Word: burglars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this point, the complicated amnesties available to the insane afford legal loopholes for the murderer. If it can be proven that the killer was crazy, and by the very promiscuity of his murders he is so branded, he will obtain special consideration separating him from the good, honest burglar who killed a man to escape capture. The Omaha sniper, if his case is cleverly managed, may be committed to a state lunatic asylum from which he can conceivably be released as "cured" when outward sings of abnormality disappear. Whereas the honest burglar with understandable motives for murder suffers the extreme...
...forever. And, unfortunately for him, there is a double exposure that blots him out of the picture. One night he creeps into the dark room where Gita is developing her image of Surgeon Geoffrey Pelham. Eustace falls back on the fallacy that passion breeds passion. Taking him for a burglar she pinks his shoulder with a Colt. That brings Surgeon Geoffrey into the house pretty often and he in turn brings Gita's endocrines into their own. One night while he rows her through the moonlit salt marshes she has to admit it. Compunction for Eustace is hardly in order...
...burglar comes...
...valuables is matched only by the professional light-fingered skill of one Nicholas King who returns on the same keeper that George takes. What with the accident and other excitement, the bags get mixed. King getting that containing the letters, and Howell that with a certain ruby necklace and burglar's tools...
...better prices, he investigated, at the request of President Wilson, inefficiencies in aircraft building during the War. Said he: "The man of position or wealth who remains passive in the public life going on about him is in the same class with the man who feigns sleep with a burglar in the room...