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Just on the stroke of midnight in an underground barbershop in Times Square, Martin Krompier, Flegenheimer's right-hand man, found himself staring at a figure with a drawn gun. The gunman blew a hole in the ceiling to warn other occupants of the shop to scatter. Then he plugged Krompier four times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Triple Zero | 11/4/1935 | See Source »

...revolver as an instrument of settling jurisdictional disputes. From his Newark hideout he had sent an emissary to Manhattan several weeks ago.This emissary had never returned, and word had gone round that he was to be found in a barrel of cement on the bottom of the Hudson River. Krompier was supposed to have been on a second goodwill mission when he was shot in the Times Square barbershop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Triple Zero | 11/4/1935 | See Source »

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