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Word: peyson (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fisherman who said he saw them hove to about 10 at night with a larger craft alongside. Then a man's body, bound and strapped to a 98-lb. chunk of iron, washed ashore in the Trinidad Yacht Club's bay. The victim was identified as Philbert Peyson, member of an organized gang of burglars, holdup men-and possibly pirates. There was reason to believe that he was under suspicion by his fellow gangsters as an informer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blood & Plunder | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

...leader of the gang to which Peyson belonged, the rumor went, was burly, 180-lb. Boysie Singh, alias Julie Mama. Like Blackbeard, who braided ribbons into his beard and went into action with smoldering fuses behind his ears, Singh knows the value of a proper appearance. During the war, when he owned a string of nightclubs, he wore a ten-gallon hat, a sharply draped zoot suit, and numerous rings. More recently he has assumed the role of owner of a modest fishing fleet and prefers a fisherman's sweater and khaki trousers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blood & Plunder | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

This week Sonny was free on bail on a charge of attempted robbery; father Singh and three associates were in jail, charged with Philbert Peyson's murder. With sighs of relief, fishermen and smugglers put back to sea in the Gulf of Paria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blood & Plunder | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

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