Roosevelt Standard | 1924-12-03 | Page 10 | Lad Waits Six Years to Get Even with Boy

LAD WAITS SIX YEARS TO GET EVEN WITH BOY sought revenge on youth who shot his eye out with rifle new york for six years charlie butingaro twelve of no 44 eldridge street winced dally daily at the taunt of cockeye he told justice hoyt in childrens court but a sudden swift stab with his broken penknife had bad rid him forever of the humiliation his friends said eight years ago charlie and his chum leo pepe thirteen of no hester street were playing in the lat room pepe then lived in forsyth street under manhattan bridge an air rifle in the hands of leo went off accidentally it was explained and the shot hit and blinded charlies right eye resented cockeye fr two years later the boys entered public school no 05 65 and then some one no one knows who began calling the partly blinded charlie cockeye leo also used to call him that he said for six years this continued the boy explained to justice hoyt and he dreamed day and night of wiping out the appellation one friday his chance came he told the justice seeing pepe walk s 4 drove the blado blade into his back lag ing with tony tolly on hester street he ran up behind him and drove the broken blade of his knife into his back leo was not muth much hurt but since then no one has called charlie cockeye 1 I had bad to do it lie ho told justice hoyt the justice paroled him in his mothers care