Joe Auletto Fined After Craps Raid
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Pays $25 Fine to Escape 30-Day Term; Suspended Sentences Given 5
Charged with operating a craps game, Joseph Auletto, 40, of 909 South Fourth street, was fined $25, or 30 days, when arraigned Saturday before Police Judge Lewis Liberman. Auletto entered a guilty plea and paid the fine.
Auletto and five other men were arrested when detectives raided the former's poolroom. Detective Sergeant Louis Shaw, who led the raid, confiscated a craps table cover and several pair of dice, and $3 on the table.
All of the others were given 30-day suspended sentences. They are Lawrence Palese, 22, of 420 Lansdowne avenue; Salvido Mignona, 25, of 630 South Fourth street; Joseph Bailey, 32, of 1354 Morton street; Louis Asiudo, 24, of 901 South Fourth street, and Mazzarino De Vecchio, 45, of 323 Line street.
Detectives Thomas Murphy, August Fortune and Clarence Arthur were in the raiding party. They said they found the men grouped about a pool table over which had been laid the "craps cover."
Auletto was charged with being the proprietor of a gambling establishment under a city ordinance and the others with being material witnesses.