Word: burglar-alarm
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...actually an advertisement paid for by ten Seattle restaurants whose names Watson dropped among the items. Possibly because the column rested on that highly dubious journalistic base, Watson at times stretched a grin into a guffaw. "Three noted ex-cons are busy about town putting together a burglar-alarm system," he wrote one day in 1956. "The guy who installs it is an expert-served in three state prisons for a total of twelve years-for burglary...
Last week as the case neared trial, crew-cut Emmett Watson. 40, made himself look even worse. He admitted that he "dressed up" a story he heard about how "an ex-con up for burglary was now installing burglar-alarm systems"; he could not explain why he wrote about three ex-cons instead of one. Ordered in superior court to identify the item's source, Watson would say only that he got it from "a prominent, respected law officer." He claimed no constitutional right, but refused to give the source's name because to betray a source would...
...foot of the establishment after closing hours. Under the noses of lax Brink's watchmen, he and his henchmen padded about the place in stocking feet, learning which way each door swung, locating the main vaults, honing their strategy. In their exacting research, the gang broke into a burglar-alarm company one night, and carefully studied the Brink's alarm system. Every lock barrel on every door along their route through the Brink's building was removed by the gang during their nightly visits, fitted with keys, and reinstalled in the doors before morning with such skill...
...Deposit Only. In Denmark, Wis., Bank President George de Broux, whose bank had been held up, insisted that his burglar-alarm system worked fine; the only trouble was that the guard's rifle ammunition was locked in a safe...
Dies leaped up with a roar, took the floor in his committee's defense. Afterwards he collapsed, was carried off to the hospital. The cause: strain from overwork. For rewinding his burglar-alarm committee, Congress coughed up $150,000, the largest Dies Committee appropriation...