Word: torpedoes
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...through childhood, prohibition, most major rackets, and police records. But his recent trouble began a few minutes before midnight on May 3. It was then that the doorman at 115 Central Park West greeted him and was almost immediately shoved aside by what the New York police termed a "torpedo...
...Said "torpedo" had emerged from a long black Cadillac whose lights were out. "Torpedo" watched Costello turn some fifteen feet in front of him, and then fired one shot from his .38 at Costello's head. The bullet entered Costello's head beneath his ear, wriggled through skin for a short distance, and emerged without having touched the bone. Then the real trouble began...
...enforcement agencies of New York were upset, as Costello would probably get to his assassin before the police--unless the assassin was killed by his disgusted employers first. One way or the other, the police stood to lose. Hopefully, they issued a description of a "torpedo" who weighs two hundred and thirty-five pounds, has a "pot belly," and "waddles when he walks...
...Confederate ironclad, Albemarle, at its anchorage in Plymouth, N.C. Several Union attempts to destroy the ironclad had already failed, and a garbled account of Cushing's plan was reported in Northern newspapers before he set out. With 14 men in a motor launch armed with a torpedo, plus a diversionary crew of 13 in a cutter, Cushing stole up the Roanoke River at night. The Albemarle's defenders were ready for him: they lit a giant bonfire which illuminated the river and revealed that the ironclad was newly protected against torpedo attack by a boom of logs that...
...hail of musket fire that tore off the sole of his left shoe and ripped out the back of his uniform. The boat breasted the logs and hung suspended, just 10 ft. from the muzzle of one of the ironclad's 8-in. guns. Carefully, Cushing lowered the torpedo into position and gently pulled the 25-ft. line that released the firing pin. Simultaneously, the torpedo exploded...