Word: parisier
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Jack ("The Dandy") Parisi is a toadlike little man with amazingly large bags under his eyes and an unswerving penchant for flashy clothes. During the big years of New York's Murder, Inc., he made his living by shooting people. But though he finished off a lot of them, most of the details of his life remain obscure. Jack is not a talkative man. "If you hung him up by the thumbs for eight weeks," said a Bronx prosecutor, "he might tell you his first name...
...avoid being electrocuted at Sing Sing. It took place in 1939, after Gangbuster Tom Dewey slapped a subpoena on a onetime garment-union leader named Philip Orlofsky. Orlofsky knew a lot about the union rackets, and Mob Chieftain Louis ("Lepke") Buchalter was disturbed. He ordered Orlofsky's death. Parisi was chosen to do the honors...
...Twist") Reles, Harry ("Pittsburgh Phil") Strauss and Emanuel ("Mendy") Weiss spent weeks in planning. One Jacob Migdon spent a long time "fingering" the job, and reported that Orlofsky, a short, fat man, left his Bronx apartment at exactly 7:55 every morning. Thus, when the big day came, Parisi was standing near by at exactly the right time...
...everything went wrong. Parisi had no way of knowing that his victim had left 20 minutes early to get a barbershop shave. He just fired five shots into the first short, fat man who came out the door-it happened to be a music-publishing executive named Irving Penn. Penn screamed and collapsed, dying. Parisi jumped into a stolen getaway car, driven by one Seymour ("Blue Jaw") Magoon-and found that a gravel truck was blocking the street...
...police sirens moaned close by, Parisi cried: "Mamma mia, mamma mia, let me out of here." He jerked open the door and ran. Parisi dropped out of sight for ten long years. Last autumn the Pennsylvania State Police found him at last; he was napping on a bed surrounded by crucifixes and holy candles in his hideout house in the anthracite coal fields...