In 1958 a 23 year old punk was allegedly murdered by the mob!
Arthur Deluca was getting a weekly unemployment check, allegedly lived with his mother, and had funky shoes.
Sound like anyone you know?
On or about Ocrober 14, 1958, Arthur Deluca was found murdered, allegedly by the mob, in
North Tonawanda, up near Buffalo
We have put fragments of the story into a poem THE BALLAD OF ARTHUR DELUCA
http://www.bpdthenandnow.com/delucamurder.html
Why was this
youth, who on
the surface,
at least, was not
much
different from hundreds of
others,
killed in such a brutal
and fiendish
manner?
They used a wire around his neck
he cannot sing the blues
It was said that he had talked to much
it made the Buffalo News
DeLuca, many thought, wasn't the gangster type. Backing their bewilderment are some facts.
He was not found in a Honda
stuffed in a trunk in North Tonawanda
Guess Aunty Nell must've had his back
Did a TV station pay for his Cadillac?
Behind the wheel of the 1957 Cadillac DeLuca
drove, despite the fact his only apparent means of support was a weekly unemployment check,
DeLuca was a familiar
figure hire
and in Buffalo.
Perhaps he laid the wrong bricks, no one is saying
Deluca is the subject of a gangland slaying
He shot off his mouth at 23
Then they fed him to a tree
DeLuca was declared ineligible because his grades were too low. Later he played the same position for the Niagara Falls semiprofessional football team.
His grades were low, like his I.Q.
He's reincarnated to yap and bother you
His girlfriend ignores him and his dirty deeds
he has eyes for her daughter with special needs
Whatever the
truth concerning
the victim, investigations
are slowly
lighting the
shadowy private
life of
Arthur DeLuca.
DeLuca, 23,
an unemployed
bricklayer,
was found, garroted
by wire, in
the trunk of his
1957 Cadillac
which was parked
in a lot in
North Tonawanda.
We've written a poem to commemorate DeLuca's passing
He was not found in a Honda
stuffed in a trunk in North Tonawanda
Guess Aunty Nell must've had his back
Did a TV station pay for his Cadillac?
Perhaps he laid the wrong bricks, no one is saying
Deluca is the subject of a gangland slaying
He shot off his mouth at 23
Then they fed him to a tree
His grades were low, like his I.Q.
He's reincarnated to yap and bother you
The Gangsters made it so he couldn't sing
he was reincarnated with a 2 -wheely thing
