Whoever murdered the Prohibition-era gangster Jack Legs Diamond was never prosecuted for the crime.But William Kennedy, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who owns the 1857 house in Albany, N.Y., where Mr. Diamond was whacked, is certain that the deed was done by a couple of policemen.Right there, said Mr. Kennedy, 95, pointing to the spot in the bedroom where Mr. Diamond, after celebrating a not-guilty verdict in a criminal trial, was shot three times in the head in the early hours of Dec. 18, 1931.
#years #generations #square-feet #coney-island #puerto-rico #hardwood-floors #pulitzer-prize #guilty-verdict
[
add
]
[
|
|
...
]