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...hunt ended one cold evening in The Bronx. She walked up to the second floor of the city's big, red brick Lincoln Hospital, and let herself into the incubator room. There was no nurse in sight. She opened an incubator's glass cover, lifted out a tiny, naked Negro baby, and slipped it under her coat. She was back out on the dark streets long before a horrified nurse discovered the loss...
When he returned to Manhattan to address the Ulster-Irish Society, "1,000 pickets serenaded him with The Bronx cheer. He seemed as unruffled as ever. What were his plans? He thought he would go to Canada for a bit of fishing-"If I'm not killed with kindness first...
...York's Murder, Inc., he made his living by shooting people. But though he finished off a lot of them, most of the details of his life remain obscure. Jack is not a talkative man. "If you hung him up by the thumbs for eight weeks," said a Bronx prosecutor, "he might tell you his first name...
...Fingers. Everything was handled with great care. Gangsters Albert ("Big Albert") Anastasia, Abe ("Kid Twist") Reles, Harry ("Pittsburgh Phil") Strauss and Emanuel ("Mendy") Weiss spent weeks in planning. One Jacob Migdon spent a long time "fingering" the job, and reported that Orlofsky, a short, fat man, left his Bronx apartment at exactly 7:55 every morning. Thus, when the big day came, Parisi was standing near by at exactly the right time...
After that Parisi was transferred from a jail in Brooklyn to jail in The Bronx, waiting to be tried for killing Irving Penn. But it looked very much as though he might beat the rap again. One thing was certain: Jack would not talk. The law, by cleaning up the old charges, seemed only to be helping Parisi get back into circulation-and in his business, there were always job openings for close-mouthed...