“…shot through the head and the heart…”

PM, October 9, 1941 p.15

Brooklyn School Children See Gambler Murdered in Street

Pupils were just leaving P.S. 143, in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, at 3:15 yesterday when Peter Mancuso, 22, described by police as a small-time gambler, pulled up in a 1931 Ford at a traffic light a block from the school. Up to the car stepped a gunman, who fired twice and escaped through the throng of children. Mancuso, shot through the head and the heart, struggled to the running board and collapsed dead on the pavement. Above are some of the spectators…
PM, October 9, 1941 p.15

Brooklyn Eagle, October 9, 1941, p.3

Buffalo Courier-Express, October 9, 1941, p.1

Washington Post, October 9, 1941, p.2

The Knickerbocker News, October 9, 1941, p.9