Word: triggerman
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Judge Pittman rejected that argument and found both Tekere and his triggerman guilty of murder, an offense punishable by hanging. But the judge was outvoted by his two nonwhite assessors -lower court magistrates who fulfill the jury's role of deciding on questions of fact under the judicial system inherited from Rhodesia. The split decision led to acquittal. Tekere, whose prestige among militant nationalists will now surely be enhanced, emerged brash and unrepentant from the trial. He pronounced himself "thoroughly disgusted" by what he considered Pittman's racial bias and called for an "overhauling" of the judiciary. Shrugging...
...years have been police informants and potential prosecution witnesses. But most have been mobsters. Among those killed were Sam Giancana, who abdicated as the Outfit's leader in 1965, and Richard Cain, an ex-cop who served as a top aide to Giancana. The latest to die was top Triggerman Charles (Chuck) Nicoletti, 62, an Accardo protégé. He caught three .38-cal. slugs in the head on March 29 while sitting in his blue Oldsmobile sedan outside the Golden Horns Restaurant in suburban Northlake. For good measure, the assassins fire-bombed...
Bigger Cut. The latest proposal for dipping into the culinary pot-reportedly cooked up by a Chicago Mafia triggerman named Tony Spilotro-called for founding a clinic-pharmacy where ailing union members would receive medical treatment and drugs. The Mob would skim off funds...
...York, the police check out a dozen possible Frankies and are convinced their man is Frankie Segarra, a small-time pusher. Other officers trace a dog-vaccination certificate that they found in the Plymouth to the girl friend of a Luis Serrano Velez. They think he is the triggerman. Her address lists the wrong street, but police check 507 East on every street in the area until they find her apartment at 507 East 13th Street. The police get a search warrant from a judge...
...rise in the crime organization built by Al Capone began in his teens on Chicago's West Side, where he was born in 1908, the son of an immigrant grocer. A grade-school dropout, he joined the Chicago Mob as a wheelman, or getaway driver, then graduated to triggerman. Convicted of moonshining in 1939, he managed to turn his four-year sentence to his advantage by cultivating the friendship of Edward Jones, the policy king of Chicago's South Side, who was serving time for income tax evasion. From Jones, Giancana learned that the city's black...