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Unferocious. During Prohibition, Lane became the Daily News gangster specialist. He was creating an Oxie technique then. He snickered at the gangsters by inventing unferocious nicknames for them: "Greasy Thumb" Gusik, "Loudmouth" Levine, "Violet" Fusco. (Fusco's pals thereafter sent him bunches of violets...
...Gangster Jeremiah Sullivan, 46, last week gave a New York Supreme Court judge a tough question to ponder. Strongarm man Sullivan, convicted of coercion, asked that a three-year reformatory sentence be changed to a one-year straight prison term. Reminding the court that he lost his civil rights when he was found guilty of second-degree murder in 1918, ex-Convict Sullivan contended: "You cannot reform a person who has no rights...
...came out. Cocky Racketeer Costello conceded that he had been a bootlegger, rumrunner, slot-machine magnate, betting commissioner, had spent ten months in the workhouse for illegal possession of a gun, had paid no income taxes on his lush rakeoffs for 13 years. He knew almost every big-name gangster of recent history: Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, Dutch Schultz, "Trigger Mike" Cappola. But he added: "I had bundles of real important friends of mine...
Aurelio polled 267,000 votes, won even though his two opponents polled a higher total between them. A State Supreme Court Justice had been named, not by the district's 630,000 voters, but by one gangster...
Died. John Wilson Dillinger, 79, father of the 1930s' ill-famed John Dillinger; in Indianapolis. To pay his gangster son's funeral expenses, the sad-faced Mooresville, Ind. farmer went on a criminological lecture tour a few days after the son was shot dead by G-men in Chicago...