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The Daily Express
Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio
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FBI agents arrested Giachino (Jack) Baccolla, a most wanted criminal, in New York on Dec. 10, 1940s context, for transfer to Detroit on murder and obstruction charges related to killing jeweler Albert A. Swartz who testified in a film theft case.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 11 (INS)—FBI agents made arrangements today to transfer to Detroit Giachino (Jack) Baccolla, a "disarmingly quiet man" who was listed among the nation's ten "most wanted criminals."
Baccolla, who despite his appearance was labeled by the FBI as "an extremely dangerous criminal who may kill without the slightest provocation," was arrested last night as he walked into a Broadway office building.
The one-time east side hoodlum, who was listed last August on the "Ten most wanted" series distributed by International News Service, surrendered without a struggle to the FBI men who closed in on him.
He said simply, "I surrender."
Baccolla, who had disguised himself with a neatly cropped mustache and horn-rimmed glasses, will be taken to Detroit to face charges of murder and obstruction of justice as the paid killer of a jeweler who turned State's evidence in a $27,000 photo film theft.
The jeweler, Albert A. Swartz, was ambushed and shot to death last May 17 as he drove into his garage. A month before his murder Swartz had pleaded guilty to an interstate shipment of the film and offered to testify against two other men involved, Kenneth C. Gordon and Kenneth McCleod, who since have been sent to prison.
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New York
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Dec. 11 (Arrest Last Night)
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baccolla arrested and to be transferred to detroit for murder and obstruction charges; swartz shot to death last may 17; gordon and mccleod sent to prison.
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FBI agents arrested Baccolla, listed among the ten most wanted, as he entered a Broadway office building; he surrendered without struggle; disguised with mustache and glasses; charged as paid killer of jeweler Swartz who testified in $27,000 film theft case.