Saturday, June 9, 1973
THE SUMMER DAILY
Page Five
BLACK POLITICIAN FELLED
Gangland-style killing in N.J.
CHERRY HILL, N.J. (A -
Major WCoxoon, an ex-convict who
failecd in ai bid to become the
first blai:k mayo7(r of nearby Cam-
den,, woo exes:uted "gangland
tle" yest erday. The slaying
r oc :.rred so the bedroom of a
re:tea mansion here, police said.
Wo"anded in the predawn shoot-
ing wr a woman identified by
police as Lais Luaby, 35, ofAmb-
ler, Pa., and her two children,
Lita, 17, and Toro, 14. Police
said the Luby woman had been
living with Coxson and had adopt-
ed his name. A third Luby
child, Lex, 13, escaped unharm-
ed.
THlE WOMAN and Lita were in
serioos condition at Cherry Hilt
Medical Center and Torn was in
fair condition.
Public Safety lDirector Thom-
as ORourke said four b 1 a c k
men were admitted to the house
at about 4 a.m. ED)T, shortly af-
ter they honked the horn of a
bt-'ek Cadiltac.
lie said there was some con-
versation inside the hoase and
then the four men brandished at
toast two chrome-plated revotvers
and tied and gagged Coxson and
the others with neckties.
Coxson's body, clad in red bed-
clothing, was. found in a kneel-
ing position with his head rest-
ing on a waterbed. lHe had been
shot once in the back of the
head.
THE WOMAN was found in the
same bedroom. Lita was in her
bedroom and Torn was in the
tiring room.
Lexc, although tied hand a n d
foot and gagged, managed to
wriggle out a sliding glass door
and make his way to the home
of a neighbor, Zehair Khalil, who
catted police.
Khalil said, "We heard the dog
h arking. My young boy came
downstairs and then t came
down. I asked who it was and a
voice said, 'It's Lex, let me in,
My house is being robbed.'"
Khalil said the boy, dressed only
in underclothes, had his hands
and ankles tied with neckties but
had managed to work the gag
from his mouth.
THE BOY had hopped to the
Khalil house and began banging
his head on the glass of the kit-
chen door and shouting.
The woman said the boy told
her his father had admitted tour
men "he thought were friends" to
the house, and that a short time
later some of the men pulled
guns.
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Khalil said the boy told her he
overheard one of the gunmen
shout, "Let's get the hell o-st of
here. There's no money here."
COXSON, 45, a flamboyant
character who often flashed large
rolls of cash, was believed to
keep large ;sms of money in the
house fronmise IsoIssue. Police
declined comment ran whether
robbery may hare been a motive
for the shostins.
Director O'Rourke alsos declin-
ed comment on whether the gun-
men might hare bees friends of
Coxson.
Coxson' was defeated May S in
the Camden mayoral race by An-
gelo Errichetti.
THE SON of a tUnionatown, Pa.,
coat miner, Crcxon sersed time
in federal and state prisons on
an assortment of offenses, in-
cluding fraud and larceny. Cox-
son was said to have made con-
siderable money is the new and
used car business and by dab-
bling in real estate.
Coxson rented the $200,000 man-
sion for $1,0f00 a month.
lie was a friend of former
heavyweight boxinag champion
Muhammad Ali, who lives near-
by, and reputed Cosa Nostra boss
Angelo Bruno.
THE COXSON home is situat-
ed in a patch of woods about 600
yards, in from Barbara Lane. The
area is lined with posh homes.
Several friends of Coxson said
he was deeply in debt,
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POLICE STAND GUARD over the palatial Cherry Hill, N.J. home of black politician Major Coxson
who was executed gangland-style yesterday morning. A woman and twvo children were wounded in the
incident. Coxson was recently an unsuccessful candidate for mayor of near-by Camden, N.J.
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