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fn the early 20’'s, Mr. DeCisclolo worked hard, invested all he could in Savings
Bonds, and today is the proud possessor of an attractive Cape Cod cottage.
Mmy Hoodlums,
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BY RICHARD KLEINER
NEA Staff Correspondent
When Freddie Horton was
about eight or nine — he doesn’t
remember exactly — he was sit
ting on the brownstone stoop out
side the old tenement he lived in
in Broecklyn.
He had a nickel in his fist. He
wasn’t sure whether he would in
vest it in candy or in a rubber ball
to play stoop-ball with. But he
didn’'t have a long debate, for a
gang of five or six older boys sud
denly swooped down the steps and
roughly shoved him aside.
The nickel rolled away and one
of the boys picked it up. Freddie
was crying whén another older
bey, who had witnesse dthe inci
dent, approached him a few sec
onds later.’ |
“Say, boy, that was real mean of |
them Robins to take your gold.”
The older boy sat down next to
Freddie. “What you should do is
become a Nit. When you’re in the
Exz, we take care of each other.
en mayhe we'll get that money
m}: '&om one of those dirty Rob-
Freddie had heard of the Nits
and Robins in a vague way. He
know they were kid gangs, and
that his block was mid-way be
tween the two i?g‘. home ter
ritories. And he knew that all the |
elder boys belonged to either one |
or the other. |
But that meeting was his first
actual contact with the gang. And,
a few weeks later, he had drifted
into the Nits. He firoudly bought
himself a blue pork-pie hat, with
a red feather in it, the symbol of
memberzhip.
Actually, he soon found that the
m:eally has no set members.
is a nucleus of about 20
boys to each gang. Then there are
p-tfi 50 to 100 more boys who
are st “part-time” members.
Freddie was one of those.
Nucleus
The Nucleus—and the gang—is
run by about four boys, “the
cligue.” There is a leader and
iwe or three lieutenants — called
“Age men”—but the real leader is
the war councilor. It is he who
meets with the other gangs’ war
councilors and arranges the site
and rules of gang fights, called
“rumbles.”
He is also responsible for mak
ing peace terms and setting ter
ritorial boundaries. All the lead
ers are chosen for a combination
of toughness and ability to ut
think the other gangs in “rumble”
strategy. Y ;
The “part-time” members, like
Freddie Horton was for several
vears, are merely called on in
case of fights. Sometires the lead
ers ask them to run errands, too.
In return, these boys get gang
protection.
Freddie soon discovered that it
was expected of him to have a
weapon, Some of the older boys
beught real pistols from pawn
sheps. Nowadays, they try to beg
or steal war souvenir guns. But
these who can’t still do what
Freddie did at first — they made
their own.
These so-called “zip guns” are
potent weapons at short distances.
Originally, the term came from
adapting a toy designed to launch
model airplanes, but it has come
to mean any home-made pistol.
They can be made from a va
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riety of materials, but the favor
ite is fashioned from pieces of
wood carved to look like a gun
barrel, with a piece of pipe just
the size to take a bullet—such as
automobile radio antenna pipe —
fastened on top with heavy tape.
Strong elastic bands and some
metal object, like a screen door
hook, provide the firing power.
The pipe has no rifling, of course,
so the zip guns’ accuracy is poor.
But they can fire; they can also
kill—and they have.
Cap pistols, too, can be convert
ed to take bullets. And the inven
tive kid gangsters long ago dis
covered that handles froma milk
cans and garbage pails made ef
fective substitutes for brass
knuckles,
Actual Criminals
Some gang members, Freddie
soon found, are actual criminals,
not just anti-social hoodlums,
They go in for muggings and
stealing cars and sometimes arm
ed robbery. But it isn't accurate
to assume that all gang members
are automatically criminals. The
majority, in fact, live within the
law, but there are a few in every
gang who don't.
Similarly, Freddie, like most of
the Nits, never used drugs. But
there were three boys he knew of
in the gang who did—they smoked
“reefers,” or marijuana. Drug ad
diction, police say, is on the rise.
Freddie and all the others smoked
cigarets, however, and they all
went for “sneaky Pete,” or whis
key.
It didn’t take the young, impres
sionable Freddie long to learn the
gang’s own vernacular, just as he
learned their peculiar habit of
walking with an exaggerated
limp.
Pretty soon, he was talking like
this: “Hey, citizen, how about in
vestigating a session tonight? I
hear they got some sneaky Pete.”
(Translation: Hey, friend, how
about going to a party tonight? I
hear they've got some whiskey).
And the answer might be: “Nabh,
they’e robbers and we might get
ventilated, dig me? And I ain’t
carrying a lighter.” }
(Translation: No, they're gang
members and we might get shot,
understand? And I'm not carry
ing a gun). - .
Gang fights, in which Freddie
particiapted, stem from two main
sources. First, if a rival gang be
gins dating some of the Nits’ “la
dies — giri iriends — that is an
open invitation to trouble. Sec
ond, any inter-gang incident, like
a school-yard brawl, will provoke
an outburst,
Scout Territory :
Then the Nits’ war councilor
would callr this gang fogethe
First, he’d usually order the op
position territory scouted. They'd
send a couple of girls or “Baby
Nits” to see what was brewing
in the other gang’s section, or _else
they’d race through in a taxicab
or stolen car.
The councilor might next de
cide on a quick raid, desxgrged to
beat up a few of the opposition as
an object lesson. Or he'd plan an
actual organized fight, in which
case he'd contact the other gang's
war councilor, under a truce, and
set up actual time and place and
rules for a full-scale war, :
Freddie finally quit the Nits,
when he decided they weren't
good for him. Since then, he and
his younger brother have been
threatened by his own gang as
well as the Nit's moral enemies,
the Robins. But he intends to stick
by his decision to remain outside.
Most of the gang members,
however, are in for life—or death.
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