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1941

“Cop Kills Holdup Man”

November 24, 2024
1941, PM


PM, November 24, 1941, p.13

Cop Kills Holdup Man:

A few minutes after he had held up an Essex Street lunchroom on the Lower East Side and shot a patron, Vincent Mannuzza, 31, was lying dead at the feet of the cop who shot him. Patrolman Laurence Cramer, right, shot and killed Mannuzza, after a two-block chase and is shown handing the gunman’s revolver to Sgt. Eugene Morland. The $20 loot taken from the restaurant lies in Mannuzza’s hat at his side. An ambulance surgeon crouches over the dead man who was shot in he head and back. Mannuzza shot a customer, Adam Zayko, 50, when he refused to go into the back room with two other customers and the manager of the lunchroom.
PM Photo by Weegee
PM, November 24, 1941, p.13


“Dreamsville, Ohio”; Charlie Spivak and his Orch.; Jean Hutton; Lee; Rinker; Freeland; Okeh (6518); Publication date: November 24, 1941


The Niagara Falls Gazette, Monday, November 24, 1941, p. 22


Brooklyn Eagle, November 24, 1941, p.3


Long Island Daily Press, November, 24, 1941, p.1


Richmond Record, November 24, 1941,

“…Pup Almost Dies…”

November 17, 2024
1941, PM


“Coming Out Party”; Count Basie and his Orchestra; Ebbins; Okeh (6564); Publication date: November 17, 1941


PM, November 17, 1941, p.18

Mongrel Pup Almost Dies Saving 16 Families in Fire
Jerry, mongrel collie, was overcome by smoke in a fish store at 210 E. 10th St., but not before he attracted the attention of a passerby.

When the ambulance arrived an intern gave the unconscious pup an injection and continued treatments until he regained his senses. Sixteen families made their escape from apartments above the store, due to Jerry’s warning.

John Lamanna, Jerry’s owner, tenderly carries him off wrapped in a blanket. The intern said the dog would recover.
PM Photos by Weegee”
PM, November 17, 1941


“More Than You Know”; Count Basie and his Orchestra; Lynne Sherman; Eliscu; W. Rose; Youmans; Winter; Okeh (6584); Publication date: November 17, 1941

“Brooklyn School Children See Gambler Murdered in Street”

October 9, 2024
1941, PM


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…


Brooklyn Eagle, October 9, 1941, p.3

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New York Daily News, October 9, 1941

LONE GUNMAN KILLS GAMBLER IN AUTOMOBILE

A small-time Brooklyn gambler, Peter Mancuso, 23, was slain at 3:20 P.M. yesterday when he stopped his car at the crowded intersection of Roebling St. and N. Sixth St., Brooklyn.

A lone assailant darted up to the car and liquidated Mancuso with two bullets fired at close range through the open front window…

One bullet hit Mancuso in the head, another in the heart. With a dying effort he got the door of the car open and toppled into the street…

Meanwhile, P.S. 143, a block away, on Havermeyer St., was just letting out. The slayer dashed down N. Seventh St. heading for the school and zig-zagged among the crowds of children… the fugitive darted into Havermeyer St. and disappeared.


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


Washington Post, October 9, 1941


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


“I Know Why (And So Do You)”; Carl Hoff and his Orchestra; Tony Russell; Gordon; Warren; Okeh (6478); Publication date: October 9, 1941

“Spring Scene”

August 5, 2024
1941, Murder Inc., PM


“Let’s Go Home”; Charlie Spivak and his Orch.; S. Williams; Holland; Burke; Okeh (6366); Publication date: August 5, 1941


PM, August 5, 1941, pp.18-20

The Rise and Fall of Lepke Buchalter
Climax of O’Dwyer War on Murder, Inc.; One of City’s Biggest Racketeers on Trial
PM, August 5, 1941, p.18


PM, August 5, 1941, p.20 (PM Photo by Weegee)

Spring Scene And here’s what happened to Sidney (Shimmy) Shales last April. Shimmy was on the lam from a federal indictment linking him to 14 Lepke-ites. Early in the evening he was sauntering up Fifth Avenue when a bullet plowed into his thigh. The marksman then bent over him, jammed his gun against Shimmy’s temple and fired four more shots. None of the hundred who crowded around the corpse would say he had seen the killer. And Shimmy couldn’t.


“To Your Heart’s Content (Acercate Mas)”; Charlie Spivak and his Orch.; Farres; Okeh (6366); Publication date: August 5, 1941

Happy Birthday Weegee!!!

June 12, 2024
1941, PM


“Happy Birthday”; Eddie Davis and his Orchestra; Sittin’ In With (520); 1949


PM, March 2, 1941


“Happy, Happy Birthday Baby”; The Tune Weavers; Frank Paul’s Orch.; M. Sylvia; G. Lopez; Checker (872); 1957


PM, March 9, 1941

A picture with somebody in it sells better than a picture of a lifeless object. So Weegee sometimes puts himself in his picture-shooting them by “remote control.” Here he is posing as a “curious passerby” looking at the body of a Brooklyn murder victim found in trunk near the Gowanus Canal.
PM, March 9, 1941


“Happy Birthday To You”; Raymond Scott and his New Orchestra; Clyde Burke; M. J. Hill; Columbia (35864); November 29, 1940


“Happy Birthday”; Craven Edwards And his Lazy K-Ranch Boys; Len Stokes; Hill; Diamond (2007-A); June 1946


PM, March 9, 1941

Weegee makes friends readily. On a Chinatown assignment he got this New Year’s lucky wish from a Chinese girl. He has a photo of her painting it pinned above his bed (see picture on next page). It is characteristic of him to have his picture taken this way. The cigar is standard equipment.
PM, March 9, 1941


“Today Is Your Birthday”; The Enchanters; Buddy Lucas and his Band of Tomorrow; Bernstein; Levine; Odom; Geritz; Jubilee (5072); 1952


“Happy Birthday Father (From)”; Harry Tush and his Society Orchestra; Rondoliers; Avalon (502A)


PM, March 9, 1941

Weegee’s room shows his devotion to his job. On top of his regular radio is a police short-wave radio and a loudspeaker attached to it dangles over his bed. On the floor are his special “murder shoes” – at left – and his “snow shoes.” He keeps his “fire shoes” in his car. The wall decorations are examples of his work and certificates of awards for prize-winning pictures. The cardboard boxes at the extreme right are his disorderly “files.” The typewriter is his latest acquisition. He has recently taken up writing – a field in which he shows rather startling talent. We don’t know what the Flit is for.
PM, March 9, 1941


“Birthday Party”; Sil Austin; J. Collins; Mercury (71027); December 25, 1956

Happy Birthday Weegee…

“Holiday Accidents…”

August 31, 2023
1941, PM


PM, August 31, 1941

Holiday Accidents

took their toll as motorists started on their Labor Day week end… the Motor Vehicle Bureau says about 40 will die before Tuesday in New York State.