Word: peddlers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Looking it over one day early this year, a hard-eyed little dope peddler named...
...pattern of his operation began to unfold. A cop dressed as a workman bumped into Rubino one day in a corridor near a dynamo room. "What are you doing here?" the peddler demanded. The 'cop mumbled: "I'm looking for the mess hall." Rubino growled: "Well, this isn't it, so get the hell out of here." The cop left but returned to spy later. Rubino met from three to seven customers a day, walked them around the hospital grounds to the powerhouse and left the buyer holding the dog's leash, while he scuttled inside...
...package of "horse," as heroin is known to the trade, retrieved his dog and walked calmly back to the waiting room. Last week, however, he kept his'last rendezvous; the cops jumped him, just after he had handed half an ounce of pure heroin to one Arthur Ricardi. Peddler Rubino fell into a writhing fit on the station-house floor, while Customer Ricardi (see cut) watched him with the telltale yawn of the addict who needs a shot. After an injection of heroin, Rubino talked...
...Brooklyn student testified that a boy dope peddler in his high school boasted of making from $300 to $400 a day. "I used to be the bookie in the school," said the witness. "He lost enough money to me so he should be telling the truth...
...doctor in St. Joseph, Missouri gave him morphine. Danny had been an insecure, troubled child longer than he could remember-both his mother & father died before he was five. At 16, Danny knew nothing about psychology, but he knew that the "shot" gave him a lift. From a peddler he got morphine regularly for six months; then he lost his contact and could get no more. He became weak, nauseated, sweaty, shaky and depressed. Danny was sent to a state hospital...