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that at the end of your prison term you will go out and commit more. It is a wrong to the community that you should be so set at liberty, and it is a wrong to you that you should be allowed to follow your course without restraint.' One of the parents of my young man—he was barely twenty-one—told me tearfully that he was a good boy, the best of boys, but that he had been in bad company and tempted too far. Before he had served out his term his parent came to me again to tell me that now he had promised to reform and how well he was doing. I still had my doubts.
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During the trial, the three defendants claimed
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Three or four years ago, when I was sitting in special sessions, my associates and I had occasion to sentence a young man who had been found guilty of petty larceny. In pronouncing sentence I said: 'I am convinced from the evidence that has been brought out here that you are lacking in moral sense,
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parents. He was a slight figure, standing just under 5 feet 5 inches (1.65 m) and weighing 140 pounds (64 kg). but extraordinarily strong. He bragged that to win a $ 2 bet, he had broken a man's back in three places. He served prison terms for burglary and robbery.
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The defendants were named in the indictment as Frank Muller, alias Whitey Louis, alias Whitey Jack, alias Louis
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included a piece titled "'Gyp the Blood' or Hearst!? Which Is worst?!," inviting a comparison between the gangster and publishing magnate
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wrote a song called "Gyp The Blood", which appears to be based on him. A character nicknamed Gyp the Blood appears in a book by
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He is a cheat and a sharper and has been convicted as such. It would be futile for us to deny this, but he is not a murderer."
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But He was Good to His Mother: The Lives and Crimes of Jewish Gangsters
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Smith, Alfred Emanuel; Walton, Francis (February 8, 1913).
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People executed by New York (state) by electric chair
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King of the Jews: The Greatest Mob Story Never Told
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422:"Three of the Men Hunted as Rosenthal's Slayers"
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817:. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983.
986:Burials at Mount Zion Cemetery (New York City)
971:People convicted of murder by New York (state)
845:. Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow Press, 1986.
712:"Last Statements Made by Three of the Gunmen"
445:"Sullivan was there When Rosenthal Shot Down"
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