Brooklyn Eagle, October 10, 1941, p. 15
Daily News, Batavia, October 10, 1941, p. 4
Hudson Register, October 10, 1941, p.8
Poughkeepsie Eagle, October 10, 1941, p.9
Washington Post, October 10, 1941, p. 2
Unidentified Paper, October 10, 1941
Weegee, Naked City, 1945, pp.86-87
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
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
Salamanca Republican Press, October 11, 1941, p.7
Naked City, 1945, pp.86-87
A woman relative cried… but neighborhood dead-end kinds enjoyed the show when a small-time racketeer was shot and killed.
Washington Post, October 10, 1941, p.2
Poughkeepsie Eagle News, October 10, 1941, p.9
Hudson Register, October 10, 1941
The Daily News Batavia, October 10, 1941, p.4
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
DARTED and LIQUIDATED
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…”
Weegee Daily, October 9, 2013
Brooklyn Dog Walkers See Photographer Standing in Street. Approximate location of Their First Murder…
Intersection of Roebling St. and N. Sixth St., Brooklyn. Approximate location where Peter Mancuso was shot in a 1931 Ford… Sidewalk where the slayer fled toward N. Seventh St… The entrance of the former P.S. 143…
New York Daily News, October 9, 1941
“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.”
To be continued…
