Word: acra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Strasmick whose program name was Kiki Roberts. It generally turned out that whereas Diamond was shot in bed with Miss Roberts, it was Mrs. Diamond who nursed him through his convalescence. Mrs. Diamond was not only immensely good-natured. She was a great joker. In their summer home near Acra she rigged up an electric chair. Her husband was against the idea. In December 1931 Diamond was acquitted of the charge of torturing an up- state cider truckman. He left Mrs. Diamond and some friends who were giving him a party to attend a "press conference...
...jury of indignant farmers to decide the Scaccio case. Verdict: guilty. Gangster Scaccio faces a minimum imprisonment of ten years. He and his chief will be tried in Manhattan this week for conspiracy to violate the Prohibition Act. Last week Diamond was at his fortified home in Acra, N. Y. He did not appear to testify for his henchman...
...last time he was ambushed?in a Manhattan hotel last October?Gangster Diamond recovered, left town, went to his Acra, N. Y., country place where he planned to run Greene County's big bootlegging business. This ambition led to his indictment, fortnight ago, for torturing a Greene County truck driver who would not tell Diamond and another hoodlum where he was taking a load of cider (TIME, May 4). Three days later came the second attempt on Gangster Diamond's life...
...soon as he got on the Diamond case things began humming. Two Diamond henchmen were arrested; the Acra house was raided. Attorney General Benne.lt dug up another assault charge against the racketeer, found weapons in his automobile. With these counts, a previous conviction for burglary and an old sentence for deserting the Army against Diamond, Attorney General Bennett hopes to send him to jail under the Baumes Law for life as a fourth offender...
...Cicero and Acra are different. Cicero has always been a tawdry, hard-boiled village of Sicilians and "blind pigs." Acra is a clean little Catskill settlement. Cider and applejack are home industries in that countryside. Last week Acra set about to rid itself of the slick, racketeering little rat that had run to it from the big city...