November 2022 issue contents - Feature
Underworld abandons 'code of silence' as Rocco Racco is tried for murder
By Thomas Hunt and Margaret Janco
"The first few witnesses called by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania merely set the stage. They testified about the topography of the Hillsville, Pennsylvania, area and about relatively minor events on March 2, 1906, the last day that Deputy Game Protector L. Seeley Houk was known to be alive. It was late on Tuesday, September 15, 1908, when District Attorney Charles H. Young’s fifth witness, Scott Hoffmaster, foreman for the Pennsylvania Railroad, was called to the stand in Judge William E. Porter’s Lawrence County courtroom. Hoffmaster described his April 24, 1906, discovery of Houk’s body. Hoffmaster was at work that April day, when an engineer on a passing train reported seeing the body of a man lying in a backwater area on the south side of the Mahoning River east of Hillsville Station..."
Book page count: Thirty-six pages, including five sidebar stories, about four pages of notes and thirteen images.
Magazine page count: Twenty and a half pages, including five sidebar stories, about three pages of notes and thirteen images.
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