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...well titled dock shattered his prediction, however. It was 11:20 before Judge Donahue freed on probation two men pleading guilty to 17 counts of larceny, sent a 19-year-old gas station burglar back to reform school, committed two men to a mental hospital, and returned a grateful man to his harrassed wife after fining him $200 for "indecent exposure...

Author: By David C. D. rogirs, | Title: "Hang' em all..." | 3/19/1952 | See Source »

Anger in the Pantry. In Pinckneyville, 111., after finding only 30? in a café's cash register, a burglar 1) smashed ten dozen eggs, 2) poured vanilla extract in the chile, 3) plastered hamburger against the windows, 4) dumped a sack of sugar into the silverware...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 21, 1952 | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

...professor was a wonderful burglar, but he and Francine got to fighting over such issues as who would pay the $150-3-month rent on their off-campus love nest. She spitefully threatened to expose his criminal career. Last July she even browbeat him into signing a confession. He sat down and typed out a list of his burglaries, blaming them on "neurotic individualism." Francine gave the confession to a Santa Barbara detective, who just as obediently kept a promise not to read it until she gave the word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: The Prisoner's Song | 11/19/1951 | See Source »

...economy of scenery. The action all takes place within a police station, and the motley group of characters who wander in and out afford excellent comic relief between the more dramatic scenes. Lee Grant and Joseph Wiseman, particularly, are exceptional as a frightened shop-lifter and a paranoiac burglar up for life...

Author: By Joseph P. Lorenz, | Title: The Moviegoer | 11/15/1951 | See Source »

Return Engagement. In Toronto, a burglar kicked in the window of a radio showroom, cut his leg, went to a hospital for treatment, returned to the radio shop, made off with a radio, a phonograph, several dozen records...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 15, 1951 | 10/15/1951 | See Source »

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