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“I’d like to see his face when he comes for it,” Coffin Ed said.
“Yeah, there’s going to be some arteries bursting for sure.”
Two days later, the New York Herald Tribune Fresh Air Fund, which sends New York City boys of all races and creeds on vacations in the country during the summer, received an anonymous cash donation of $50,000. The executives of the fund didn’t bat an eye; they were used to this kind of money.
On the same day, as he was about to leave the hospital, Casper received an anonymous telegram.
It read: Crime doesn’t pay.
All Shot Up
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