Word: fein
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thump, Splash. Reuben ("Ruby the Bookie") Markowitz was a fortyish Brooklynite known to his more naive acquaintances as a $90-a-week grocery clerk. But Fein knew better. Gloria quoted Fein as saying: " 'I had to meet him this afternoon to pay him the money I lost on the World Series. I met him at 4 o'clock. He came up here. We were talking. We had words and I shot...
...Fein asked her to help him dispose of the trunk. "I took a good drink of straight vodka, and then asked him was he sure the man was dead," Gloria testified. " 'Gloria, he's stone-cold dead,' " she quoted Fein. "He lifted the lid of the trunk and I saw part of an arm. I said. 'Spare me the gory details.'" Added Gloria: "I just wanted to be assured that I was not getting rid of a trunk with a live body...
...Fein asked Gloria to get a friend to help. "Why call a friend?" she demanded. "I'm strong." "But Gloria," protested Fein, "the trunk is very heavy." Gloria called two friends-Geri Boxer, 22, who described herself as a copywriter with a psychology degree from Fairleigh Dickinson University, and David Broudy, 32, a onetime cabbie and hairdresser. Gloria then sent Fein home "because he was in pretty bad shape," drove to the Harlem River with the others and pushed the trunk in. "There was a thump and a splash," she said. When the body surfaced, there was an even...
...story but not all of it. Geri Boxer, who said she became friendly with Gloria because she is "accomplished in a lot of respects a college girl wouldn't be," said she helped dump the trunk but did not know what was in it. Broudy said Fein told him that someone else had shot the bookie...
...Kendal and her friends." Kleinman got her to admit that she had continued to ply her trade during two Carriages, that she had once had "a romantic attachment with a female," that she had given at least two accounts of the shooting, at one point denied to police that Fein had ever admitted shooting Ruby. But Gloria seemed rattled only when Kleinman, interested in how much she charged for her services, asked: "Your price was not $5?" Replied Gloria in a perfumed huff: "I should...