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...threatened any harm to the Queen or stolen any possessions. Under British law, trespass without causing actual damage or harming anyone is a civil matter and does not carry the risk of a jail sentence. Fagan was on trial for a burglary only in connection with his earlier, undetected breakin, which he confessed to police after his arrest. Yet to make the Burglary charge stick, the prosecution had to prove that Fagan had entered the palace with the intention of stealing something, a notion the jury rejected...
...Tuesday, April 17, two days after the dramatic weekend that first brought home to me the nature of Watergate, the President disclosed that a month earlier he had ordered a new investigation of the Watergate breakin; it had produced "real progress finding the truth." Contrary to his previous orders, White House personnel would now be permitted to appear before the Senate Watergate Committee; however, no wrongdoer on the White House staff would be granted immunity from prosecution. Some Nixon supporters were certain that the statement ended Watergate. The culprits had obviously been discovered; the matter could now be left...
...unhappy twist of fate, Melvin was shot to death by a policeman during the investigation of a breakin. Newark police call the shooting a tragic accident. Guardian Angel Founder Curtis Sliwa, 27, insists it was a "coldblooded killing." Contending that neither the police nor the local prosecutor could perform an impartial inquiry, Sliwa at week's end led his group on a march to Washington to demand federal intervention...
...slip on a pair of special gloves connected by remote control to a pair of mechanical hands that can perform surgery for him in a hospital hundreds of miles away. Fighting crime? The Advanced Robotics Corp. is advertising a mechanical sentinel that can speed to the site of any breakin, sternly ask an intruder, "What are you doing here?" and temporarily blind him with its spotlight while its siren calls for help...
...days after the breakin, Mendell, who according to one investigator had been "running from pillar to post" in an attempt to hide from Big Tuna's wrath, disappeared. His body turned up six weeks later in the trunk of an Oldsmobile on Chicago's South Side. His arms had been bound, his neck slashed and a rope tied next to the wound to slow the flow of blood. Explained one investigator: "They forced him to watch himself bleed to death...