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Sonsky, a 27-year-old white hoodlum who openated in the Williams-
burg section of BYooklyn as a paid gunman, received a ae with
his friend, Norman 4eff, to kill a man named Henry Halpern who had
been muscling in on the policy, cabin aa ate loan shark rackets.
tn 1937, they were in Manhattan trying to locate Halpern in one of
has hangouts, and two detectives, James Garvey and Frank © “ieanons; be~
came suspicious of their actions and began following them. dust as
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Sonsky and Neff gave up the search for Halpern for the night, ne bwo
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officers approached theme they mistook the policemen for rival gang=
sters who were xxx going to attack them and Zeff shot both officers,
killing Garvey and seriously wounding Gleason, They escaped from the
scene of the crime and were newer suspected of Garvey'’s murder, Five
years later, both were serving a 6-to-12 year term at Auburn prison
for hijacking when they had an argument and Sonsky told prison offi-
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Cials that 4e f 1 Was the killer OL “Uarvey Vv aeili a atten npted tbo esc. {pe
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train as officers were returning him to New
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anid. was ghob, and mortally wounded. .pefore
confession in which"he state:
partner and admitted that he had been the eunmane Glea LON;
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