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+ | '''NIGHT-SHIFT NEMESIS NABS NARCELLI''' - <span style="font-size:12px">''headline of Hudson City Times, April 23rd, 1962.<span> | ||
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+ | An anonymous vigilante made his big debut on the Hudson crimefighting scene in the spring of 1962 - and he knew how to make an entrance. The police found | ||
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+ | and Marco Narcelli, notorious underboss of the Danovicci crime family, hanging upside down from the rafters, tarred and feathered. Narcelli | ||
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+ | "''...man reportedly dressed in an '''owl''' costume foiled a bank robbery...''" | ||
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+ | "''...the would-be victim Fred Highfield, 46, described his rescuer as 'a '''ghost''''...''" | ||
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+ | "''...HCPD commissioner issued a warrant for the masked vigilante's arrest...''" | ||
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+ | "''...Lieutenant Roderick had this to say: "We don't care what 'good' he thinks he's doing. This Owlman, he gets caught breaking the law and he goes down - just like any other crook..." | ||
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+ | "''...another allegedly sighting of Hudson's very own '''Ghost Owl'''...''" | ||
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+ | ''Ghost Owl''. The papers gave him the name. Maybe not the name he'd have chosen for himself, but it would suffice. It stuck. | ||
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+ | His nocturnal activities ruffled the feathers of almost every major crime boss in Northside, particularly those of the notorious Mafia underboss Marco Narcelli, who filled the long, empty hours of his time behind bars plotting a revenge that, much like him, never got to see the light of day. |
Revision as of 20:52, 26 September 2013
But he wasn't alone. A kid in a hoodie, couldn't have been any older than sixteen, was huddled up against a nearby wall, shivering, not from the cold - he didn't even feel the cold, not now - but from the shock and horror of what he'd just seen. From the anger of allowing it to happen. It was a Christmas he'd never forget. Chances are, you know how it goes: a good man dies, a bad man lives, a newborn vigilante, angry, screaming, is baptised in blood. Old tale, played out a thousand times over. But it has punch. It resonates. And you have to make allowances for the classics.
Nevertheless, this time around it seems somebody got bored with the same old script, demanded a last-minute twist thrown in. So a sharp-eyed observer - not that there any other witnesses that night, sharp-eyed or otherwise - would have noticed the kid was clutching something, staring down at it with the sort of wide eyed disbelief typically reserved for first-time alien encounters. It was a .45 revolver, and it had five bullets chambered. A spent shell casing, still warm, lay in the snow not three feet away. No prizes for guessing where the rest would be found.
History
NIGHT-SHIFT NEMESIS NABS NARCELLI - headline of Hudson City Times, April 23rd, 1962.
An anonymous vigilante made his big debut on the Hudson crimefighting scene in the spring of 1962 - and he knew how to make an entrance. The police found
and Marco Narcelli, notorious underboss of the Danovicci crime family, hanging upside down from the rafters, tarred and feathered. Narcelli
"...man reportedly dressed in an owl costume foiled a bank robbery..."
"...the would-be victim Fred Highfield, 46, described his rescuer as 'a ghost'..."
"...HCPD commissioner issued a warrant for the masked vigilante's arrest..."
"...Lieutenant Roderick had this to say: "We don't care what 'good' he thinks he's doing. This Owlman, he gets caught breaking the law and he goes down - just like any other crook..."
"...another allegedly sighting of Hudson's very own Ghost Owl..."
Ghost Owl. The papers gave him the name. Maybe not the name he'd have chosen for himself, but it would suffice. It stuck.