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...there are some organized crime syndicates working in this country--groups that make the Mafia and the old Murder Inc. look juvenile. They are headed by men who are clever enough to keep the Suttons out of their way. As the case stands now, Willy will end his days behind stone walls, lips sealed--not because he won't talk, but because he has nothing to say. Sutton knows how to save his skin, and if he knew anything about Schuster's death, he'd spill it. Honor among thieves is a phrase as out-dated as the cliche about...
...neighbors in Brooklyn said that the honest, hard-working, little suit salesman, who had sen Willie Sutton by chance and turned him in as any civic minded citizen would do, seemed to be living beyond his known means. These sidelights were just filler to pad out the hot story of the day. But they were interesting filler...
Once the police had Sutton the Celebrated, they tried to tack on him every big, unsolved robbery in the country. The first was the famous Brink's case. They decided that if anyone had master-minded the artful dodge, it was the Actor. But Willy didn't give them much help. He remained silent after a short denial. And the police couldn't find any other link between Sutton and the masked marauders. But there was another sort of link. And under the circumstances, it's hard to escape these conclusions: 1) Willy Sutton had nothing to do with...
...course, possible that Willy might have had Schuster shot in retaliation. But a supposition like this proves that either the police didn't know Sutton very well, or that Sutton had changed since the days of his Philadelphia jailbreak. As the youngest comic-book fan of Gangbusters will testify, Willy was never a man for violence, especially killing...
...more likely that the Brink's gang, not Sutton, had Schuster shot for two reasons: to get him off their necks and to put suspicion for the Brink's job on Willy. Since the police were already trying to pin it on him, the murder would seem to be Willy's way of warning people not to testify at his trial. It almost worked...