A forgotten New York story, heybonanos writes
Photo: New York Daily Mirror, New York Herald Tribune, New York Post, The New York Sun It was near closing time at Barney Pressman’s men’s store on January 2, the first working day of 1937. Returns, after-Christmas purchases — an ordinary Saturday. Then, at 8:10 p.m., the gangsters came through the door.
Now the Pressmans needed a real police call. Five crooks had arrived at the store in a pair of automobiles. Two of the robbers carried tommy guns — submachine guns, the kind with drum magazines that you see in old movies of the Capone era — on their shoulders and had pistols in their hands. One guy, wearing a gray fedora, shouted, “It’s a stickup!” He pushed 30 clerks and 60 customers to the rear of the store.
Accusations flew, the fight escalated, and Lipschitz knocked La-La unconscious with the butt of a gun. Dunn, who was known to have a temper, probably put up a bigger fight, and Krusky shot him to death. Hours later, when the police made their way to the apartment, they found empty Barney’s pay envelopes scattered about. Dunn was clutching one of them in his hand.
Krusky and Lipschitz were found first and brought back to New York. A couple of days later, police made their way down a fire escape into Mullen’s mother’s apartment, where they found him sleeping on the dining-room floor. After he was hauled into the police station, he collapsed during the lineup. From there, he went the prison ward at Bellevue, where he made a few telephone calls. Stupidly, one of those calls was to Stella, and the police traced the number and picked him up.
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