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In his "The First Family", author Mike Dash actually describes the death as being by gunfire, and not by stabbing. I see that in one of the quoted sources stabbing is indicated, so I am not changing it in the article, buy maybe someone else can help to shed light in this.
Quoting the book:
A few days before his murder, the Ox’s pretty wife had noticed a stranger hanging around their house, and when she informed her husband, he had taken her sufficiently seriously to begin carrying a large-caliber revolver in his waistband. This gun was discovered lying by the body after Petto was found sprawled dead in the road close to his home on the evening of October 21. He had been ambushed on his return from work and given no chance to return his assassins’ fire. Five rifle bullets had smashed into his chest from a short range. From the size of several of the wounds—”large enough to admit a teacup,” one local journalist reported after speaking to the town’s police—it appeared that the Ox’s killers had used explosive bullets to make sure of killing their man.
In the notes, these are the relevant sources:
Evening Word, January 29, p. 2 (release); Wilkes-Barre Record, October 23, p. 5 (circumstances, other arrests, wounds “large enough to admit a teacup”), and Sun, October 24, p. 5 (Luciano Perrini, five bullets, revolver, Di Priemo out);
