December 13, 1930 - Suicide Theory Given; Calabro Box Mystifies

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 as published in the Buffalo Courier-Express


SUICIDE THEORY GIVEN; CALABRO BOX MYSIFIES

Police learn nationally known racketeers visited Niagara Falls this week 

special to Courier-Express

Niagara Falls, Dec 12 - Police admitted today they had no progress in their effort to solve the mystery surrounding the finding of a box containing clothing and personal papers of John G Calsbro, 301 Monroe Street, Brooklyn, including a telegram from Al Capone, Chicago racketeer, in an automobile owned by Joseph Duce, 181 Sixteenth Street. They gave some consideration to the theory Calabro may have committed suicide here, because the box is believed by Duce to have been placed in his car while it was parked in Riverway a short distance from the brink of the American Falls. Search of the riverbank revealed nothing to bear out the suicide theory. 

Police are still waiting to learn the whereabouts of Calabro. According to press dispatches from New York he is at liberty on bail, pending an appeal from a conviction on a charge of conspiracy in illegally obtaining citizenships of aliens. 

Al Capone Not in City

Police said they learned from a reliable source that Al Capone had never been in the city since he gained notoriety as a gangster, despite rumors current here to the effect that the Chicago overlord was here last Tuesday. 

From an underworld source police learned that several racketeers more or less well known nationally, were at the Falls Tuesday. They went from here to Utica and were planning to go New York from there. Police could not learn the purpose of their visit here. 

Police said today that members of the Aiello-Moran-Zuta gang of Chicago had been in the city several weeks ago. They had a conference in an apartment in Third Street, between Niagara and Falls streets. Police learned of their presence from a resident of the apartment house. 

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