Word: maggio
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1929-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...whatever news it can find or rehash, throws an edition into print and out upon the streets ahead of competitors, that edition is a "bulldog" edition. Chicago's Herald & Examiner ("Herex") publishes a "bulldog" edition on Sunday afternoons. Last week this edition carried a story about one Rocco Maggio, badman. "Herex" said Maggio would stand trial next day on a statutory (sex) offense against a 14-year-old girl whom he had since married...
...Their [the state's] primary intention is to engage in a strafing attack that will eventually convince Maggio that deportation to Sicily, as once ordered, is not so bad after all. . . . Commissioner Stege has described him as the most dangerous criminal in Chicago...
Confused and annoyed was "Herex" to learn next day that should dangerous Badman Maggio return to Sicily, it would be in a horizontal position. He had been murdered two months before. "Herex" itself had played up his death story...