Word: bluecoats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sirens moaned. Stoolpigeons were squeezed like grapefruit. No juice, no Willie. He was automatically suspected of pulling Boston's million-dollar Brink's, Inc. robbery in 1950. But, after two years had passed, many a bluecoat began to guess hopefully that the king of U.S. bank robbers must be dead. Then, one afternoon last week, an electrifying message clacked out on New York's police teletypes: Willie Sutton had just been arrested in Brooklyn...