“…Killed in Brooklyn…”

New York Times, October 9, 1941, p.13

DICE GAME OPERATOR KILLED IN BROOKLYN; Youth of 22 Shot After Fight — Recently on Parole

Peter Mancuso, 22 years old, of 7505 Fifteenth Avenue, Brooklyn, described by the police as an oper- ator of Sunday dice games in the streets of the Greenpoint district, was shot and killed at 3 P. M. yesterday as he was about to park an automobile near the sidewalk at Roebling and North Sixth Streets, Brooklyn.

Two men were seen running from the scene of the shooting by Patrol- man Theodore Hanson, who left his traffic post at Roebling and North Fifth Streets when a passer-by re- ported a fight on the block where the shooting took place. Patrol- man Hanson chased the men, but they escaped. The Rev. Stanislaus Smulski of St. Vincent de Paul’s Roman Cath- olic Church, in the neighborhood, administered the last rites to Mancuso. The police said he might have been shot by a disgruntled partner in the gambling racket, which netted about $20 a week. Mancuso recently was discharged from parole after three years in prison for robbery of a milkman in 1938. The car in which the shooting took place was owned by Vito Pellicciro of 230 South Fourth Street, Brooklyn, who said he had left Mancuso shortly before the shooting to do some shopping.
New York Times, October 9, 1941, p.13