Word: gargotta
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...week, Charlie Binaggio had his bodyguard Nick Penna drive him over to the Last Chance Tavern, a gambling joint which straddles the Missouri-Kansas line so that when the heat is on in one state, the dice tables can be shoved over into the other. There he met Charlie Gargotta, a gunman who was his chief "enforcer." Soon they left. Penna got up to go along. "You don't need to. come, Nick," said Binaggio. "We'll be'back in 15 or 20 minutes...
...clock next morning, a cabbie left his cab near the First District Democratic Club to get a bite to eat. He heard water dripping inside the darkened club and called a cop. Just inside the door, they stumbled over Gargotta's body. He had clawed at the Venetian blind as he fell. Slumped in a chair at the desk, facing a big picture of Harry Truman, lay Charlie Binaggio. Someone had put a pistol close to his head, and fired four times. The water, coming from a clogged toilet in the hotel above, dripped on the bare floor...