"He must have done something. They don't kill you for nothing." - Chicago Gangster Ted Newberry. Rubbed out January 7, 1933

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Draggin' Heart

On this date the year that Frankenstein with Boris Karloff hit the movie houses, Charles Pasquino was found in a remote part of the Bronx at the bottom of a nineteen-foot embankment. A bloody trail in the unpaved road showed where he was dragged from a car and tossed down the mound. Like the majority of ride victims he had been shot behind the left ear. Two other bullets had pierced his left arm and neck. His record showed that he had been arrested twice in 1922 for grand larceny,

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