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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1956
Page
29
Handbags crafted from smooth calf leather priced at $15 to $795 feature leather lining and a variety of pouches swaggers vanity shoulder strap and box styles. Color range includes Briar Beech Cherry Red Navy Brown and Black.
An eighteen member grand jury indicted David Ryson 20 William Barbour 17 Lawrence Sykes 17 and James Soltan 16 on first degree murder charges for the Dec 7 killing of Boris Leschuk 52 a Winchester Repeating Arms plant janitor. Prosecutors say the group waited in darkness for a drunken man to rob him roll him and then brutalized him breaking his neck. The coroner called the crime unmatched in brutality. A first degree murder conviction carries a mandatory death sentence unless clemency is recommended.
In New Bedford Massachusetts on December 19 the Roosevelt and Normandia junior high cafeterias served about 2000 pupils a full rigged Christmas dinner for 25 cents per plate. The deal was made possible by profits from the cafeterias earned during the year. The article also notes Britannica’s claim that the original Mafia was formed by Sicilian landowners to subjugate peasants.
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