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Ee) nie oh saad oe) «yf a ii Pa POLEYE - 44 In the street sense, Hoprye was an excellent judge of character and he knew Tony was the one to worry about. Tony had resigned his vice-epresidency in. the union and was no longer bound by their decisions. Sheila: “One day we : were driving down Mission street and we saw Popeye. All of a sudden he said: ‘I'm taking you home' and... he got a very strange look on his face. I said, | you're going to kill him huh? and he didn't say anything. You have every in- | tention of going and shooting Popeye in the street, don't you? Tony said: 'Yes, that's what I'm going to do... the man is ripping off the movement and he's threatened to kill my friends, threatened to kill me. You know he needs to die’. I began to argue with him..: mainly because I don't helieve in mur- dering people, no matter how rotten they are. Finally, I made a scene and got | hysterical so he gave up the whole plan.” Tony got busted for a large amount of heroin and was sent to Folsom where he Se ee soon got a threatening note from someone claiming to be a friend of Popeye's. It said he was going to be killed and was reinforced by information Tony got from black friends but he couldn't get to the source. Not knowing; who to Seared, and unfamiliar with the 10 VeeD Se At seem watch, he wag worried and confided in: Sheila. way it was in prison, she told the Varden who had Tony put in protective cus= $ tody. P/C is indistinguishable from the hole and it's not easy to get out. Reing in. the hole for a long period can bring on a terrible depression and it was in this mental state that Tony learned thet he had cancer. Hanging your- self in the hole is not easy; there's’ nothing overhead and you have to use the towel rack. You sit with your butt a couple inches off the bed and slowly strangle; Popeye didn't have to worry about Tony anymore. eT em sees Even the Miniater of Prinons had to ent and Popeyo wan huotling. Siater Jerry, t } !