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

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