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SURPRISE FOR THE BOYS
and then comes the Kossciuhowicz ... K for Karpis, O for Ossining, double S for Sing Sing, C for Capone . . .
Stewart. — Say, what are you tryin’ to give me, a build-up ?
Fallow. — All right. Stew, all right. I ain’t tryin’ to build it up, honest. Spell it any way you like. ... It don’t make no difference. Anyway, everybody up here calls him Kosky. . . . It makes things a lot easier.
Stewart. — I can imagine it would.
Fallow. — Twenty-nine years old. First-degree murder, Chemicville, last September.
Stewart. — Chemicville? Never heard of it.
Fallow. — Why, Chemicville is the biggest village in the state.
Stewart. — No foolin’ !
Fallow. — Kosky killed the landlord with an ice pick. He claimed the landlord dispossessed his old lady, and as a result she froze to death. No defense. Unmarried. No woman in the case at all . . . not even a wife. No appeal. And so help me. Stew, Kosky didn’t even ask for executive clemency.
Stewart. — Must be a queer duck.
Fallow. — You oughta see Kosky. A big lump of a guy who ain’t said two words since they showed him into the death house last winter. In all my three decays up here I never see a mug with less interest. Why, I bet you ain’t even got his murder in the clips. Think o’ that.
Stewart. — I am thinkin’ . . . and wonderin’ where the story’s cornin’ from. You’re not much help. Fallow.
Fallow. — I’m givin’ you all I’ve got. The only visitor he ever had was his sister. She came here this momin’ to say goodby, but the guards tell me they didn’t even talk . . . only held hands for a couple of minutes, and that’s all. That shows what a state prison man you’ve got in me. Stew. Tell this to Brady. Another reporter would o’ tried to build this story up . . . F’rinstance, Kosky worked in a chemical factory, and there could be an angle to that. ... You know, killin’ the landlord with chemicals, maybe . . . but with me the truth is the truth. I got a reputation to hold up. Stew.
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