Word: gattuccio
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Dates: during 1936-1936
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...picturesque gaffer, who traveled for years about California in a cart drawn by three burros, 74-year-old Peter Voiss supplemented the meagre income he made from prospecting by posing for snapshots. Two months ago, when Dentist Jasper Gattuccio refused to pay for taking a picture, Prospector Voiss shot him dead (TIME, May 11). On trial for murder last week, the whiskery oldster sat calmly in a San José. Calif, court while his attorney argued: "Dr. Gattuccio brought about his own death by stealing an old man's living for his own amusement. . . . The only home...
Near San Jose, Calif., Dentist Jasper Gattuccio came upon a rickety old cart drawn by a brace of burros, saw in it a picturesquely gnarled, full-bearded gaffer, delightedly got out his camera to snap a picture. From the wagon jumped Peter Voiss, 74, to collect a 50? fee, explaining that he eked out his meagre income as a prospector by posing for pictures. Dentist Gattuccio refused to pay, took the pi:ture, later returned to take another. As Jasper Gattuccio clicked the shutter, Peter Voiss reached into his wagon for a shotgun, shot him dead. Prospector Voiss was bundled...
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