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...Dwyer got an earful. At the close of a 15-hour session the squat gunman had confessed to three murders, implicated himself in four more. On one shooting expedition he had been with Harry ("Happy") Maione and Frank ("The Dasher") Abbandando, now awaiting the electric chair at Sing Sing. They had polished off two members of a plasterers' union asleep in their apartment. They also shot the plasterers' bulldog. Once, for diversion, Gurino and four other gorillas abducted a nightclub singer, took her to a vacant lot and raped her. They didn't kill her. They gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Terrified Torpedo | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

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