Word: ricchebuono
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...Genevieve Potocki, ordered a round of drinks, beat and bit Mrs. Potocki and a companion, then charged the two women with running a disorderly establishment. The trial of another vice squad member ended last week with his acquittal. He was Walter V. Ambraz, who testified that Mrs. Rosa H. Ricchebuono, a plump French-Canadian woman who said she was the niece of a Canadian Bishop, had beckoned to him from her window. Mrs. Ricchebuono's story was that she was waving good-bye to her husband...
Rosa Helen Ricchebuono, French-Canadian sister of a nun and two Catholic priests, lived obscurely with her hard-working husband Bernard in a cheap flat on Manhattan's dark, noisy Third Avenue, near 43rd Street. When Bernard would go out evenings to solicit insurance, big, broad-faced Rosa would wave a loving farewell to him from the window. One stifling summer night last year Bernard had gone out and Rosa, after a bath, was puttering about her kitchen in a loose gown. Through the open door strode a great, bullish...
...intruder twisted Rosa Ricchebuono's arm, forced her against a wall, tried to throw her on the bed. She tried to scream. The man, a policeman from the Vice Squad, clapped his hand over her mouth and snapped: "Keep quiet. You're under arrest.'" Excited neighbors buzzed about as other police arrived, dragged Mrs. Ricchebuono to the station house on a charge of prostitution. For two days and nights Mrs. Ricchebuono was locked up while Bernard scurried around, trying frantically but futilely to raise $500 bail. Meanwhile a probation officer had investigated the case, found no evidence...
Last week the Ricchebuono case got big black headlines in New York City as another example of the kind of justice meted out to New Yorkers by the courts of Tammany Hall. Many a similar case had been ferreted out by busy little Isidor Jacob Kresel, able prosecutor for a judicial inquiry into Manhattan's inferior criminal courts (TIME, Dec. 29). The endless list of Tammany scandals assumed even greater poignancy when Prosecutor Kresel produced the record of one Mary Felder, accused by six witnesses of shoplifting, who was twice brought before Magistrate Silbermann, twice dismissed. Her lawyer...
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