Of the lot, the News prihe most striking picture: Holly, entering policeheadquarters, wedged between two muscular detectives, one male, one female. Inthis squalid text even her clothes (she was still wearing her riding e,windbreaker and blue jeans) suggested a gang-moll hooligan: an impression darkglasses, disarrayed coiffure and a Pie cigarette dangling from sullen lips did notdiminish. The caption read: Twenty-year-old Holly Golightly, beautiful movie starletand cafe society celebrity D.A. alleges to be key figure in iional drugsmugglingracket lio racketeer Salvatore "Sally" Tomato. Dets. Patrick orand Sheilah Fezzoi (L. and R.) are shown esc her into 67th St. Prect.
See story on Pg. 3. The story, featuring a photograph of a maified as Oliver"Father" OShaughnessy (shielding his face with a fedora), ran three full ns.
Here, somewhat densed, are the perti paragraphs: Members of café societywere stuoday by the arrest of geous Holly Golightly, twenty-year-oldHollywood starlet and highly publicized girl-about-New York. At the same time, 2P.M., poliabbed Oliver OShaughnessy, 52, of the Hotel Seabord, W. 49th St., ashe exited from a Hamburg Heaven on Madison Ave. Both are alleged by DistrictAttorney Frank L. Donovan to be important figures in an iional drug ringdominated by the notorious Mafia-führer Salvatore "Sally" Tomato, currently in SingSing serving a five-year rap for political bribery ... OShaughnessy, a defrockedpriest variously known in crimeland circles as "Father" and "The Padre," has a historyof arrests dating back to 1934, when he served two years for operating a phonyRhode Islaal institution, The Monastery. Miss Golightly, who has no previouscriminal record, was arrested in her luxurious apartment at a swa Sideaddress ... Although the D.A.s office has issued no formal statement, responsiblesources insist the blond aiful actress, not long ago the stant panionof multimillioherfurd Trawler, has been ag as "liaisoween theimprisoomato and his chief-lieutenant, OShaughnessy ... Posing as a relativeof Tomatos, Miss Golightly is said to have paid weekly visits to Sing Sing, and onthese occasions Tomato supplied her with verbally coded messages which she thentransmitted to OShaughnessy. Via this link, Tomato, believed to have been born inCefalu, Sicily, in 1874, was able to keep firsthand trol of a world-wide narcotidicate with outposts in Mexico, Cuba, Sicily, Taehran and Dakar. But theD.A.s office refused to offer aail on these allegations or even verify them ...
Tipped off, a large number of reporters were on hand at the E. 67th St. Prectstatiohe accused pair arrived for booking. OShaughnessy, a burly redhairedman, refused ent and kicked one cameraman in the groin. But MissGolightly, a fragile eyeful, even though attired like a tomboy in slacks aherjacket, appeared relatively uned. "Dont ask me what the hell this is about,"
she told reporters. "Parce-que Je ne sais pas, mes chères. (Because I do not know,my dears). Yes -- I have visited Sally Tomato. I used to go to see him every week.
Whats wrong with that? He believes in God, and so do I." ...
Then, uhe subheading ADMITS OWN DRUG ADDIiss Golightlysmiled when a reporter asked whether or not she herself is a narcotics user. "Ivehad a little go at marijuana. Its not half so destructive as brandy. Cheaper, too.
Unfortunately, I prefer brandy. No, Mr. Tomato never mentioned drugs to me. Itmakes me furious, the way these wretched people keep