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resident, testified that she was in the building at the time of the shooting and that she had seen
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Garrity, a woman he claimed had never seen before, entered his home with Driscoll following closely behind her. He closed the door behind her and then Driscoll firing his pistol through an opening just below the upper hinge.
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Garrity and had no weapon on him but was taken into custody and held at the Mulberry Street
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Driscoll had been attempting to tunnel out of his cell. He was guarded by Inspector Williams and 75 police officers for the remainder of his time in The Tombs. He was allowed to see his
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Driscoll interrupted court proceedings claiming that he himself was unarmed at the time of the incident and that McCarty was the only one who could have shot Garrity. Driscoll then addressed the court.
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during the murder trial of Beezy Garrity and was later executed there.
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