Word: knifey
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...left on the Sawicki doorstep in Chicago when he was three days old. The Sawickis christened him Bernard. He soon got a different name for himself-Knifey. "Bernie has always been a bad boy," said Anna Sawicki. "I'm sorry I ever took him in-he'd be better off dead." Once he told his foster mother: "Don't ever put a hand on me, or I'll knock your teeth...
...foster father used to beat him regularly, but Knifey didn't care. He was a tough...
Three years ago, when the cops first caught Knifey stealing, they listed him as a boy of "superior intelligence." Knifey had a flair for mechanics. A home for wayward boys took charge of him, put him on a farm near Momence, 40 miles south of Chicago. There Knifey broke into the home of a neighbor, eccentric old Farmer Henry Allain, who was always pottering about with inventions. So they sent Knifey to St. Charles reform school for boys. A year ago he was paroled for good behavior...
...last week 19-year-old Knifey Sawicki ran amuck. He turned up in Momence, walked out to Henry Allain's farm. He found the 72-year-old farmer working in a field. Knifey shot him dead, hid the body behind a pump. "He got me sent to St. Charles," said Knifey. "Put the finger on me, the stinking squealer...
...Knifey hitchhiked back to Chicago, looked up a couple of pals he had met at reform school, Charles Kwasinski and Clarence Schwark. Standing on a street corner, Knifey suggested sticking up a hotel. "Nuts to you," said Kwasinski as he made a grab for Knifey's gun. Knifey let him have it, left him mortally wounded on the street. "They're punks," said Knifey. "I fired at the other goof too, but I missed...