Thanks for that! Bodenheim--yes, that's a name I know. The late Leo
Connellan, a fine narrative poet no one talks about, knew Bodenheim well
and was living in and around the Village when Bodenheim and the woman
were murdered. If I recall correctly Leo also knew the woman.
On 9/18/2012, "BRITISH-IRISH-POETS automatic digest system"
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>Topics of the day:
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> 1. John Riley (3)
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>Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:29:13 +0000
>From: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: John Riley
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>Back in Japan with a load of books. I picked up a great selected of John
>Riley from Carcanet--and found to my horror that this talent was
>murdered by two thugs.
>
>One of my students was divested of her money at Victoria station by
>suri--as we call pick pockets--this was literally like shaking down a
>child.
>
>All of which leads up to the question of how many poets do you know of
>who were murdered? Not talking about war, but lost their lives due to
>criminal activity, intrigues, street crime, etc...
>Chaucer
>Surrey
>Marlowe
>
>moderns?
>
>Jess
>
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>Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 06:48:50 -0700
>From: matt chambers <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: John Riley
>
>I can only think of Maxwell Bodenheim:
>
>Bodenheim and Ruth were murdered by a 25-year-old sociopathic dishwasher, Harold "Charlie" Weinberg, whom they befriended on the streets of the Village. He offered to let them spend the night in his room a few blocks from the Bowery. He was sexually attracted to Ruth, and the two of them became active on the floor near the cot where the 62-year-old drunken Bodenheim was supposedly sleeping. Bodenheim got up, challenged Weinberg and they began fighting. Weinberg shot Bodenheim twice in the chest. Ruth was beaten and stabbed four times in the back. Weinberg, taking advantage of the climate of McCarthyite repression, confessed to the double homicide, affirming that "I ought to get a medal. I killed two Communists."[3] He was judged insane and sent to a mental institution. Some[who?] believed Weinberg was moderately retarded.
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>--- On Tue, 9/18/12, [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> From: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: John Riley
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Date: Tuesday, September 18, 2012, 9:29 AM
>> Back in Japan with a load of
>> books.�� I picked up a great selected of John
>> Riley from Carcanet--and found to my horror that this talent
>> was
>> murdered by two thugs.
>>
>> One of my students was divested of her money at Victoria
>> station by
>> suri--as we call pick pockets--this was literally like
>> shaking down a
>> child.
>>
>> All of which leads up to the question of how many poets do
>> you know of
>> who were murdered?�� Not talking about war, but lost
>> their lives due to
>> criminal activity, intrigues, street crime, etc...
>> Chaucer
>> Surrey
>> Marlowe
>>
>> moderns?
>>
>> Jess
>>
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>Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 16:59:40 +0100
>From: Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: John Riley
>
>I am just wondering here how many poets do we know who were murderers?? (not
>me yet!)
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: British & Irish poets [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>Behalf Of [log in to unmask]
>Sent: 18 September 2012 14:29
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: John Riley
>
>Back in Japan with a load of books. I picked up a great selected of John
>Riley from Carcanet--and found to my horror that this talent was murdered by
>two thugs.
>
>One of my students was divested of her money at Victoria station by suri--as
>we call pick pockets--this was literally like shaking down a child.
>
>All of which leads up to the question of how many poets do you know of who
>were murdered? Not talking about war, but lost their lives due to criminal
>activity, intrigues, street crime, etc...
>Chaucer
>Surrey
>Marlowe
>
>moderns?
>
>Jess
>
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