Life And Death of a Tough Guy (1955)
“Later, the dicks clomped into that same hallway, climbed to the second floor, questioned the Bug’s girl, and climbed downstairs again. “Who killed Bughead Moore?” the boys with the badges were asking all over the West Side.
Nobody knew and everybody knew. Then one of the nobodies phoned the police with an anonymous tip. They hauled Joey Kasow in on an August afternoon. “You got nothin’ on me,” he repeated until the dicks who’d heard that song of innocence from a hundred other suspects in a hund...red other homicides felt like knocking it off his lips. They didn’t lay a finger on Joey Kasow though. He was one of Spotter Boyle’s Young Democrats. He had an organization behind him, and the coppers respected organization.
The Spotter’d put Joey through the third degree himself, but all he got was a big no. “Not me, Spotter, not me. Sure, I’m glad he’s dead, but it wasn’t me. Not me when you said we shouldn’t. Honest to God, Spotter, all I know’s what I read inna papers.”MoreLess
Nobody knew and everybody knew. Then one of the nobodies phoned the police with an anonymous tip. They hauled Joey Kasow in on an August afternoon. “You got nothin’ on me,” he repeated until the dicks who’d heard that song of innocence from a hundred other suspects in a hund...red other homicides felt like knocking it off his lips. They didn’t lay a finger on Joey Kasow though. He was one of Spotter Boyle’s Young Democrats. He had an organization behind him, and the coppers respected organization.
The Spotter’d put Joey through the third degree himself, but all he got was a big no. “Not me, Spotter, not me. Sure, I’m glad he’s dead, but it wasn’t me. Not me when you said we shouldn’t. Honest to God, Spotter, all I know’s what I read inna papers.”MoreLess
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