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That's what finally happened on this job on Tremont Avenue and 177th Street in the Bronx . It was a store full of silk . We had been looking it over for a couple of weeks , and it looked like a cinch . It didn't even have a Holmes alarm ...
That's what finally happened on this job on Tremont Avenue and 177th Street in the Bronx . It was a store full of silk . We had been looking it over for a couple of weeks , and it looked like a cinch . It didn't even have a Holmes alarm ...
Page 124
a tured a foiled elopement , an attempted suicide , and , finally , the intervention of Vito Genovese himself : When I was in the attic , Mildred would come up the steps through sort of a trapdoor and talk to me .
a tured a foiled elopement , an attempted suicide , and , finally , the intervention of Vito Genovese himself : When I was in the attic , Mildred would come up the steps through sort of a trapdoor and talk to me .
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The trial finally began with Mauro and Caruso still fugitives . " This , " Valachi says , “ made me the main guy . " He admits knowing the government's chief witness , a " workman " for Mauro named Salvatore Rinaldo .
The trial finally began with Mauro and Caruso still fugitives . " This , " Valachi says , “ made me the main guy . " He admits knowing the government's chief witness , a " workman " for Mauro named Salvatore Rinaldo .
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| Title | The Valachi Papers Bantam books |
| Author | Peter Maas |
| Edition | 9 |
| Publisher | Putnam, 1968 |
| ISBN | 0399108327, 9780399108327 |
| Length | 285 pages |
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