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Weegee Daily… January 16, 1943… Gunman Doesn’t Want His Picture Taken…

January 16, 2013
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PM Daily, January 16, 1941, Vol. 1, No. 152, p. 32
Gunman Doesn’t Want His Picture Taken
For the first time since Bruno Hauptmann, police today permitted photographers in the line-up room at headquarters. The subject was Anthony Esposito, under indictment with his brother, William for the murder of a business man and a policeman in Tuesday’s tragic Battle of Fifth Ave. The angry gunman ducked after Weegee took the above.

The detectives, manacled to Esposito, didn’t want their names or pictures in the papers. They obliged by turning around, holding the gunman by head and arm so he couldn’t duck again. The yard-stick (top photo) is on the line-up platform, where Esposito had stood, refusing to answer question. “He looked like a sullen, surly, snarling animal,” Weegee reported. “He stumbled and sagged over to one side like a drunk.”

Photos by Weegee, PM Staff


Weegee Daily, January 16, 2013

We returned to the scene of the crime, 365 Fifth Ave., the former B. Altman & Co building… We followed the route of the “vicious movie-type Dead End Kids, gun-toters in their teens” gunmen, where the first murder occurred, from 6 East 34th St, (building is now gone). Then the two gunmen ran across the street and entered Altman’s, ran through Altman’s and left through a Madison Ave. exit. Then they ran around to Fifth Ave., in front of a five and dime… Ghosts are all that remain…
Weegee “reporting” again…
Photos by Ceegee, WD Staff

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Weegee Daily… December 3, 1941

December 3, 2012
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PM Daily, December 3, 1941

You’ve Often Wondered What It Would be Like If One of Those Things Fell…
This is what… Rigging used to lift a boiler from a truck pulled the fire escape from the wall..
…yanking a big hunk of masonry out of the side of the house at 61st St. and Second Ave…
…allowing the boiler to crash to the sidewalk. Nobody was hurt.
PM Photos by Weegee

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61st St. and Second Ave…

Weegee Daily… November 24, 1941

November 24, 2012
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Weegee, PM Daily, 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 mangaer of the lunchroom.
PM Photo by Weegee


Weegee Daily, November 24, 2012, – Approximate location
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Footnote, or, after a few minutes of Googling, two similar, yet slightly different accounts:

The Herald Statesman, Yonkers, N.Y., Monday, November 24, 1941, p. 5


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


Weegee Daily, November 24, 2012 – Approximate location
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Weegee Daily… October 6, 1941

October 6, 2012
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Weegee, PM Daily, October 6, 1941

Hoarding for Winter on one of the hottest days of the year, this squirrel is perfectly oblivious to the shoeless sleeper in Battery Park. Weegee, who took this PM photo, said the leaves were falling all over the man, but he slept right on through the chatter of squirrels, the photographer’s flash and the heat.


Ceegee, Weegee Daily, October 6, 2012

Hoarding for winter on one of the unseasonably warmest days of the year, this squirrel is perfectly oblivious to the fenced in, treeless tree in Battery Park. Ceegee, who took the WD photo, said the leaves were falling all over the tree, but it stood right on through the chatter of squirrels, the photographer’s flash and the unseasonable warmth.

70 Years Ago Today…

November 27, 2011
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“His Master Died
in this room which was shattered by the blast of an illuminating-gas explosion last night, but a black shepherd dog Freca, was uninjured by either the gas or the explosion. Police say Thomas Quinn, 31, a commercial artist, was found lying in front of a gas stove with all the jets open in his West 26th Street apartment, but failed to make either a suicide or accident listing. Freca hid behind a small piano. PM photos by Weegee

PM Daily, Noveber 27, 1941

70 Years Ago Today… Mongrel Pup Almost Dies Saving 16 Families in Fire…

November 11, 2011
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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 Daily, November 17, 1941, p. 18