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...course of the jamboree, 41 people were bitten by animals or human beings. A howling burglar was caught after he had run from the scene of his crime smack into a beehive. One policeman shot his wife in the leg and was himself knifed by another man. Another cop had his skull bashed by a man he had just saved from drowning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Spree | 3/6/1950 | See Source »

With scarcely a harsh word spoken and no show of disorder beyond a cut telephone wire, the fat burglar and the thin managed to filch 600,000 francs in bills from Engineer Henri Berger's office safe and persuade Henri to order another 6,000,000 sent over from the safe in his apartment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Polite Pair | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

...Methuen, Mass., the burglar who broke into Stanley Dimmock's house and stole a camera came back a week later for the flashgun attachment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 12, 1949 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...Light Touch. In Denver, before he made away with his loot of $19.50, a burglar apologized to Mrs. Gayle Friedrich, asked solicitously, "Will this leave you with enough ... to get along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 5, 1949 | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Competition. In Oklahoma City, Wayne Edwin Leverich, after being arrested for burglary, bemoaned to police the hard lot of the thief: only the night before he had tried breaking into a drive-in, but found another burglar already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 24, 1949 | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

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