colombo when he was shot, was murdered three days later as he left his restaurant in the Bath Street section of Brooklyn.

Richard Grossman, identified as a hanger‐on in the Colombo family and a specialist in auto and credit cards theft, was found the same day, shot in the head in the trunk of an abandoned car in the Sheepshead Bay section of Brooklyn.

Frank Ferriano, a laundryman from Elizabeth, New Jersey, was found, slain, also on April 10, behind a shack at a parking lot at 41 Dominick Street in Manhattan. He had been shot several times.

William Della Russo, 26, who had been at/rested previously on narcotics and burglary charges, was found dead on April 15 outside a crowded bar in Brooklyn, 10 blocks from Ciprio's restaurant. He had been shot three times in the chest.

David Wolosky, also known as David Kaye, was found dead —the victim of a chest wound —outside the Beth Israel Hospital at 16th Street and First Avenue on April 19.

Rosario Stabile, a 35‐year‐old father of four and a dispatcher for a Queens truck firm, was found shot in a car near Prospect Park the next day.

Victor Pearson, 36, of 130‐38 146th Street, Jamaica, Queens, was shot six times in the head and neck nine days later. His body also was left in a car, which the police found in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn.

Alfred Bianco, a contractor and a second cousin of Gallo's, was shot in the head at close range on May 2 at a luncheonette in Sheepshead Bay that the police said was frequented by Mafiosi. Authorities said, however, that he didn't have police record.

Mr. Bianco's slaying was the last with suspected underworld overtones until Eboli was shot.