Word: burglarizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...lone bandit yesterday looted the home of Dr. John C. Wells, Jr., Associate Physician to the University Health Services. Entering Wells' home on Nightcap Lane in Weston, the burglar bound and gagged Mrs. Wells, two small children, and the maid...
Taking a grand total of $6 from the house, the bandit made his get-away in Mrs. Wells' ranchwagon, which was later found abandoned in Norumbega Park, Auburndale. The burglar apparently left no traces...
...Japanese women, upset over a wave of purse snatchings, Japan's Matsushita Industrial Electric Co. fortnight ago brought out a portable burglar alarm that is carried in the purse. A wire around the owner's arm sets off the alarm when the handbag is grabbed. Last week the company came out with something for the boys: electrified pants. The hot pants, which have heating wires woven into the fabric, are designed for desk workers in unheated plants; the pants are simply plugged into an electrical outlet. At $14 a pair, the pants went over so well that...
Sisters Superior. In Gulu, Uganda, when burglar Alexander Oolo broke into a convent, six nuns jumped him, knocked him down, tied him up and sat on him until police arrived...