People v. Ryan

The appellants, Ryan and Venetucci, were indicted jointly with Thomas Fitzgerald and John Croghan for the murder of Paul Cassullo. Fitzgerald and Croghan pleaded guilty of murder in the second degree and have been sentenced to imprisonment. Ryan and Venetucci have been convicted of murder in the first degree.

The dead body of Paul Cassullo was found at about six o’clock on the morning of December 8, 1932, on the stoop in front of a building on West Fifty-ninth street, where he conducted a grocery store and lived in an apartment above his store. Death was caused by a revolver bullet which had…