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...dresser drawer to fetch the pistol, but this time neither his father nor anyone else knew anything about it, and Bobby himself was not sure of what he was going to do with it. Downstairs, Bobby's father and mother were staring at another pistol, held by a thug who called himself Wally...
...plan. He was going to take all three of them to the bank, said the bandit, and hold the boy and Mrs. Kuhel hostage while the father fetched out $75,000 in greenbacks. As his father, stalling for time, pointed out flaws in the arrangement, Bobby had asked the thug if he might go to the bathroom. Too busy arguing with the father to care about the boy, Wally waved him away. That was when Bobby got the gun. When Bobby came downstairs a moment later, Wally marched all three of them out to the family car, ordered Kuhel...
When the New York Daily Mirror's syndicated labor expert left a radio broadcast in Manhattan late one April night, he and his party were trailed to Lindy's restaurant by sallow-faced Gondolfo Miranti, 37, an ex-convict and garment-industry thug with a long record of arrests. From the next table, Miranti kept an eye on the group. As they prepared to leave, he moved swiftly outside, whispered urgently to Telvi, who stood in the shadows. Seconds later, Riesel emerged, and Telvi stepped forward...
...concentrated sulphuric acid hit Riesel right across the eyes, but the fallout from the wide-mouthed bottle sent corrosive little splashes into Telvi's own face. With Miranti's help, the thug rushed for hiding to his girl friend's Manhattan apartment. There Telvi was visited by Joe Carlino, 43, a stocky ex-convict with manicured fingernails. It was Carlino. acting for an "undisclosed principal," who had made the "contract" for Telvi's job, supplied him with the acid, and collected...
...wasn't too long ago that people could be found in the U.S. who thought the cussed Bolsheviks hadn't a single thing that they had not gotten from espionage. How they get things matters not. If you are nailed by a thug, does it matter if he stole his gun, bought it, or invented it himself...